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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 . ...

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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/