Devnology Podcast 028 - Gamification with Gabe Zichermann

Gamification expert Gabe Zichermann was in the Netherlands to
give a talk at TheNextWeb conference in April. We managed to
tackle him for an interview, and he put the Gamification hype
into perspective for us with some compelling examples and a lot
of theoretical background. We talk about user engagement as a
metric, SAP as a gamification frontrunner (yes, SAP), behavioral
economics and gamification as a silver bullet. Gabe finishes with
a life lesson he got from playing a lot of Sid Meier's
Civilization.


You can follow Gabe on Twitter at @gzicherm


This interview was recorded at the beautiful rehearsal theater of
Hettoneelspeelt (http://www.hettoneelspeelt.nl/verhuur/)


Interview by @freekl and @tjeerdhans
Audio post-production by @mendelt


Links for this podcast:


gamification.co, Gabe's site about all things Gamification

Gabe is a fan of the work of Nadya Direkova, UX designer at
Google

Some examples Gabe talks about: www.stackoverflow.com,
www.huffingtonpost.com and the Frequent Flyer Program of United
Airlines

The Wikipedia page about Gamification

A dedicated wiki for Gamification

Gabe's books