Participants created an avatar for one of three contrasting settings: blogging, dating or gaming.
That could be online gaming, dating apps or an on-demand delivery service — any case where two people need to communicate quickly.
Mobile payments startup Zong, which is one of our DemoPit exhibitors at TechCrunch50, thinks it has the answer to micro-payments on the Web for social apps like gaming, dating and classifieds.
Also, they don't have access to their Facebook accounts, dating sites, Internet gaming, and, er... more "inappropriate" forms of pictorial entertainment.
This page is designed for people that are not allowed to use social networking sites, dating sites, some gaming and shopping sites, and porn.
By contrast, participants in the dating and gaming treatments accentuated certain aspects of their avatar to reflect the tone and perceived expectations of the context.
Hundreds of developers -- including those who made popular dating and gaming apps and those who built political apps for campaigns -- used Facebook to gain access to huge amounts of information about users and their Facebook friends.
Along with business conferencing, idle chit-chat and dating, peer-to-peer gaming might also become commonplace.
The list of developers who siphoned friends' data includes gaming companies, dating apps, researchers, and even 2012 President Obama's presidential campaign, as The Washington Post reported on Monday.
Enthusiasts can go back in time at the New Hampshire retro Funspot Family Entertainment Center, a classic gaming museum dating back to 1952, before getting bang up to date at Tokyo's high-tech Taito Station, which according to Game stores, who co-devised the trip, "is the world's best arcade gaming experience".
DD: Three big ways, and you're potentially hitting two of them: gaming and dating.
