It's the stinkin' badges - helped along by casual competition with friends, and now, despite my best attempts to not make any actual alterations to how I behave, I am sure I am doing things that are actually better for me, in the same way that Foursquare recommendations have pushed me to new venues and trying new things, based on badges and recommendations from friends. Yesterday's Fitbit activity shows average walking, and lots of climbing. day's activity, showing spikes of walking across campus and at home. badge for 50 flights is one thing. What about 10? MORE >>

If you've been running the OneTrueFan bar to follow your activity around the Web, as I've long extolled and done myself, you've gotten used to the ease of sharing great content downstream and racking up achievements, as you work your way to the top of sites' leaderboard. badge to achieving multiple levels from engagement, to achieving the much-desired OneTrueFan status, will be displayed in a larger, rectangular window, attached to the OTF bar. The New Badging System on OneTrueFan The enhancements are pretty slick and welcome for all existing users. OneTrueFan MORE >>

The site just revamped with a major refresh of its offering, helping to quickly surface user statistics, history, fanned sites, and like many services, earned badges. OneTrueFan's latest Web revamp now clearly displays site leaderboards and activity streams for specific domains (Examples: Twitter and Google ). Three Individuals' OneTrueFan Statistics While people once acted surprised at tracking people's habits in spending and traveling with the other services, it might seem curious why other friends' Web activity would be of interest to me. Cool, I think. MORE >>

Instead of “checking in&# at a restaurant or coffee shop via a mobile application, MOJO (and others) let you “check-in&# to a particular piece of Web content (blog post, video, photo, graphical badge), and assign points and other rewards for an array of marketer-determined behaviors. And it’s a lot more than just giving out some badges. Badging for the sake of badging is wasteful and annoying. Then apply Web Check-Ins, badging, and points to drive that engagement. That’s a colossal potential audience advantage for Web check-ins. MORE >>

For example, the usability category now shows activity.  The main reason I started using Sphinn was the attractive voting counter badges that stand out among the sea of Tweet This and Facebook Like buttons. Whats Sphinn? Join us! Sphinn Guidelines | Login | Help Hot News Comments Submit News Tip Start A Discussion Tools Sphinn Blog Sphinn Feeds SEO PPC SEM Social Media Link Building Analytics Display Ads Domaining Usability Searching Vertical Search Affiliates Sphinn Zone Other Internet Marketing Sorry this site requires JavaScript to be enabled in your browser. today. Thats fine. MORE >>