All cheats, tips and news tagged: foursquare

Gartner: Gamification will ... gamify 50 percent of companies by 2015

by Joe Osborne Apr 14th, 2011 3:30 PM

Boy, there sure are a lot of folks looking at 2015 already, huh? The hype train known as the gamification movement (thanks, Foursquare) has ...

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Tags: amazon, FourSquare, game layer, gamification, gamify, gartner, gartner research, gartner+gamification, gartnergamification, rewardville, twitter, venturebeat, zynga

Are mobile social games and Foursquare meant to be?

by Joe Osborne Feb 9th, 2011 6:50 PM

We hate to sound like a broken record, but social games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars are becoming increasingly prevalent on mobile devices like ...

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Tags: facebook places, FacebookPlaces, farmville, FourSquare, gamification, Gowalla, inside social games, InsideSocialGames, location based services, LocationBasedServices, mafia wars, MafiaWars, mobile games, mobile gaming, MobileGames, MobileGaming, papaya mobile, PapayaMobile

California investor says augmented reality will enhance mobile social games'

by Joe Osborne Oct 1st, 2010 5:00 PM

Osuke Honda, a partner with Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture capital firm DCM, just invested $12 million in a Japanese augmented reality company ...

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Tags: augmented reality, AugmentedReality, dcm, FourSquare, layar, scvngr, senkai camera, SenkaiCamera, tonchidot

Five things we want to see in the Google Games network

by Kyle Orland Jul 30th, 2010 12:00 PM

The past few weeks have seen a distinct ramp up in rumors surrounding a new Google social network in the works -- with social gaming being a ...

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Tags: android, fbfeed, foursquare, google, google games, google me, GoogleGames, GoogleMe, gowalla, list, location, location-aware, location-based, maps, mobile, mobile phone, mobile phones, MobilePhone, MobilePhones, mytown, open, open source, open standards, OpenSource, OpenStandards, picasa, recommendations, rumor, social gaming, social network, SocialGaming, SocialNetwork, youtube

Quote of the Moment: Breaking an appointment

by Kyle Orland Jul 5th, 2010 11:30 AM

"There are a number of reasons why I prefer Foursquare. One is that the Farmville compulsion loop is based on an 'appointment gaming' mechanism. ...

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Tags: appointment, farmville, foursquare, gps, location-based, qotm, social, social gaming, SocialGaming