{"id":2138,"date":"2009-04-16T22:22:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T22:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/16\/why-akoha-has-captured-my-mood\/"},"modified":"2009-04-16T22:22:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T22:22:54","slug":"why-akoha-has-captured-my-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/04\/why-akoha-has-captured-my-mood\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Akoha Has Captured My Mood"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned in my previous post, I think that working on and bringing a more human touch to start ups and internet companies<\/a> will lead to the next success; and one of those is Akoha.<\/p>\n

Dave Delaney<\/a> introduced me to this at SXSW by (a) buying me a pint of Belhaven in Austin (hey I\u2019d been stateside for two weeks, Belhaven was like manna) and at the same time (b) handing me a playing card sized Akoha card. On the card was a mission – \u201cInvite Someone for Drinks.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Dave scores karma points on the Akoha website, and I also score points for being involved in a mission (assuming that I join Akoha and punch in the unique ID number on the card). And then you can both play that card on to someone else (and gain more karma), and also order a full deck of mission cards \u2013 always nice to see a start-up that has revenue streams straight out the door, even if it is just at cost.<\/p>\n

You can find out about just this card and where\u2019 it\u2019s been on the Akoha website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very much an RPG style gathering of experience points, but in the real world (and yes, it gets magnified as levelling up is in there as well). What I really like is that this basic structure, which has proven time and time again to enhance RPG games and their playability, has been added to a range of missions that can easily be described as \u201cbe nice to each other<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

So we have a Web 2.0 style social network, plus a trading card game, plus the whole be nice to the rest of the world. plus the ability to share these stories online (which feeds back into the social network, and thus we have a virtuous cycle).<\/p>\n

I love it.<\/p>\n

And if you want to know more, I caught up with co-founder Austin Hill when I was in San Francisco last month. Here\u2019s the video interview (and yes, I\u2019m still playing with video styles and suchlike). <\/p>\n

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