Green Scissors

Seriosity Attent: Email Management Software Solution for the Enterprise.

Attent creates an economy with a scarce new currency (Serios) that enables users to signal the importance of their outgoing email by attaching value. Recipients can use the Serios received to prioritize their attention to messages, and in return use their Serios to assign appropriate weight to their responses.

I’m fascinated by this idea.  Creating an “Attention Economy” using a synthetic currency similar to multi-player online games as a way to improve the efficiency of corporate communication.  I’m sure that this idea can be warped by the average MBA just as quickly as other good ideas, but there is a ton of potential if you have someone with a gamer mentality managing it.

I’ve seen the effects of the email landslide in any big company I’ve worked for.  Every trivial email devalues all of the emails sent which makes it difficult to get the attention of people when you really need to.

Now if they could just come up with an economy as utterly goofy and appealing as Kingdom Of Loathing’s meat.

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