Posts Tagged ‘social’

Goalfinch is a goal setting tool built on a principle that economists have known for centuries: incentives matter. If there’s a goal you want to accomplish, you have the best chance of succeeding when there are incentives in place to reward you for getting it done. Goalfinch helps you create incentives to accomplish your goals.

You start by defining a goal, picking a deadline (all good, measurable goals have deadlines), and inviting some of your Facebook friends to verify whether or not you accomplish your goal. Then you make a financial contribution to Goalfinch. This money is “on the line” until you either reach or fail to reach the goal. It’s an additional incentive to motivate you to go out and get it done.

When you reach your goal, your friends should sign in to Goalfinch and confirm that you have succeeded. By default, Goalfinch won’t count your goal as successful until all the friends you invited come to the site and do this. If you succeed before the deadline, congratulations! Goalfinch will send your contribution back to you. If you fail, however, Goalfinch will donate the money to a charitable or non-profit organization (you can select one while defining your goal).

You also have the option to distribute your contribution proportionally: For each friend that confirms you’ve completed your goal, we’ll return a portion of your money to you, up to the full amount. For example, if you invite three friends to verify your goal but only two of them confirm that you complete it, you’ll get two thirds of your money back. The rest will be donated.

You can find all the information at http://goalfinch.com

MingleBird is a mobile socializing application that makes meeting people a snap. Played at social or business gatherings where “ice breaking” can be a chore, MingleBird makes mingling and networking fun. Using the iPhone app, players seek out assigned “connections” at events to win points and prizes, all while developing valuable social and business relationships.

You can find further information at http://www.minglebird.com

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has relased a game for next Sunday’s 83rd Academi Awards ceremony.

Basically, the application let users make their Oscar predictions and compete with their friends, then stay up-to-date on Academy goings-on all year long. During Oscar season, access complete Nominee lists, insider information on each film, viewable trailers and more. Make a prediction in each category, compare with your group of friends and share your picks through Facebook, Twitter, text and email. Real-time scoring lets you see how you scored against your group and the rest of the community. YEAR-ROUND: Find out about all the other official Academy events, and get the latest Academy news and updates throughout the year. Download the one and only official Oscar app from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

You can dowload the application from the App Store are: http://itunes.apple.com/es/app/the-oscars/id354102052?mt=8#

Definitely, a nice example of using directed gamification to get users installing a much wider purpose application. What do you think?

‘Who Knows?‘ (clic on the Facebook logo inside the application to play) is a simple Q&A game in the style of ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’. The questions are automatically generated from DBpedia content.

The purpose is the evaluation of some heuristics that are used to determine a ranking of facts within a knowledge base such as e.g. DBpedia.

You can find the whole blog entry at http://moresemantic.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-knows-semantic-web-game.html

Jume is a service that helps users get things done socially. It offers fun and interactive way to discover and get your grind out of the way.

When you start doing things in Jume, you will quickly notice:

• Motivation: How your friends and social circle motivate you to get things done faster.
• Participation: How your friends participate in real-life to help you complete your tasks.
• Learning: How you can gain more local knowledge to get things done.
• Socializing: How you’ll find new people with similar interests around you.
• Saving: How you can save with cool offers and discounts offered to applicable tasks.

In fact, this is how jume.in works:

You can find all the information at http://jume.in