PMOG
The Passively Multiplayer Online Game
It’s a social network/link sharing site with a sort of Steampunk feel. You take “missions” which are basically tours of websites that someone’s linked together. You can create your own missions, leave “mines” behind that “detonate” when another PMOG person comes across them (no damage is done to your computer or your browser - just to the PMOG stats). You can leave teleports to other sites (often with little notes that indicate if you like the site you’re on, you’ll love the teleport destination, too).
“Badges” are awarded based on your surfing behaviours. Like for going so many hours without hitting Google, or having so many return visits to a particular website over a span of time.
More detailed information is here.
Yeah, it’s kind of like advertising disguised as a game. Yeah, you can do a lot of the same thing just by trolling through Digg or del.icio.us. But this is cute dammit.
This is the part where you say things like “OMG THEY’RE TRACKING YOU ON THE WEB AND MIGHT BE STEALING YOUR INFORMATION”. Me, I’mma go make me some rivals.
