facebook

Social Roulette and Assigning Values to Our Social Networks

Ivan Kuo13 years ago13 years ago26 mins

Social Roulette has a 1/6 chance of deleting your Facebook Existence. Well at least it used to until Facebook took down the app, according to an article posted by TechCrunch yesterday.

Social Roulette is a version of Russian Roulette: a game in which you place a single bullet in a revolver pistol, spin the barrel, and pull the trigger at yourself. If you’re unlucky, the single bullet will be in that chamber and subsequently send you into oblivion. Social Roulette is a play on this concept but instead of losing your life, you would only lose your all of your Facebook posts, pictures, and friends.

Cancer Research UK Hosts Hackathon to Build a Smartphone Research Game

Ivan Kuo13 years ago13 mins

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.

Enterprise

What Feedback Means in Gamifying the Professional Space

Ivan Kuo14 years ago13 years ago12 mins

The following is an Op-Ed by Adeyemi Ajao, Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Identified.com My dad is 83 years old and worked his whole life in finance. When I told him I was creating a company around “adding gamification to your professional life”, he honestly thought I was joking. “Games” and “professional” are not the first…

Experts

GList – Dan Porter: Secrets of ‘Draw Something’ at GSummit

Ivan Kuo14 years ago13 years ago02 mins

Today in our ongoing GList series, we’re featuring Dan Porter, CEO of OMGPOP and designer of Draw Something who will be giving a featured talk at GSummit in June. If you haven’t played it yet, Draw Something is the record breaking social game that’s now #1 on the worldwide charts (displacing Zynga) with 20 million new users in…

Enterprise

Weekly Recap: business edition

Jeff Lopez14 years ago13 years ago11 mins

This past week has seen the release of a flurry of articles around the web that highlight the business side of gamification. Following an updated announcement by Gartner that 70% of the Global 2000 organizations will have at least one gamified app by 2014, authors have raced to demonstrate how it has already taken hold in many different…

Health

Can Fleetly Stand Out Amongst Other Fitness Apps?

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago21 mins

There has been an influx of gamified fitness-based apps in the last year, all focused on helping users to lose weight, be healthier, live happier. Fleetly is a Canadian site that claims to make fitness “simple, friendly and fun.” Similar to sites like DailyBurn and RunKeeper, Fleetly uses social competition to motivate users and build…

Consumer

Coke Freestyle Makes Fountain Drinks Fun Again

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago31 mins

Coca-Cola recently announced a multi-media, fully interactive, campaign. Coke Freestyle lets you select your own unique flavor combinations from all of their brands (which I guarantee you is more than you think) and enjoy Coke in a whole new way. First off there is the Freestyle Facebook app, which simulates a vending machine that lets you pick…

G-List Interview: Daniel Debow

Jeff Lopez15 years ago13 years ago11 mins

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 it off with an interview between Daniel Debow, co-CEO and co-Founder of Rypple and our own Jeff Lopez….

Enterprise

Facebook Gets Gamified with Rypple Loops

Jeff Lopez15 years ago13 years ago11 mins

This week, Facebook announced that after a nine month pilot program, they will be using Rypple for internal review and communication. Facebook is already seen as one of the more satisfying place to work in the tech industry, and Rypple promises that their new service, Loops, will improve upon Facebook’s proven culture. We previously covered some of…

Enterprise

Loyalty for the Little Guys

admin15 years ago13 years ago21 mins

Loyalty campaigns have traditionally been the domain of big business (frequent flier plans, credit card points, etc). Except for the dominant model of buy-ten-get-one-free, campaigns are typically expensive and complex with entire agencies and businesses devoted to their design and operation. In today’s article from Econsultancy, our own Gabe Zichermann looks into “Gamification and small…

Experts

GSummit in Pictures: Tag, You’re It!

admin15 years ago13 years ago01 mins

For those of you who kept up with Twitter, you know that there were a lot of really cool pictures taken at the inaugural Gamification Summit (Jan 20), the VIP Pre-Party (Jan 19) and the Gamification Workshop (Jan 21). Many photos were posted in that realtime stream, but we have a lot more thanks to our…

Government

Gamification Law: FTC Guidelines

James Gatto15 years ago13 years ago17 mins

Ed Note: When it comes to social media, online interactions and gamification, many people often overlook how the law factors in. Working in an industry surrounded by ever-changing technology and innovation, legal precedents and regulations are also in a constant evolution in order to keep up. These laws exist to protect users, developers and business…

Consumer

InTheMo Gets You Moving

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago45 mins

If Yelp and GetGlue had a baby, it would probably look something like InTheMO, a new site (still in Alpha) that allows users to get & give recommendations of cool spots around the world. While there are a plethora of review sites for restaurants, clubs and the like, InTheMO specifically targets small social networks as…

Consumer

Social Media and Gamification Turns Readers into Reporters

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago13 mins

As social networks grow and evolve from audiences into dedicated communities, some news sources have begun to tap their online readership as volunteer investigative reporters. Journalists are now looking to their Twitter followers and Facebook fans for help in gathering research and information for news articles. This leads to a better source of material, as…

Consumer

Facebook Deals Takes Check-ins to the Next Level

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago02 mins

It was only a matter of time before someone created a location-based service that was directly linked to shopping. Even though apps like Foursquare and Gowalla are relatively new, it’s still surprising that it even took this long for us to have Facebook Deals. Once you sign up for Facebook Places, you can opt-into Deals….

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Test Post

What Feedback Means in Gamifying the Professional Space

GList – Dan Porter: Secrets of ‘Draw Something’ at GSummit

Weekly Recap: business edition

Coke Freestyle Makes Fountain Drinks Fun Again

G-List Interview: Daniel Debow

Facebook Gets Gamified with Rypple Loops

Loyalty for the Little Guys

GSummit in Pictures: Tag, You’re It!

Gamification Law: FTC Guidelines

Facebook Deals Takes Check-ins to the Next Level