On the virtual economy. No, this is not about the dot-com boom. This is about the trading of goods in online games, which has created an economy with a GNP per capita somewhere between Bulgaria and Russia. (More at New Scientist). via missing matter
Virtual game economy
I highlight the emergence of virtual game economies where trading digital assets resulted in a GNP per capita between Bulgaria and Russia. These early reports analyze how massively multiplayer games function as legitimate economic systems.