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Eric’s High School Experience Makes SAT Studying Interactive

Bianca Gelli12 years ago12 years ago05 mins

Eric’s High School Experience is an online K-12 education resource that offers interactive learning tools for those attempting the SAT, seeking ways to improve their high school performance or just keeping up with a lifelong learning goal.

It is a response to the College Board’s call to action after the 2013 SAT report on College & Career readiness revealed that only 43% of students that took the SAT were qualified as college-ready, and that this number had remained virtually unchanged for five years.

Consumer

Coke Freestyle Makes Fountain Drinks Fun Again

Danyell Thillet15 years ago14 years ago31 mins

Coca-Cola recently announced a multi-media, fully interactive, campaign. Coke Freestyle lets you select your own unique flavor combinations from all of their brands (which I guarantee you is more than you think) and enjoy Coke in a whole new way. First off there is the Freestyle Facebook app, which simulates a vending machine that lets you pick…

J.K. Rowling Reveals Secrets with Pottermore

Danyell Thillet15 years ago14 years ago01 mins

Muggles take notice – JK Rowling has found another way to extend the Harry Potter franchise with an new interactive, gamified site: Pottermore. The mysterious new website promises to be “an online experience where you can explore the stories like never before”. The landing page is so far very sparse, with only an introductory video from…

Enterprise

Fun from Sweden: Interactive Billboards

Jeff Lopez15 years ago14 years ago31 mins

Billboards are boring, and if they are eye-catching, they quickly become an eye-sore. A new idea for an interactive billboard has hit the street in Sweden, and it makes something that most people try to ignore into a fun and engaging experience. A McDonalds campaign gives pedestrians the chance to play what, right now, is…

Enterprise

Rypple Gamifies the Workplace

Greg Caswell15 years ago14 years ago41 mins

Rypple is a software company with products aimed at making a better workplace. By using elements of gamification and positive motivation they have created innovative products that borrow elements of feedback from the game world. In the forums and chat windows of Massively Multiplayer Online games, players have occasionally compared their game experiences to the…

Consumer

Create Your New Look with Zappos VIP Outfit Builder

Danyell Thillet15 years ago14 years ago21 mins

A few weeks back we reported on the new Zappos VIP features that added a layer of gamification to the exclusive shopping tier of the popular online store. Excitement by customers has increased when Zappos launched the new “Outfit Builder” (beta) late last month. This paperdoll-esque interface allows you to browse the selection, pick out items…

How much do game mechanics really affect your life?

Danyell Thillet16 years ago14 years ago14 mins

Here’s an interesting exercise – Stanford Professor B.J. Fogg created this interactive public graph on Google Docs on how game mechanics alter behaviors. Anonymous users are invited to view and edit this range bar graph. The purpose is to place popular websites, social media companies and apps in relative dimension to their “gamey-ness” (how many…

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Eric’s High School Experience Makes SAT Studying Interactive

Coke Freestyle Makes Fountain Drinks Fun Again

J.K. Rowling Reveals Secrets with Pottermore

Fun from Sweden: Interactive Billboards

Rypple Gamifies the Workplace