A node between the physical and digital. The rants and raves of Simon Wardley. Industry and technology mapper, business strategist, destroyer of undeserved value. "I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice"
... necessarily real.
So I've picked up from O'Reilly radar a conference on Virtual Goods.
For anyone who has any doubts about how big a market this is, I'll just pick one trivial example - Gold farming.