Yesterday, I stumbled across Karen Woodham's (@BlazingMinds) blog post, Are You A One True Fan?. Being the innovator/early adopter type, I thought I would give it a try. Unfortunately, I’ve been having some computer difficulties and soon after I installed their Chromium extension, by computer crashed, taking several hours of work with it. It was pretty frustrating. To make things worse, for the next 24 hours, my computer crawled, and I could barely get anything done. I disabled the extension and things still crawled.

However, after a bit of cleaning up and time away from the computer, things are running smoothly again, so I’ve re-enabled the widget and started exploring.

As I started exploring, I noticed another name, Eric Marcoullier (@bpm140). I remember Eric from when he was co-founder and product guy of MyBlogLog, so it really caught my attention. Eric is CEO and Co-Founder of OneTrueFan, which he says “is one of several companies seeking to ‘gamify’ web sites.”

With the OneTrueFan extension loaded, you ‘check-in’, ala Foursquare, to each website you visit. You score points by sharing links. You earn badges, called patches in OneTrueFan, and there is a leaderboard. There is a way of setting up people that you are ‘following’, but I haven’t found any way to follow people or import who I’m following from Twitter or Facebook.

There are Twitter and Facebook connections, but I worry about the feedback loop and it being too spammy, so I’m not sharing a lot of links that way yet. In my normal blog surfing, I’ve already become the ‘OneTrueFan’ of nearly a dozen sites and have score over 1500 points.

@BlazingMinds points to @Ileane as the person that got her into OneTrueFan, so I figured I’d follow her and give her a shout out as well. It will be very interesting to watch how OneTrueFan evolves.