{"id":596,"date":"2009-04-20T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-04-20T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T10:53:07","slug":"biweekly-links-for-04202009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-04202009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 04\/20\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/caterina\/3270176074\/\">singletasking: Caterina Fake<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/mmo-service-granted-banking-license\">Massively Multiplayer Online Game service granted banking license<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;MMO operator MindArk has been granted a banking license for its virtual world Entropia Universe, by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.\n<p>MindArk says the move will allow it to act as a central bank for all variations of Entropia Universe and integrate the in-game economies with the real world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an exciting and important development for the future of all virtual worlds being built using the Entropia Platform,&#8221; commented MindArk CEO, Jan Welter Timkrans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Together with our partner planet owner companies we will be in a position to offer real bank services to the inhabitants of our virtual universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Entropia Universe acts as a platform from which partners can launch virtual worlds within, with the focus being on microtransactions and virtual currency monetisation. &#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vonahn.blogspot.com\/\">Luis von Blog<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/nielsen\/\">here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>singletasking: Caterina Fake Massively Multiplayer Online Game service granted banking license &#8220;MMO operator MindArk has been granted a banking license for its virtual world Entropia Universe, by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. MindArk says the move will allow it to act as a central bank for all variations of Entropia Universe and integrate the in-game&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-04202009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 04\/20\/2009<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}