Just Signed up for Flattr, what do you think of it?

While reading the Eclipse Memory Analyzer (MAT) - Tutorial I noticed a link to https://flattr.com which is a micro-payment solution for consumers of content to support the content creators.

Here is more info about Flattr:

• How Flattr works , Where can I flattr? , FAQ , Contact (Sweden and in London UK :)  )
• Flattr Wikipedia Article
• Bootstrapping a Podcast Economy with Flattr
• Twitter cuts off another payment service: Flattr is told to stop tying Favorites to money  and Twitter is forcing us to drop users ability to flattr creators by favoriting their tweets

Here are the steps I took to register:

Two great posts on Gamification

From TechCrunch’s Tadhg Kell here are two great articles that explain the Gamification concept really well:

• Everything You’ll Ever Need To Know About Gamification
• Real Gamification Mechanics Require Simplicity And, Yes, Game Designers Can Do It

His core idea is that Gamification boilds down one of to three things: validation, completion and prizes

OWASP GSD Project (GSD = Get Stuff Done)

Yesterday I started the OWASP GSD Project, based on:

• the ideas first presented on OWASP Project Reboot 2012 - Here is a better model,
• the fact that there is a good amount of funds available at OWASP (160k USD available to OWASP Chapters and Projects) and 
• the need that OWASP has to inject energy into its projects, .

The Project's main page is at: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_GSD_Project  and below (end of this post) you will find a copy and paste of today's version of this project page (which is the first pass at defining what the GSD is)