Thursday, March 25, 2010

What is Cause World? Foursquare with a purpose


Foursquare users might get a kick out of this app. Cause World, similar to Foursquare, is a location based social networking game that has users "check-in" to stores, restaurants and work places while earning points and badges along the way.

So what's different about Cause World? Well, in Foursquare users earn points and compare scores on a weekly scoreboard (resets every Sunday at 11:59 p.m.) for really no purpose other than to triumph over friends. In Cause World, when you earn points, which are called karma, you put that karma to work for a good cause.

Yesterday morning, I spent five karmas to help "prevent child
abuse." That afternoon I spent 10 karmas to "provide relief for Haiti" and that night I spent another 10 karmas to "provide relief for Chile," earning the "Chile Supporter Badge" in the process.

According to the app, Cause World users have offset more than 1.3 million pounds of carbon. Al Gore must love this game!
Connecting the Great Divide:

Users can also connect to all kinds of social networks and mobile apps through Cause World including Facebook, My Town and Shazam. When users connect to these networks through Cause World, they earn a generous amount of karmas which, in my opinion, should be spent immediately.

For more on Cause World check out (or check-in) the Cause World Blog.

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