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Geeking out with Weezer, virtually

One of the advantages to having a strategic partnership with Tommy Motolla is he'll get you a band to play in your virtual world.

I haven't spent much time on Planet Cazmo, but I love Weezer.

So if I watch geek rock on a virtual world, does that make me an uber geek?

 

Virtual Goods: the game changer

It looks like game dollars are shifting, not shrinking.
 
Video game sales revenue plummets 31 percent

while…
 
Virtual goods sales to hit $1 billion in 2009 as social games pay off big

Free South Park

Source: NewTeeVee

Given that kids and many adults are trending more toward YouTube than TV, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker and Comedy Central will split the ad revenue 50/50 on a new site - South Park Digital Studios – where you can watch every single South Park episode for FREE. While you can’t embed whole episodes on your blog you can embed clips like the one below and also make your South Park avatar. Heh. Cool.