gCommerce is “Game-ified Commerce and eCommerce.”
There are two parallel evolutions occurring in the marketplace:
1. Commercializing Game Worlds: the commercialization and economization of game worlds.
2. Gameifying Commercial “Worlds”: the game-ification of of everything else– social media, retail, publisher sites, etc.
Both arguably have the same aim, it seems: loyalty (or addiction) and commercial transactions.
They both share similar [...]
22 October 2009 – 10:16 am
File under: Crowdsourcing language.
Very cool new Addictionary feature. Take any bit of video and challenge the Addictionary audience to coin a word or phrase to describe it. Check it out:
12 October 2009 – 8:51 am
Love this feature of the Addictionary. Wordemocracy in action.
All A-Twitter About Geo
We’ve probably all seen a version of this announcement by Twitter.
This is a significant announcement, and further validation of the gigantic opportunity in cracking the nut of location-based social media and advertising.
Two notable paragraphs, IMHO:
The ramifications or opportunities between linking twitter and geo-location are many, and will surface over time. Location-based [...]
I’ve been kinda quiet for the last… oh… almost 6 months now. Coupla reasons for that:
1. I’ve been BUSY!
2. SpectrumDNA (http://spectrumdna.com) has been pumpin’, and I haven’t been able to take my hand off the handle for too long (and it gets the blog posting priority… or has for a while)
and
3. We’ve [...]