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I was thinking about incentivising survey participants in virtual worlds, and looking at Second Life in particular, it couldn't be easier!
It took me about 5 minutes to add instant payment of an incentive to my prototype survey object, so when a respondent completes the survey, they are given the incentive payment on the spot - in my example I'm giving L$1 (1 Linden dollar) to the avatar after he/she answers the final question in the survey.

So the survey object can automatically handle inviting passing avatars, running the survey itself through the chat interface, and paying the respondent when he's done... I imagine this is a hell of a lot easier than managing incentive payments in real life.

You can read more background info on the Second Life survey prototype in my original post, or come and visit yourself - the object can be found on my island in Second Life (slurl). You'll even get paid for doing the demo survey! :-)