Gamification – integrating game dynamics into your site, service, community, content or campaign, in order to drive participation.
Margaret Wallace, chief executive of Playmatics and moderator at the the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab event on gamification, asked where gamification, or the use of game-play mechanics in non-game applications, is going next. In 15 seconds or less, the panelists answered.
Continue reading… “Five predictions on the future of gamification”
Trimper’s Rides has been operating continuously for 122 summers on Ocean City’s famous Boardwalk.
It;s not uncommon for customers at Carl Heimerdinger’s family retail store for customers to bring in scissors for sharpening that were purchased there decades ago by a parent or grandparent.
Continue reading… “Family run companies in the U.S. that have been around 100-plus years”
Deezmaker store’s $600 Bukobot 3D printer.
California’s first 3D printer retail store opened this past weekend. That brings the grand total of 3D printer retail stores in America (and maybe the world) to two.
Continue reading… “First 3D printer retail store opens in California”
Medical mistakes kill enough people each week to fill four jumbo jets
If there is even a minor airplane crash in the U.S., it makes the headlines. There is a thorough federal investigation, and the tragedy often yields important lessons for the aviation industry. Pilots and airlines thus learn how to do their jobs more safely.
Continue reading… “How do we stop hospitals from killing us?”
The shortage of data scientists is becoming a serious constraint in some sectors.
In June 2008 Jonathan Goldman arrived at LinkedIn for work, the business networking site still felt like a startup. LinkedIn had a little under 8 million accounts but that number was growing quickly. Users weren’t seeking out connections with the people who were already on the site at the rate executives had expected. Something was missing in the social experience. As one LinkedIn manager put it, “It was like arriving at a conference reception and realizing you don’t know anyone. So you just stand in the corner sipping your drink—and you probably leave early.”
Continue reading… “Data Scientist is the sexiest career of the 21st century”
Tactile sound engineering in action.
Sound in 3D is the next generation in “tactile” sound technology. It is poised to have a profound impact on the entertainment industry, including home theater, music production, movie production, education, and health.
Sound in 3D is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. This is your chance to experience Sound in 3D and many other amazing innovations.
Recently, inventor Robert LaDonne took a moment answer some questions about “feeling” sound frequencies and the potential sound therapy applications…
Continue reading… “Feel the noise with Sound in 3D”
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Quote of the Day: “It’s not that Good doesn’t triumph over Evil, it’s that the point spread is far too small.” – Bob Thaves
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Is the cool glow of a smartphone the sure sign of an addict?
What exactly do you do here, I’ve been meaning to ask. Because I’m the producer, right? I cook. But from what I can tell, you are just a drug addict! You are a pathetic junkie too stupid to understand and follow simple rudimentary instructions!” – – Walter White from the hit TV show “Breaking Bad.”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Addiction is a word seething with negative connotations. It implies that someone is out of control with their life, making bad decisions with their money, and placing everyone around them at risk.
Companies trade In hunch-based hiring for computer modeling.
When the Xerox Corp. was looking for workers to staff its call centers they used to pay lots of attention to applicants who had done the job before. Then, a computer program told the printer and outsourcing company that experience doesn’t matter.
Continue reading… “Big data is the new boss”
If you start a business, odds are that your company will fail.
It may look easy from the outside. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. But now there is evidence that venture-backed start-ups fail at far higher numbers than the rate the industry usually cites.
Continue reading… “Three out of four startups fail – a venture capital secret”
One of the characteristics of the modern media age is that we are surrounded by vast clouds of rapidly changing information, whether it’s blog posts or news stories or Twitter and Facebook updates. That’s great if you like real-time content, but there is a not-so-hidden flaw — namely, that you can’t step into the same stream twice, as Heraclitus put it. In other words, much of that information may (and probably will) disappear as new information replaces it, and small pieces of history wind up getting lost. According to a recent study, which looked at links shared through Twitter about news events like the Arab Spring revolutions in the Middle East, this could be turning into a substantial problem.
Continue reading… “Information decay is eating away our web history”
The new Middle East
There are remarkable and little-reported-on tech startup communities in the Middle East – from Cairo to Amman to Beirut to Dubai – and no one is rocking this scene more than the women entrepreneurs.
Continue reading… “Middle Eastern women at the center of a startup ecosystem”
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