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Indie Game Developer Chris de Castro Shares Lessons Learned In another episode of Kickstarter Unboxed, we talk with indie game developer Chris de Castro who shares five big learnings of crowdfunding wisdom about his successful Kickstarter campaign with his indie game "The Wizards of Trinity Bellwoods". Check out below what Chris can share with other indie game developers on crowdfunding.

Mobile technology continues to change every industry, from education to security to wearables and healthcare. Join us at  GMIC Silicon Valley 2015  to hear from the people and companies that are leading this change. GMIC Silicon Valley, taking place  September 28-30 , will bring the mobile Internet community together for three days of thought-provoking sessions on the industry’s hottest topics and exclusive networking events. Led by mobile innovators, influential VCs and China's top tech leaders, the conference program will explore the changing landscape of mobile technology. Topics include Big Data, Wearables, IoT, Mobile Monetization, Gaming, Robotics, Security and more. Visit the  GMIC Silicon Valley blog  for the latest details. GMIC speakers are market-disrupting leaders from companies like LinkedIn, Google, Yelp, Misfit Wearables, Cheetah Mobile, Baidu, 3D Robotics, Poshmark and Salesforce.  Check out the complete list of speakers . If you are attending, don

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Infegy's Atlas Engine Scores the Social Power Rankings Kansas City based Infegy has opened up a page tracking the top 50 social brands across the whole internet. In fact, you can  see the top brands by year going back to 2009, or by month so far in 2015. The list was created through analysis of total conversations, brand sentiment and purchase intent. Rion Martin, Director of Marketing at Infegy, said "the report analyzed more than 800 brands worldwide and drew on millions of online conversations." From the tech point of view, there were 24 tech brands in the Top 50 and 16 were online brands which is where all the conversation is happening. A notable that raised our nerdy brows was Soundcloud at number 11 beating out YouTube at number 13. The dashboard shows not only rank but gender conversation and sentiment by gender, purchase intent and the monthly trend. We interview Rion about the report and some of the things that their social analysis engine has discovere

Adolfo & Greg Talk About Trending Weekly Tech News Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria discuss the weekly tech news in their mind's eye. Check it out!

Have you heard about Stitch.net? Stitch.net or "Stitch" is a startup funded by 500 Startups and is out to bring people 50 years old and over together for companionship, travel partners or even a relationship. Think of it as a mashup of Meetup.com and a safe/secure Tinder. Stitch recently launched here in the SF Bay Area. Stitch is founded by the team who runs Tapestry - a successful Australian venture whose mission is to improve senior's lives by connecting them with their families via a private social network. Stitch boasts a secure, safe and private network where profiles are carefully viewed and connected through mutual desire - problems multiple current dating sites face today. We interview Marcie Rogo , co-founder, about how Stitch came to be and how it will help seniors with loneliness. Check it out!

GOP debates anyone? Our friends at Infegy , the social intelligence company, just announced that they will be showing in real time how the twitter discussion is flying around each candidate.  was generated in real-time using  Infegy Linguistics'  streaming text analytics API and Twitter's low latency  Firehose  data stream.  The dashboard shown above can also show twitter sentiment about each candidate in a dashboard - Favorability, Gender and Political issues. Join in at  http://debate.infegy.com/  for the twitter debates. Update: Looks like the twitterverse spoke - 1. Trump 2. Fiorina 3. Bush. The data is frozen, view it at  http://debate.infegy.com/

HuffPost expands their short form video production world. HuffPost is premiering its brand new Vine series, HuffPost 6x60 , with the first episode launching today. Each week, HuffPost's resident Vine star, Chaz Smith, will give a 360-degree look at the lives of ten 6-second celebrities in just 60 seconds. This week's episode features  Summer  Boissiere, aka vine handle _Summerella_, a 20-year ­old from Atlanta, Georgia who boasts 1.3M followers. Since taking off in the Summer of 2014, Summer Boissiere has used her popularity to propel her career as a singer-­songwriter and released 2 singles, “11 Something” and “Hide & Seek." Check out Chaz's interview with Summer here and check out their vine below

Gagan Luthra of Cypress Semiconductor explains their PSoC ecosystem Tech brands can be big and small but there is nothing better than to learn from the big tech brands. At the recent Maker Faire, we saw a lot of self-similarity amongst the chip makers (Intel, Atmel, TI, ARM and Cypress Semiconductor) aka tech brands on how they built their product ecosystems. Basically they did it with open access, education and community building. Even, Make Media itself has similar characteristics in their ecosystem - openness, education and community building. We speak with  Gagan Luthra , product marketing manager of Cypress Semiconductor on how a tech brand like  Cypress Semiconductor  creates an ecosystem around their products. Why is an product ecosystem important? For a small company or startup, it can provide the reach that can be beyond borders. An product ecosystem is one that is open, accessible and self-sustaining. This following 10 'must' list can be scalable or combined

Apple announces iPad Pro, Pencil, additions to Apple Watch, Apple TV Ampped Up and iPhone 6s, 6s Plus Hello nerds. We want to share Apple's announcements (Apple Watch, iPad Pro, Apple TV, iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus) in a different way. Through your pictures in social. Enjoy.

IoT Growth Hurdles Raised by Security, Software Interoperability amongst others Our friends at NJIT, aka New Jersey Institute of Technology, put together the following infographic on what the beginning of the next decade will look like for IoT. As the infographic state, 1.9 billion devices are connected today. But, in a recent Entrepreneur article " what could be limiting IoT growth will be Security and Software Interoperability ." As pointed in the infographic below, Security, Lack of Interoperatbility, Massive Data, Wireless Connectivity Costs, and Power Consumption are some of the hurdles that need to be solved in the coming decade. However, there will still be use cases driving IoT. For example, current use cases amongst municipalities will be through utilities and traffic. CIO of San Francisco, Mario Gamiño predicted that " Edge Computing ", putting algorithms into local devices, could drive IoT in cities in the area of transportation. The McKinsey Globa

Adolfo & Greg Talk About Trending Weekly Tech News Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria discuss the weekly tech news in their mind's eye. Check it out!

Curiyo releases mobile feature that allows people to participate in trending news in their localized language Today, the simplest information source on the web world goes mobile with a new feature. Curiyo is releasing its information service on Google Play store and Apple iTunes with a new feature called My2¢. Rewind. Curiyo allows users as a web plug-in to view relevant information on the web in concise cards. The mobile look and feel follows the Curiyo user interface of "cards" and digestable information in one place so that we can assess quickly if it is relevant for our consumption.  My2¢ is the plus on the Curiyo screen. Another feature allows users to find trending news based on their localized language and  allows users to comment on trending news   .  I can only describe this as a mashup of reddit, wikipedia, social network and news network.  We talk with serial entrepreneur  Bob Rosenschein , former CEO of Answers.com , about their new mobile features