Make something fun, and everyone is willing to play. The gamification of apps and teaching makes it more palatable for nearly everyone. It has been an-up-and coming trend, with games taking a more serious and education tone. Schools are increasingly investigating ways to enrich their content through games. Google Smarty Pins It was only a…
It’s no surprise that Google would create an amazing and elaborate April Fool’s joke that would seem so incredibly possible. What is this joke? Google created a game with Google Maps to catch Pokemon. It’s the stuff of every Poke-fanatic’s dream with the potential for a title of Pokemon Master, a fancy business card, and a job with Google.
The best part is: it may be only half a joke. An update for Google Maps has been released and will allow players to find Pokemon with an unlimited amount of Pokeballs while using Google Maps when they explore the terrain.
With the consistently sold-out success of our Certification Workshops at GSummit each year, we decided to add a workshop experience to the regular conference agenda FOR ALL ATTENDEES to participate it. We call them Hands-on Labs and they’re going to be one of the best aspects of this year’s event–guaranteed! Each of the 90-minute Labs will offer a limited group…
Who reps gamification the hardest on LinkedIn? This is part two in our series on “Gamification” in Linkedin. See part one here: Why Gamification Should Be in Your Linkedin Profile. Ever wonder which companies have the most employees interested in gamification? Well, the research is done and we created the Infograph below to show you….
A great deal of research has been done examining how game based learning has been used with phenomenal success in the world of education to enhance students’ learning experience and now more and more research is being done on how the corporate world is utilizing game based learning to increase job satisfaction, enhance training programs, improve productivity, increase sales, and ultimately drive profits.
Chrome Experiments is touted as a showcase to demonstrate creative experiments using emerging web-technologies like HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. According to TechCrunch, a new experiment has just emerged from Google Japan that will enable you to turn any desktop website into a 3D maze that could also be controlled by your smartphone.
As we continue with our Best of 2012 Series, we look at some of the top gamification articles in 2012 to engage with consumers. 2012 proved to be an interesting year as more and more companies are choosing to adopt gamification in unique ways to engage with customers. As the industry saturates in 2013, these techniques will have to refined and reiterated and keep up with some of the best examples we see here today.
I personally haven’t seen any real compelling uses for augmented reality outside of laggy “monocoles” to find restaurants and pretending to see a 3D shape on a checkered pattern. However an internal startup at Google called Niantic Labs, led by former Google director John Hanke, has come up with an augmented reality game called Ingress…
When facing an engagement crisis, companies can turn to gamification to help invigorate user interest and participation. As the top cheerleader for the use of gamification, we’ve encouraged this phenomenon and have tried to lead companies to answers for their engagement needs through our articles and GSummit events, but always with one essential caveat: applying…
I’m super stoked to announce a new slate of additional speakers for GSummit (June 19-21 in SF). The event just keeps getting more exciting, and I’m sure you won’t want to miss the hands on workshops and 40+ sessions. Also, the early bird deadline is fast approaching next Friday; if you want to save $300…
This year’s SxSW has been even more festive than years past, with the alternating rain and sun driving social media hordes in and outdoors over the weekend. In between bouts of over-drinking, endless parties, sponsored taco trucks and coffee “scrums”, there were some interesting sessions at the conference on the topics of gamification and engagement….
Last week, Google added Google News Badges to their news page. In line with other efforts to personalize your news feed through Google+ and +1, Google News Badges allows users to easily keep track of the different topics they follow within the daily newsfeed. There is still room for possibility, but Google News Badges does…
Throughout Earth Month in April, Recyclebank hosted an online game, the Green Your Home Challenge. Visitors interacted with virtual rooms to learn how to be more environmentally conscious and implement new “green” changes in home and lifestyle. Players were also given rewards, challenges, and leaderboards as well as bonuses for referring new players. Recyclebank teamed up with ROI…
After their highly popular gamified Les Paul landing page last Thursday, Google has created even more play time. With science! The longest lunar eclipse in a decade began earlier today (still in progress) and though it was wasn’t visible to those of us in North America, now everyone can enjoy the sights. Visitors can witness…
Today is Les Paul‘s birthday, and the Google landing page has an interactive sound board in memoriam of the jazz guitarist and father of the electric guitar. The page is fun to play around with and lets you record your song with a shortened URL to send to friends. Similar to the piano stairs, Google has made a…
