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Pawned Gamification and its Discontents - ファブリス - 2010-10-21
An interesting slide on the gamification trend of webapps and social sites:
http://www.slideshare.net/dings/pawned-gamification-and-its-discontents
(you may have to click the fullscreen icon to be able to read the "subtitle")
I'm glad I'm not alone to be annoyed by this trend. I tend to stay out of all these "social" sites anyway, but I can't avoid the "gamification" of StackOverflow, which I find irritating (ymmv).
Pawned Gamification and its Discontents - stehr - 2010-10-21
I'm not a fan of this trend either so hopefully it will die out. It's nice to see such a thought provoking presentation on this issue.
I thought these were pretty funny (and somewhat relevant):
Pawned Gamification and its Discontents - nest0r - 2010-10-21
I like the idea of learning through games but not making shallow silly games aimed to make humans into better customers/widgets.
Speaking of which: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101019171854.htm