Social photo sharing is currently one of the hottest services out there. Instagram and Pinterest are immensely popular and excellent for sharing pictures but what if these services began to offer more than just sharing? What if the images you were sharing were also proof of your new healthy habits or most recent endeavors? Leap [...]
Archive for the ‘Cool Companies’ Category
Start the Social Group Challenge Trend with Leap
February 22nd, 2012 
Ivan Kuo 
Posted in Cool Companies, Gamification 
Tags: instagram, leap, pinterest, social group challenges 
No Comments »
Badgeville Joins Enterprise Gamification Race with Cloud Connectors
January 26th, 2012 GabeZ Enterprise gamification (aka using game thinking and mechanics to engage employees and partners) is getting more interesting every day. Following on the heels of Bunchball’s moves to connect gamification platforms to major enterprise software, Badgeville today announced a unified enterprise connector initiative. Cloud Connectors makes official their longstanding connection with Omniture, and adds Jive and [...]
Posted in Cool Companies, Gamification Tags: Badgeville, bunchball, enterprise, enterprise gamification, hr, jive, omniture, SalesForce No Comments »
Whaiwhai Turns Tourism into Adventure
November 28th, 2011 Jeff Lopez I’ve done a lot of traveling. Although I am often a picture-taking tourist hopping from one site to the next in rapid succession, one of my favorite things to do is hear the stories and learn about the local rhythms of wherever I am. There is no substitute for immersion, but it usually takes more than the one [...]
Spigit’s FaceOff Gives Consumers the Power to Choose
November 23rd, 2011 Jeff Lopez With a new gamification offering, Spigit, a company specializing in using social technology and the power of crowds, looks use a game to engage their customers while at the same time generating new ideas. Unlike being forced to sit through Nicholas Cage’s film of the same name, Spigit’s FaceOff offers consumers the chance to be brand consultants and [...]
Samsung Among the First to Innovate with Badgeville’s Behavior Platform
November 8th, 2011 Jeff Lopez Last week, Samsung was among the first to announce integration of Badgeville’s new behavior platform in Samsung Nation. Samsung has put their weight behind the rollout. Rather than gamify one marketing campaign or a single product site, the company brought gamification into the forefront and integrated the new features throughout the US corporate site. Leaderboards, badges, [...]
Posted in Cool Companies, Gamification Tags: Badgeville, behavior platform, Gigya, Kris Narayanan, samsung, Samsung Nation, Social Fabric 3 Comments »
Bunchball Brings Gamification to Jive Social Business
October 5th, 2011 Jeff Lopez Along with the keynote at today’s JiveWorld2011, gamification is making a big splash. Platform company Bunchball announced that they will be integrating their Nitro platform with Jive in order to bring game mechanics into the leading social business software platform. Jive combines collaboration software, community software, and social applications, and makes for an easy fit for [...]
Posted in Cool Companies, Events, Gamification Tags: bunchball, Gamification, jive, jiveworld2011 No Comments »
Can Fleetly Stand Out Amongst Other Fitness Apps?
October 4th, 2011 Danyell Thillet There has been an influx of gamified fitness-based apps in the last year, all focused on helping users to lose weight, be healthier, live happier. Fleetly is a Canadian site that claims to make fitness “simple, friendly and fun.” Similar to sites like DailyBurn and RunKeeper, Fleetly uses social competition to motivate users and build [...]
Posted in Cool Companies, Gamification Tags: app, badges, challenges, community, DailyBurn, exercise, facebook, Fitness, Fleetly, health, iPhone, leaderboards, medals, points, RunKeeper, social media, workout 2 Comments »
Stand Taller, Feel Better – with LUMOback
September 23rd, 2011 Danyell Thillet Chronic back pain is a issue that affects the vast majority of Americans, whether your job is physically intensive or working at a desk. In fact, if you’re reading this on your computer right now, you might want to check your posture and how it’s contributing to your discomfort. Slouching not only causes back pain [...]
Posted in Cool Companies Tags: app, back pain, health, LUMOback, mobile app, posture, zero2one No Comments »
Social Loyalty Platform CrowdTwist Raises $6M
September 19th, 2011 admin CrowdTwist recently announced a Series A round of funding of $6M from lead investors SoftBank Capital and Fairhaven Capital. CrowdTwist is a social loyalty and rewards platform that draws heavily from the loyalty side of gamification with a focus towards rewards, monetization, and a strong analytics platform, and the new round is a signal in the future [...]
Posted in Cool Companies Tags: CrowdTwist, gsummit, Irving Fain, platform, social loyalty No Comments »G-List Interview: Irving Fain
September 13th, 2011 admin As part of our G-List – the who’s-who of the gamification space – we will be holding weekly Tweetups with some of the awesome leaders in gamification and a few speakers and guests of our upcoming Gamification Summit in New York. Follow @gamificationco for updates and submit questions with hashtag #gsummit. Up next on September [...]
