As part of our G-List – the who’s-who of the gamification space – we will be holding weekly Tweetups with some of the awesome speakers and guests of our upcoming Gamification Summit in New York. We will be holding a series of streaming interviews via Twitter. Follow @gamificationco for updates and submit questions with hashtag…
Two start-ups in gamification of health have merged to create Habit Labs and achieved an early round of funding. Buster Benson, creator of Health Month, 43 Things, and Locavore, has teamed up with Jen McCabe, founder of Y-Combinator backed health startup, Contagion, to get Habit Labs up and running. They already have a strong foundation with…
This week, Gartner updated their analysis on the hype cycle of various areas in tech to include gamification. The hype cycle measures new technologies from their first appearance in research, through media hype and criticism, and finally to the plateau of productivity. Where does gamification stand? According to Gartner, it is just finishing its initial rise. Expectations of the…
by Greg Caswell and Jeff Lopez Regardless of your political orientation, the last few months have been frustrating ones for American voters and citizens. The political system seems far removed from ordinary Americans; politicians are playing a game removed from the needs of many of their constituents because their primary goal is to win the…
On Monday in Philadelphia, I attended an event at Wharton on Gamification. There were some interesting people there, some classically hilarious exercises, lots of university professors “harrumphing” and pan-asian cuisine. In rare moments of non tenure-tracked clarity, I learned a few things, got to see some cool people and meet some of our new allies….
An updated look at Mario Herger, Senior Innovation Strategist at SAP Labs [SlideDeck id=’4246′ width=’100%’ height=’450px’]
As momentum around gamification grows month-by-month, company-by-company, demand for talented designers shows no signs of abating. Gartner Group has forecast that by 2015, 70% of the Global 2000 largest companies will be using gamification and M2 Research predicts they’ll spend over $1Bn annually in the US on the products, services and technologies to make that…
Beginning this fall, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania will host the first ever MBA-course on gamification as it applies to business. The class will be taught by Kevin Werbach, a professor of Legal Studies at the Wharton School, and Dan Hunter, a professor at New York Law School. They are supporting the course with…
This Wednesday, the BMW Guggenheim Lab opened to the public. Located in New York City, just north of Houston Street and the Sarah D. Roosevelt Park, the aim of the project is serve as a platform for positive interactions in city planning and to examine the spaces that we all share. The traveling lab includes…
As part of our G-List – the who’s-who of the gamification space – we will be holding weekly Tweetups with some of the awesome speakers and guests of our upcoming Gamification Summit in New York. We kicked continued the series interview between Brian Wong, CEO and founder of Kiip. Keep reading for the full interview, and be…
An updated look at Rajat Paharia, Chief Product Officer at Bunchball [SlideDeck id=’4153′ width=’100%’ height=’450px’]
I hate George Clooney. For a solid twelve months after “Up In The Air” was released, every Power Point deck at every trade show conference in the travel industry felt that it was their moral obligation to tie their presentation to a video clip from that movie. Yes, George was on an endless quest for…
We are fast approaching the second Gamification Summit to be held in New York on September 15-16, but we would like to step back for a moment to highlight some of the speakers that made our first GSummit such a success in San Francisco. Videos from the conference are now available online via FORA.tv with…
An inside look at Alix Levine, director of research at Cronus Global [SlideDeck id=’4092′ width=’100%’ height=’450px’]
As the first part of a series on gamification in Japan, we are sharing a translation of a post by by Koji Fukada and Tomohiro Uogishi from gamification.jp. Hi, folks! Today, let me explain about gamification elements implemented to “KAZASU Coupon,” a coupon distribution service of McDonald’s Japan. Kazasu Coupon is a membership-based service for those who have…
