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How to thrive in chaos: This Is Generation Flux (quote from FastCo)

A great quote from a Fast Company article.. Despite recession, currency crises, and tremors of financial instability, the pace of disruption is roaring ahead. The frictionless spread of information and the expansion of personal, corporate, and global networks have plenty of room to run. And here’s the conundrum: When businesspeople search for the right forecast–the [...]

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Has social gaming’s popularity been overstated? | Econsultancy

As part of that release, it changed the way it measures how many people use Facebook apps, the most popular of which are, of course, social games. The impact: AllThingsDigital quotes social gaming startup CEO Peter Relan as stating “Everyone lost about a quarter of their users”. Following Facebook’s changes, Relan’s company, Crowdstar, went from [...]

USA Taps Yap.TV For New Social TV App

Today the USA television network has announced a partnership with Yap.TV to power its mobile social application. Yap.TV is one of the hottest social TV apps on the App Store, offering users the chance to chat up television shows in real time. It’s basically a souped-up Twitter client for TV, and now all the same cool functionality will [...]

Your Social Game TV Season on Facebook

Dexter: Slice of Life - Unlike many of the TV tie-in games on Facebook, Ecko Code’s Dexter: Slice of Life stands apart from the field, thanks to its stealthy gameplay and close ties to the TV show. Each Monday the Facebook game updates with new content based on the episodes that aired on Sunday night, allowing players not [...]

Companies Adopt Gaming Techniques to Motivate Employees – WSJ.com

Image via CrunchBase Striving to make everyday business tasks more engaging, a growing number of firms, including International Business Machines Corp. and consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., are incorporating elements of videogames into the workplace. They’re deploying reward and competitive tactics commonly found in the gaming world to make tasks such as management training, [...]