Jamie Beckland

Use game mechanics to improve online interactionsTotal read time: 5 minutes Games have been around for thousands of years. But while Go and Chess are complicated (and have even been proven to correlate with intelligence), for most of history, games have not been taken seriously. Until video games came along. In the span of 30 years, [...]

OK, I’ll admit it – I saw ’2012′.  I didn’t go of my own volition – my arm was twisted by a disaster-movie junkie (Michael and I even saw ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ – in the theater, no less!).  But, I did learn that even at the end of days, with destruction imminent, brands will [...]