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July 11, 2011 • 8:02 pm 0
SVI Hackspace Hackathon #2 July 17th
We’re launching round two of the SVI Hackspace hackathons. We had a great turnout and got some good feedback from the last round, and we’re looking to host an even larger one this round. The signups are running out fast so grab one quickly if you still can! Hope to see you there!
John YS
Filed under: Silicon Valley, Stanford, SVI Hackspace
July 10, 2011 • 3:48 am 0
Game Layers and Gamifications
A great talk by Seth Priebatsch:
A seed for this post has been sitting in my drafts for the longest time. I originally titled it “Seth Priebatsch’s ‘Game Layer:’ The Next Step in Social,” but I feel that since then, gameificiation has just become another Silicon Valley buzzword. I figure that it is better to write a short post than never have one at all. The “game layer” that Seth Priebatsch talks about is truly seeping into everything (not just SCVNGR) from credit cards and Foursquare to Facebook “engagement.”
The crossover between “real” and “game” becomes especially interesting when you also see Jane McGonigal‘s Ted talk on a more altruistic application of similar principles:
Seth Priebatch’s gets my business mind going faster than anything else, but while I think some of the examples in Jane McGonigal’s are weaker than I would hope, I believe the ideas she has in it are some of the most powerful and intuitively innovative I have thrown around in my head recently. At some point in the near future, I would be thrilled to have a chance to cross paths with these two visionaries and delve deeper into their thought processes.
Filed under: Tech Trends
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