Tag Archives: Games

The Future of Gamification

Each week, DailyTekk connects you with leading experts on a given topic as part of our Understanding series. This week we are focusing on explaining Gamification. Yesterday we learned who can benefit from gamification and today you’ll learn about the future of gamification. Last week we focused on Big Data. Scott Dodson: “In time, Gamification will cease to be [...]

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Who Can Benefit From Gamification?

Each week, DailyTekk connects you with leading experts on a given topic as part of our Understanding series. This week we are focusing on explaining Gamification. Yesterday we learned about successful gamification strategies and today you’ll learn who can benefit from gamification. Last week we focused on Big Data. Jesse Schell: “It’s never a silver bullet. If you are [...]

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Successful Gamification Strategies in Action

Each week, DailyTekk connects you with leading experts on a given topic as part of our Understanding series. This week we are focusing on explaining Gamification. Yesterday we learned what gamification is and today you’ll learn about successful gamification strategies. Last week we focused on Big Data. Gabe Zichermann: “There are a myriad of gamification success stories in [...]

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Gamification Defined

The term “gamification” has made a big splash over the last few years; actually, the term itself was officially coined back in 2002 but didn’t really reach critical mass until 2010 (according to Wikipedia’s article on gamification). These days there are classes on gamification (like this one offered by the University of Pennsylvania via Coursera [...]

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Game of Fame: Scribblenauts Unlimited

For the uninitiated, Scribblenauts is a way-outside-the-box puzzle game series that originated on the Nintendo DS platform and has now made the leap to the Wii U as Scribblenauts Unlimited. If you like creativity, it doesn’t get much more creative than Scribblenauts where nearly anything a player can dream up can become an interactive object in [...]

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Sifteo Cubes Review

Sifteo Cubes are a fun, innovative gaming system unlike anything else you can buy (see the story behind Sifteo Cubes). The sleek design boggles the mind; from the time you insert the first battery you are thinking, “Wow, this was hard to build!” Sifteo Cubes don’t just look good, they actually deliver on their promise [...]

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100 Terrific Tools for Coders & Developers

Coding… the world runs on it these days. Want job security? Become a developer. Want fame and fortune? Learn to code! This post is #26 in DailyTekk’s famous Top 100 series which explores the best startups, gadgets, apps, websites and services in a given category. Total items listed: 107. Time to compile: 6+ hours. Follow @DailyTekk on Twitter to [...]

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Win a $50 iTunes Gift Card for Discovering Music on Facebook!

DailyTekk has teamed up with Music Festivals Game to give you an exclusive offer: win a $50 iTunes voucher for discovering new music! In Music Festivals Game you play the music you love, discover new music and build your own perfect music festival. Lay down rock stages, jazz stages, whatever you like and visit your [...]

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Inside SoundCloud

Jane Shin is the US community manager for SoundCloud in San Francisco. She leads community outreach activities and programs to [...]

Data-Driven Decision Making: Beyond Today’s BI

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Hjalmar Gislason, the founder and CEO of DataMarket. DataMarket‘s data hub helps enterprises [...]

Game of Fame: Galcon Fusion

Phil Hassey created Galcon, a multiplayer arcade real-time strategy game which won an IGF award. Phil is one of the [...]

Inside Box

Kimber Lockhart is Director of Engineering at Box, where she leads the web application engineering team that builds most new [...]

Game of Fame: Bloons Tower Defense

Stephen Harris is the co-founder of Ninja Kiwi, a developer and publisher of flash web games and mobile games. He [...]

Inside Klout

Here to share the inside scoop on Klout is Katelin Holloway, Director of People. As described by a coworker, “Katelin [...]

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