GSummit 2012 Behind the Scenes: Sunny Lee

(5/26 Gamification Expert Interviews Unlocked)

Every week until GSummit SF 2013, we’ll be unlocking some special content from last year to give you a preview on what to expect this April 16 – 18.

Watch Sunny Lee discuss the future of credentials and recognition with Mozilla’s Open Badges project:


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Gamify your Media Through Interactive Storytelling app, dio

Are you getting tired of sending and receiving pictures from family and friends? Are you ready to step it up a notch? Let’s try sharing experiences instead.

The creators of Second Life, Linden Labs, have introduced the beta phase of dio. This new interaction creator allows you to gamify your pictures, videos, other media for fun to share with people you already know or with the public. Users can upload pictures and create adventures from them with a  similar feeling to tabletop RPGs.

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Cancer Research UK Hosts Hackathon to Build a Smartphone Research Game

This past weekend, top developers at Facebook, Google and Amazon Web Services joined research academics and public attendees for a Cancer Research UK hackathon to utilize crowdsourced genetic data and turn it into a smartphone game, tentatively called GeneRun.

The hackathon’s goal is to produce a game that makes use of crowdsourced “citizen scientists” (a la Fold.it) to quickly interpret and analyze data that will facilitate research for cancer drug interventions.

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