As discussed in this blog gamification is being used to enable health consciousness, engage learners, and drive awareness on a variety of subjects. Previous blog posts have provided examples of awareness building games: Evoke – This project is the brain child of Jane McGonigal. The goal of this social network game is to help empower young people all over the world, and especially young people in Africa, to come up with creative solutions to our…

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Communications has been irrevocably changed by Wi-Fi. For a great example of how far we’ve come in just 10 short years, take a look at My Life B.W., Before Wi-Fi. But while Wi-Fi in mobile devices is becoming more and more commonplace, Wi-Fi infrastructure is not yet ubiquitous. Cellular networks have Wi-Fi beat today, despite 125,000 (and growing) public hotspots. So I’m puzzled over the target market for the Sony mylo (My Life O…

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Every once in awhile I read a news article, blog post or press release that makes me think “this is a really big idea”. Turns out today was one of those days. While in a meeting I was forwarded a link to a new company called Onlive.com. You can read a great summary of their business at the Nerdworld blog at Time.com In summary, their business is to deliver on-demand video games to PCs and TVs without the need for a dedicated console…

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I went to the Virtual Edge Summit last week and had the pleasure of attending Byron Reeves, Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, and Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director of the H-STAR Institute and Media X, keynote address on “Total Engagement”. Byron touched on a couple of things near and dear to the hearts of the Cisco Virtual Environment bloggers including gaming and education, the importance of self…

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What do you get when you combine 5000+ gamers, a 100GE uplink to the Internet, a lot of espresso machines, and no parents to tell them to shut down the noise or go to bed early? A whole lot of fun! The Gathering (“TG”), is Norway’s largest computer party and kicked off today for its 20th time since 1992. It’s grown so large now that it is held at one of the venues used for the 1994 Winter Olympics. TG continues to attract growing interest to the…

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