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Feedback Request for my New Gamification Blog Design

  Feedback for my new Gamification Blog Design This is a special post mostly for my awesome regular readers. I was thinking about just suddenly one-day update my blog with a new look and surprise a lot of people, but at the end, I decided to go with the lean-startup way of getting user feedback […]

Everything you need to know about Bitcoins in 2013

(New to Gamification? Check out my post What is Gamification & my Gamification Framework: Octalysis) Bitcoin: the bits and pieces You may have heard of it in the media. Bitcoin is the new, hot “virtual currency” that is not only attracting the attention of millions of individuals, but banks, the federal government, state governments, and a number of national […]

1 Man, 2 Keynotes, 2 Continents, 18 Hours. Delirious.

(Warning: this post is NOT about gamification, but just more about me. You will not gain in intellectual capability by reading this post, so please decide if you think this would be worth your time. But after all, the name of this site is YukaiChou.com, so I think this post would still be appropriate, regardless […]

Why Google+ Sucks and What to Do About It (Pre and after 2013)

Google+ gets a C- in User Experience Last week Google hosted their annual conference the Google I/O and released a new version of Google Plus. The new one is an improvement, but still a major frustration for the majority of the people in my network. Even though they claim to have massive user growth rates, […]

Yu-kai Chou Rated 4th Among the Top 40 Gamification Gurus

New to Gamification? Check out my post What is Gamification & my Gamification Framework: Octalysis Gamification Game On Last month, I finally made it to the Top 10 among the Top 40 Gamification Gurus on Leaderboarded, but at that time I was ranked 8th. With the new results this month, it is a pleasant surprise […]

Yu-kai Chou rated 1st among the Top 40 Gamification Gurus on Leaderboarded

New to Gamification? Check out my post What is Gamification & my Gamification Framework: Octalysis Gamifying the competition between Gamification Gurus About 3 months ago, I shared how I got into the Top 40 Gamification Gurus on Leaderboarded, but at that time I was last place at 40. They have published their new results, and it is a pleasant […]

Ian Bogost the Troll: How I got bashed in the face on Twitter

Being Bashed on Twitter by Ian Bogost Below is a weird and unexpected conversation I had on Twitter. I’ve dealt with Anonymous bashers before (even made a short video that directly talks about how to deal with bashers), but keep in mind Ian Bogost is a renowned Professor at Georgia Tech. I did not expect […]