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Gamification the dumb…err…Google way

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
August 1, 2011

Beautiful summary:

Google News US has launched collectable badges for reading news stories.

This is stupid.

Mary has provided plenty of more detailed reasons why it’s stupid, too. Another example of Google jumping on a social bandwagon without really understanding it?

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