Category: Currency

More Money, More Art: 32 Currency Creations

Recommended by elsterama on July 25, 2011 via WebUrbanist

[ By Steph in Architecture & Design. ]

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Pop-Cultured Currency: Art of Defaced US Dollars

Recommended by elsterama on July 20, 2011 via WebUrbanist

[ By Delana in Gadgets & Geek Art & Graffiti & Drawing & Guerilla Action & Art. ]

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Landing good remote workers in an ailing economy

Recommended by elsterama on July 19, 2011 via WebWorkerDaily

Last week, Jessica tackled the question of what remote web workers should be paid. But this question also has implications on the other side of the equation, for the freelancer.Continue

Gamers Can Now Buy Facebook Credits in 32 More Currencies, Including the Chinese Yuan

Recommended by elsterama on July 1, 2011 via Inside Facebook

Today Facebook announced that Facebook Credits can now be purchased in 32 additional currencies, including the Chinese Yuan, Korean Won, Israeli Shekel, and Singapore dollar, bringing the total number of supported currencies to 47. Facebook also plans to up the number of alternative payment through which users can pay for the Credits to 50.Continue

Quickly Estimate How Much Money's in Your Change Jar by Weight [Tricks Of The Trade]

Recommended by elsterama on May 23, 2011 via Lifehacker

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Facebook Sets July, 1, 2011 Deadline to Make Credits Sole Canvas Game Payment Option

Recommended by elsterama on January 24, 2011 via Inside Facebook

Starting at its developer conference last April, Facebook has been saying publicly that Credits would eventually be the only payment option in social games on the site (although it started saying so to developers Continue

Second Life Economy At Record High

Recommended by elsterama on April 28, 2010 via ReadWriteWeb

The world economy may still be firmly in the toilet but the economy inside the virtual world of Second Life is doing fine. Better than fine, in fact. Q1 of 2010 was a record-breaker.

In a post on the Second Life blog, Tom Hall, Chief Product Officer for SL owner Linden Labs, said user-to-user transactions in the immersive world spiked 30% over last year to $160 million, breaking all previous company records. Continue

Jambool Talks About Localized Currencies, User Statistics and Fraud

Recommended by elsterama on March 12, 2010 via Inside Facebook

Jambool, the payments startup that offers in-game payments on Facebook through a product called Social Gold, recently announced that it has begun offering international currencies for players in other countries.Continue