{"id":799,"date":"2014-02-19T22:07:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T22:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2018-07-24T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T17:09:14","slug":"betable-com-on-the-ethics-of-developing-addictive-social-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/799","title":{"rendered":"Betable.com on the ethics of developing addictive social games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/betable.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/betable.png\" alt=\"betable\" class=\"alignnone imagepost\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking at using big social game data to do science.  I wanted to advance my own thinking about the ethical issues, so I rooted up some of the names that are pushing the social-gaming conversation in new directions.  Among the places I found was Betable.com, a social gaming startup that is very excited to involve gambling in the future of online gaming.   It is also very good at marketing itself.  Given its prominence in the scene and its eagerness to present itself as avant garde I figured its leadership would have provocative \u2014 even original \u2014 thoughts on the subject of ethics.  Is that so na\u00efve?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking at using big social game data to do science. I wanted to advance my own thinking about the ethical issues, so I rooted up some of the names that are pushing the social-gaming conversation in new directions. Among the places I found was Betable.com, a social gaming startup that is very excited to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Betable.com on the ethics of developing addictive social games<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23,22,30,21,24,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}