Stephen Totilo of Gizmodo isn’t completely sure how he feels about gamification, but he certainly hates cheaters. In his recent post called “You’re All Liars“, Totilo writes about how he became a frequent user of the check-in apps Foursquare and MyTown, the issues that arose as the apps changed to combat cheaters, how he himself…
Gabe Zichermann participated a great deal in Social Media Week, New York. On Monday he gave a talk at Time Inc. called “The Year of Gamification” where he discusses the trends we can expect to see in 2011 and the possibilities for the future of gamification. You can see the presentation slides here. He was…
The most logical solution isn’t always the most emotionally successful. This article by Angela Self in the Globe and Mail about reducing debt brought up an interesting idea about achievement as motivation that closely mirrors what we know about gamified design. While trying to find a way to get out of debt across multiple credit…
In this recent post on the Cisco blog, Dannette Veale uses common examples to help illustrate what gamification really means – like Foursquare, Quest to Learn charter school, Evoke and Wii Fit. She also quotes Gabe Zichermann and his now famous SAPS model for rewards systems. The article also mentions GSummit and how it sold…
Gabe Zichermann has a new op-ed piece on The Huffington Post that just went up today. It’s called “Can Games and Gamification Fix Washington?” It’s about how the many issues that are currently plaguing the US often seem too vast and overwhelming for any real change to occur. Gamification can be used to engage an…
Ed Note: We’re initiating coverage today on the Gamification of Health, the most requested topic among our readers and a subject of extraordinary importance to us at Gamification.Co. Feel free to send us your article suggestions. – Gabe Zichermann Full-service gyms are currently going through hard times in the US. According to a recent New…
Gabe Zichermann was featured very prominently in an article for The San Francisco Chronicle by Casey Newton that was released this past Tuesday. In the piece, entitled “Online game-based marketing can be big business“, Gabe projects that 2011 will be the “year of gamification”, shares his thoughts on why games are so hot right now…
Why waste time waiting for the bus when you can be scoring points for your ‘hood instead? January 28th marked the end of Yahoo! Bus Stop Derby in San Francisco. 20 Muni bus stop shelters were outfitted giant, 72 inch touch-screens where travelers-in-waiting can play one of 4 games. All the games were less than…
Experts Exchange is a site dedicated to bringing better IT assistance to the world through competitive gamification. Founded back in 1996, Experts Exchange invites knowledgeable techies from all over the world to answer questions from users in need who assign a point value to their query. A leaderboard keeps constant watch over the top experts…
Gamification has gotten increasingly more present, but it’s also been getting more “meta”. Many game consoles have been using gamified gaming for sometime now. Both XBox 360 and PS3 have achievement and trophy systems (respectively) where players can unlock special acheivements that are supplemental and complimentary to the games their playing. These motivators work equally…
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Gabe Zichermann was a guest today for BBC World Service Podcast: Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson on the social media episode. Gabe chats with Gareth and Bill about what makes a successful loyalty program, whether or not we should be concerned with over-saturation with gamification and, of course, how excited he is…
I was recently interviewed by Sharon Panelo of JWT Intelligence for this really great piece that came out online yesterday. We discussed how marketing is changing, how brands in every category can use game mechanics to increase engagement and The Gamification Summit that’s happening next week! Our talk was a lot of fun and I’m…
