March 20, 2008
All the world's a game
Turn your web surfing into a competition and social springboard. Technology Review:
To make surfing the Web a more social and lighthearted experience ... designers are grafting a massively multiplayer online game on top of ordinary Web browsing. Players rack up points as they visit sites, devise themed missions that lead other players through sets of websites, and leave notes for one another--all of it invisible to nonplayers. GameLayers calls its game PMOG, for "passively multiplayer online game," because "we're layering games on top of things that are already there," says CEO and cofounder Justin Hall...
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