For Immediate Release
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (U.S.) – May 26, 2011 – Raptr, the only online platform that allows gamers to share, interact, and discover personalized gaming content across all major gaming platforms and IM services, was featured on industry bellwether TechCrunch today.

"Raptr is the only service out there to aggregate essentially one's entire gaming life into a single communication and management platform," said Dirk Knemeyer, a founder of Involution Studios. "Dennis' (Fong, Raptr CEO) vision for Raptr preceded the social networking explosion and led to a service that was designed from the start to be ahead of the latest trends in cloud computing and cross-device communication. We're thrilled, but certainly not surprised, to see Dennis and the Raptr team enjoying such overwhelming success."

This weekend I attended the Humanity+ Conference at Parsons in New York City. Subtitled "Transhumanism Meets Design", the conference aspired to "explor(e) emerging technology, transdisciplinary design, culture and media theory, and biotech."

For Immediate Release
NEW YORK CITY (U.S.) – April 19, 2011 – Involution Studios Creative Director Juhan Sonin was announced today as one of just 11 Respect Advisors for the NextGen:Health Conference. Scheduled for February 2012, NextGen:Health aspires to bring together "the greatest minds in modern medicine and healthcare from around the world."

Always self-deprecating, Sonin commented: "The Respected Advisors is an all-start team. You know they are going to bring together an incredible collection of minds. I'm not really sure what they're doing putting me in that group but I'm going to really enjoy being part of it."

If you enjoyed our recent series on tech in Africa you might be interested in actually checking the situation out, on the ground, with the foremost tech experts on the continent.

This series on technology in Africa is written by Involution friends and emerging markets experts Niti Bhan and Muchiri Nyaggah.

This series on technology in Africa is written by Involution friends and emerging markets experts Niti Bhan and Muchiri Nyaggah.

This series on technology in Africa is written by Involution friends and emerging markets experts Niti Bhan and Muchiri Nyaggah.

This series on technology in Africa is written by Involution friends and emerging markets experts Niti Bhan and Muchiri Nyaggah.

This series on technology in Africa is written by Involution friends and emerging markets experts Niti Bhan and Muchiri Nyaggah.

I'm in the midst of a four week trip to downtown Venice in Santa Monica, a little enclave amidst the commercialism and sterility in this little part of the world. While driving down Wilshire the other day something inescapable hit me: Silicon Valley is the capitol of software, just like Hollywood is the capitol of movies and television.