Original post from The Drum UK games site Ntrails.com is helping SMEs get more traffic to their websites by using an online treasure hunt. Gamification – the use of games online- is one of the new ways that companies are trying to get viewers onto their websites, but many small companies cannot afford to create […]
Original post by Ruth Mortimer via Marketing Week Brands from every sector are paying close attention to gamification – the latest way of giving content a life beyond its original form, says Ruth Mortimer. Imagine a magical world in which your content never dies, its profit-making ability never comes to an end and no book, […]
Gabe Zichermann presents Gamification is the New Loyalty at the Copenhagen Social Media Conference, 2011. ————————————————– Follow us on Twitter: @Techmeetups Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/LondonSiliconRoundabout Stay updated with the latest news and events happening around the London Silicon Roundabout! Subscribe to this blog by clicking on the E-mail subscription option on the upper […]
Original post by Lauren Fisher via www.simplyzesty.com Fresh out of Brazil comes a new Facebook App that turns your relationship status into a game. The app has been developed by the toothpaste brand ‘Close Up Toothpaste’ and is part of a series of campaigns to encourage people to get up close in new ways. For […]
Kam Star – Chief Play Officer, PlayGen Kam Star is a digital media inventor and an award winning games developer. Creating his first computer game in 1986, he studied Architecture and is deeply passionate about innovation in play, social media and influence. Founder of PlayGen, Kam designs and develops playful solutions and platforms for delivering […]
Grey Area is an ambitious young company out to change the way games are understood as part of the life in the city. Based in Helsinki, Finland, the Company was founded to create a breakthrough gaming experience using real world locations as the context for mobile games. According to Grey Area, they see cities as […]
Hackney Community College and Hackney UTC ties up with Techmeetups.com to help the Tech Startup community in Tech City – also known as London’s Silicon Roundabout Hackney Community College is an exciting, vibrant and multicultural FE College, based in the heart of Hoxton, and is the lead sponsor of a proposed new University Technical College […]
Stormtroopers converged on Old Street in London as part of a Greenpeace protest against Volkswagen’s apparent opposition of European environmental laws. At 7am this morning, commuters were greeted by an army of Stormtroopers at the exits of Old Street’s Silicon Roundabout as the Imperial March sounded. Protesting stormtroopers climbed the billboard above the roundabout to […]
The government is paying a marketing agency close to £100,000 per year to promote David Cameron’s Tech City overseas, a Whitehall department has confirmed. In the same week that saw ministers applaud major reductions in government advertising and the axing of around a quarter of in-house government communications jobs, business minister Mark Prisk told MPs that PR […]
Hermann Hauser has followed Bill Gates’ footsteps and has entered the pantheon of technology “gods”. Hermann Hauser was recognised this week in Silicon Valley’s “Visionary Awards”, joining the ranks of Bill Gates, Vint Cerf, Vinod Khosla and others. Silicon Valley’s elite gathered this week to honour Hermann Hauser at the SDForum annual “Visionary Awards”. Every […]