by Justin Schier, Chief Creative Officer Dopamine Inc. @justinschier If you’ve never experienced the British TV phenomenon phenomenon known as Golden Balls, it’s worth watching a bit, even for kitsch value. Even though it went off the air in 2009, there are hours of it available on YouTube. It was basically a just-as-shlocky, slightly more sophisticated…
With millions of members from all over the world, Zoosk is already one of the most popular online dating communities. Now the company is adding some gamification elements to encourage more connection and improve the overall user experience. Considering that 75 percent of Zoosk users are under the age of 35, adding some game mechanics…
Hello GCo Readers! Here are this week’s additions to the GBase : Mangatar – an avatar creator with leaderboards and social features Tag Challenge – a worldwide manhunt used to research the possible effect of social media on national security AttendeeBee – a gamified conference application for attendees And remember folks! Any submission to…
This week on the Gamification Roundup: Aetna is giving away their Mindbloom wellness game, a 3D Printing platform gets gamified, Tony Vetrice covers what makes games addicting, and a RFID sensor game incentivizes workers to take the stairs. Check out the full roundup after the jump.
by Justin Schier, Chief Creative Officer, Dopamine Inc. Now that just about everybody has seen or read The Hunger Games, it’s time to take a look at just what makes the successful movie and book series tick, in light of what we know about gamification. It’s a futuristic heroine’s lonely struggle to master both a…
Hello GCo readers! Here are our latest additions to the GBase: Uplaude – a platform that lets sites or blogs add achievements and reward their visitors with an easy self-serve approach to gamification. SlimCast – a fitness app that helps people build long-term habits by turning weight-loss goals into a winnable game. GoJiyo – a virtual world…
Armed with a smartphone, anyone can be a reporter. This is the idea behind NewsiT, a mobile ‘crowd-reporting’ platform that uses gamification to make reporting the news a collaborative, social, fun and rewarding experience. Founded by experienced journalist Melinda Wittstock, who has worked for the Guardian, the Observer, ABC News, National Public Radio, and MSNBC, NewsiT is all…
This week on the gamification roundup, we’ve got some good news on new releases in the gamification world. Jive is rolling out an Advanced Gamification Module with Bunchball, Outbid is bringing social elements and gamification into the auction world, Energy Battle cuts energy consumption by 45%, Katie Salen talks about newly learned gaming principles for…
This week in the GBase we’ve added: Deskarma – a knowledge sharing solution highlighting employee achievements and rewards PHP Programming Innovation Awards – an award meant to encourage developers to submit innovative PHP components LiveFanChat – a media chat platform featuring achievements and badges We want you in the GBase too! Whether it’s a company you know of or…
Everyone loves a good deal, but what if you could also get the chance to win an even better deal? Throw in a sporting event, and you’ve got Squarz , a sweepstakes that uses gamification to add an extra element of fun to specials and promotions. Based on the popular sports pool Office Squares, every…
Red haired funny man, Conan O’Brien, recently introduced Late Night TV to Gamification with the unveiling of his new Team Coco tablet app. As Conan puts it, “Up until this moment your life has had little meaning, but I’m here to change all that. I’m here to present the incredible Team Coco tablet app.”
This week in the Gamification Roundup, we got a happy union of technology and gamification. BadgeVille has released a mobile SDK for their gamification platform. City Peaks uses RFID sensors to track workers’ stair ascents up buildings and AutoTutor is doing some impressive user analyzation to create customized teaching content for students. Top it all…
This week on the gamification GBase we’ve added: Achivy – A social media achievement aggregator BlogMutt – A crowdsourced blog writing service Plantville – A plant manager simulator We want you in the GBase too! Whether it’s a company you know of or even your own company feel free to add it to our GBase.
Dopamine Inc. Designs and Builds Revolutionary Live Infographics Platform by Justin Schier, Chief Creative Officer, Dopamine Inc. The February 2012 Social Media Week conference was recently held in 12 cities worldwide, bringing together 36,000 attendees in over 1,000 individual events. Social Media Week organizers Crowdcentric estimate that the event reached hundreds of thousands of people…
This week on the Gamification Roundup we have gamification enabling the opportunity to improve in a variety of ways. Gigya, which was once a widget company, has turned into a integrative social platform solution and now reaches a monthly user base of over 1 Bn. Prescription only iPad games have been developed for improving visual…
