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Regulation of Virtual Worlds

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Co-hosted by UC Irvine School of Law and UCI Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds. Virtual computer worlds have become an emerging phenomenon in the current social environment. Formal regulation, informal agreement, private contract, economic incentives, and social norms all play a role. Millions of dollars change hands.

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

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Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. What you enter goes out to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and internally to our own social network.

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