Tomorrow in San Francisco, at the Moscone Center, the Children of Flickr will be gathering - for a panel - “Children of Flickr: Making the Massively Multiplayer Social Web.”

10:50am - 11:40am Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Design and User Experience 2003

Flickr was one of the first popular Web 2.0 web sites: a social photo sharing web site that helped popularize tagging. Flickr was born of an attempt to make a browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game about information exchange: “Game Neverending.”

Today, the children of Flickr are continuing to work massively multiplayer game mechanics into social web sites. This panel will discuss strategies, models, and pitfalls for harnessing the power of play to promote the social Web.

Who are the children of Flickr? In this case, three people:

Rajat Paharia from Bunchball, Chris Chapman from Steel Anvil Studios / Areae, Gabe Zicherman from rmbr

For some preview of what we might be discussing, check out Amy Jo Kim’s recent PARC lecture Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game Mechanics to Social Software. She examines the playful social dynamics of Youtube, Twitter and Facebook. Tomorrow we’re going to be discussing strategies for intertwingling play into online life.

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