It’s All Money: Virtual Currency Inspires Online Workers ...

Last October, we pointed out an interesting new type of offer in social games : players who wanted to earn virtual currency could click on an in-game offer by Gambit , a virtual goods monetization company, which would send them to complete real work for real-world companies.

We recently caught up with CrowdFlower , the company that assigns the workers to their tasks, to see how the ...

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Gambit Launching Virtual Currency Monetization Service for ...

Virtual currency monetization and payments are hot on the Facebook Platform right now, and Inside Facebook has the exclusive on a new startup that is helping social network...

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Crowdflower and Gambit: Is this Child Labor for Virtual ...

Crowdflower and Gambit are offering sponsored promotions for gamers to earn virtual currency via cloud-based labor. While the program sounds like a great idea, the pitch we received specified that promotions would help "monetize younger users". It will be interesting to see how parents react to these promotions.

In order to protect their kids, many parents seek out age-appropriate web content like ReadWriteWeb's list of kid-friendly resources . Others opt for tools like CYBERsitter that offer parental controls over web filtering software. While most of these tools protect against worst-case-scenarios, few...

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