February 1, 2012
LifeHacker | Alan Henry

Many of us at Lifehacker are big fans of video games. Our esteemed Editor-in-Chief, however, is skeptical that gaming holds anything of value beyond simple entertainment, and more often than not, believes that games are a dangerous time sink. In this post, I hope to convince him—and any of you who may feel the same way about video games—otherwise, arguing that aside from being a great form of entertainment, video games can also relieve anxiety, teach new skills, and help you stay motivated. And I’ve got science to back me up. Read this article

January 26, 2012
PSFK | Sam McNerney

With a host of new personal technologies and interactive platforms to help users track and improve their individual health and wellness hitting the market in recent months, entrepreneurs and software designers are jumping on board the ‘Quantified Self’ bandwagon. The movement, which believes in the idea of better living through data-driven insights, has shown growth beyond stat geeks and early adopters and seems poised to break out beyond its niche beginnings. Read this article

January 18, 2012
MakeUseOf | Saikat Basu

What exactly is Mindbloom? Is it a mind mapping application? Is it a goal-setting motivational tool? Is it a social network? Or is it a game? By the time we finish this article, let’s hope we can swap all these questions with a few exclamations. Read this article

January 8, 2012
LifeHacker | Alan Henry

Whether you’ve made fresh resolutions for the new year or you’re just looking for a tool that can help reinforce your existing commitments, the web is full of goal tracking apps and systems. Here are five of the best of those services, based on your nominations. Read this article

January 6, 2012
Mashable | Sam Laird

Mindbloom co-founder Chris Hewett acknowledges that the online health space has several interactive tools. But he says most of those share a couple of faults: they narrowly focus on one area of life, for example physical fitness, and their interactive elements are often narrowed to simple things like leader boards and merit badges. Read this article

January 4, 2012
TechCrunch | Dave Chase

Fifteen years ago the Internet was revolutionizing global communications and computing so companies were looking for the most advanced markets to test their technologies. Locales such as Korea and Singapore portended the future. Today, no less than reinvention of healthcare is taking place. A key question is which locales will provide a similar testbed for healthtech. It’s not always the obvious places. Read the article

January 4, 2012
Mashable | Kate Freeman

Making resolutions is easy. Keeping them is the hard part. If you made promises to yourself on New Year’s Day, you may well have discovered (or rediscovered) that fact already.

But as with so many tasks in modern life, there are now apps and online tools that can make those daunting promises a little more manageable. Read the article

January 2, 2012
freewaregenius.com | B.C. Tietjens

Mindbloom is a free, online program and website designed around the concept of “life-mapping” or “mind-mapping”. It offers a fun and easy way to set goals and take action, and offers eye candy rewards for completed actions and/or goals. Mindbloom sets itself apart from other programs or websites of its type in that it presents the concept as an interactive game experience as well as being a social networking tool. Read the article

Will next year be like this year? Those New Year promises you make to yourself – where will they go? In the trash with the rest of the ones you’ve made? You want 2012 to be different, so how is that going to happen? Will it be you saying it will be different? Or will you do something different?

You’re smart. What are the best ways to change human behavior? Would you agree it’s making the process of change fun and being held accountable? If you agree – I have a free way for you to make 2012 a better year. It’s called Mindbloom, a website and phone app that makes changing your life fun. Read this article

December 24, 2011
TECK.IN

Mindbloom is an online game which, rather than wasting your time, improves your quality of life by rewarding you for doing things that matter in your life. The main idea behind Mindbloom is to make you think what’s important in your life and what’s not, discover inspiring things, what motivates you and in the end, take meaningful action to make your life better. Read the article