Sphero says it is taking its SDK on the road with the Sphero Hack Tour, which is aimed at generating interest and new content for the gaming system. The first hack will be Web-hosted, before the tour goes to Boulder, Austin, Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, and finally New York from May to November. Each event will see $12,000 worth of prizes dealt out to those responsible for the best hacks, giving further encouragement for developers to get building for Sphero. (via Sphero Gets New Apps, now Encourages Developers)
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The hype around gamification may be over, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t an incredibly useful concept that can engage audiences in powerful ways.
Gamification expert Gabe Zicherman spoke at The Next Web Conference last week about the power of the process, and how it can improve everything from your health to your intelligence. As he puts it, it’s not just about “Crappy badges.”
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(via Gamification’s Not Just About Silly Badges [Video] - The Next Web)
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Twitter Notes. Graphite, colored pencil, and watercolor on clayboard. 2012. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery.
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Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. - Elsie de Wolfe
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Sukar.com, one of the Middle East’s few private shopping clubs offers prepaid payment options, and has seen usage increase by 3 and a half times since February 2011. Prepaid channels now account for 70% of all of the site’s payments, compared to 20% the same time last year. Lebanon has seen the larget hike, increasing seven fold, followed by Jordan and Egypt, increasing five fold, the UAE increasing almost four fold, with Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain increasing between two and three fold.
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Alarm-clock app rewards users for guessing which city’s sounds they wake up to
Getting up on time can be a challenge, but numerous variations on the alarm-clock theme are aiming to make it easier. Just recently we featured the Ramos clock, which forces users out of bed to enter a code, and now a new mobile app from airline Lufthansa adds a different twist altogether. Specifically, users of Lufthansa’s free Anywake app are awoken to the sounds of a random city — if they guess which one it is, they’re rewarded with discounted tickets to that destination. READ MORE…
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