Since its inception in 1999, Cricket Wireless (@Cricketnation) has been an innovator in wireless-communications in the United States. It was a pioneer in providing pre-paid, unlimited voice-and-data services. In 2011, Cricket became the first wireless provider in the country to include unlimited music in a rate plan. To address a perceived need for better ways…
Qstream Powers AMS Employee Knowledge Retention American Medical Systems (AMS) has found a new way to boost employee engagement for sales personnel by using a gamified application called Qstream (@qstream). The app aims to improve employee engagement by presenting employees with challenges and rating their responses on a company-wide scoreboard. The Problem AMS was trying to solve a…
Creative Mobile App Imagined by Daughter And Built By Dad Have you been trying to improve your parenting and spend more time with your kids? A new gamification startup, Mini Hug, may be able to help you become a better parent. Available for free from the App Store, Mini Hug (@MiniHugApp) is an app for parents and their children…
Mango Health Improves Adherence to Medication with Gamification Mango Health (@MangoHealth) offers a new type of game in the health field – one that aims to help users remember to take their medication. Former executives from the ngmoco, a mobile gaming company, wanted to create an application that would help people remember to take their medication. The…
Learn English By Reading Your Tweets And The News While children start learning their first language with basic words, more research is showing that adults learn a new language faster when they start with relevant words and phases used in their everyday conversations. Game-based learning can help stimulate the mind to recall these new words and…
Getting More People in Mazda Driver Seats To launch the 2014 Mazda3, Mazda Canada and their agency, JWT partnered with Cineplex Odeon theaters and Timeplay to create the world’s first dual screen in-cinema driving game that leveraged the mobile accelerometer. Their social driving game turned every phone into a wheel, and every seat in the…
Groundbreaker is a gamified stockmarket of potential startups. It’s the bridge between good ideas and real profitable businesses. A simple and effective tool to quickly develop your ideas and have fun! It’s innovation for all. By definition, the word “groundbreaker” means “a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity”. But, from…
Get Rewards For Going Green With climate change consistently making headlines in recent news, making efforts to go green seems more important now than ever. Making the right choices in regards to the environment can be challenging for those who do not have extensive knowledge in the area. Thankfully, developers have created a new mobile…
Gabe talks to Livecube‘s co-founder and CEO Aaron Price about Livecube, the app that engages audiences at events. Livecube gives people a better way to participate in conversations around online and off-line events by gamifying these interactions.
Watch the full webinar below to learn how Livecube is a great way for people to engage with the speakers and other attendees through social media.
The British Library warned: by 2020, legacy content will remain undigitized and in danger of becoming inaccessible to future generations.
Universities, libraries, museums and archives own large amounts of undigitized material in the form of photographs, audio recordings and films that are at serious risk of being lost because of the wear time has put on them. Some are well-documented and just need to be digitized and tagged accordingly, but the problem is that a lot of the materials have little to no description in them. The job of tagging them requires collective input by multiple people to guarantee that the tags are as comprehensive and impartial as they possibly can. It a costly and time consuming task, and it cannot be accurately done by recognition software.
The task of proper tagging is of utmost importance for future access, so is there a way we can motivate people to contribute to the preservation of legacy content while we still have time? Well, games of course!
A new type of toothbrush is looking to change the health world. Kolibree, a French startup, has developed a Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush that connects to your smartphone or tablet, tracks and displays your brushing habits, and allows you to compete for being the best brusher of teeth in the family!
Memrise.com is emerging as one of the best language-learning online web tools. Although Memrise could hypothetically be used for any type of memorization, it specializes in language learning and in particular, vocabulary retention. In order to engage users, Memrise uses gamification techniques that keeps users coming back to learn more.
The release late last year of the Playstation 4 and its launch titles, such as Knack, were greeted with a great deal of hype and a great deal of sales. For many, successfully launching a new gaming generation rests on the ways new platforms can innovate, evolving games to be entertaining in ways were never imagined before. Typically that means better processing power, new controller inputs, or even more technology integrated into the system. Yet, for the past few years, tech start-up Knack.it Corp has slowly progressed an entirely different sort of platform, one focused on innovating and evolving games in radically new ways. Not for entertainment, their games are for the gamification of business hiring.
This other Knack, founded in 2010 by entrepreneur Guy Halfteck, uses games to identify skills and talents (playfully called knacks) in their players.
Branch Banking and Trust Corporation (or BB&T) is a North Carolina-based bank that operates in more than 1,800 financial centers across the United States. Their services include commercial and retail banking as well as insurance, investments, mortgage, corporate and consumer finance.
BB&T has recently proved to be innovative through the addition of a mobile gaming application into their employee training program, with the purpose of teaching valuable leadership skills based on the premise that Beliefs influence Behaviors, which lead to Results, which influence beliefs, and it cycles on…
No matter where you travel in the world, one thing is consistent: taxis suck. They frequently don’t know where they’re going, they try to rip you off, driver’s often have trouble communicating, and credit card acceptance is more rare than a unicorn. Against this context, a number of startups have made great inroads in transforming livery transport. Uber and Lyft are probably the most famous – though their approach has been to replace taxis entirely rather than work with existing systems. GetTaxi, however, aims to empower their drivers in a way not seen before.
