#competition platform

Five hundred billion. That’s the number of devices that will be connected to the Internet by 2030 according to some estimates. And that’s not just computers and smartphones. We’re talking about things like cars, home appliances, manufacturing equipment, etc. If a device is powered, it’s likely it will be “web-enabled” at some point in the not-too-distant future. Cisco is looking to promote advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) through its Cisco Innovation Challenge, which is powered by the Skild competition platform.

About the Challenge

The Cisco Innovation Challenge is open to students and recent alumni from any college or university. The competition seeks innovative ideas in a number of areas, including:

Local industry/economic development

Critical human needs (food, water, shelter, and disaster relief)

Healthcare

Economic empowerment/financial inclusion

Education

Environment

Connectivity

The President’s Innovation Challenge at Harvard University encourages the school’s student body to explore challenges facing the world and find ways to meet those challenges. The goal of the competition platform is to help solve issues facing our healthcare system, the sciences, and society in general, but also to make progress in areas that aren’t easily categorized.

Flurry checked the time consumers spend across different application categories when using smartphone. In this period, they calculated that consumers spent 25 minutes (37%) of their app-using time in Games.

It's amazing that 37% of the people spend time on games. Now think how many people will love to play games with friends J

PlayerDuel – Never alone, play with friends.

We’re excited to announce that Friendzy by Ricardo Santos has joined PlayerDuel for IOS.

Bringing the famous Tet-style block dropping with a new twist - the blocks are your friends! Stack them quickly and carefully, connect 4 or more to clear them.

Easy to get the hang of, you will need a quick mind and quicker reflexes to become the puzzle master.

Friendzy now features a new Challenge mode which supports the competition platform PlayerDuel. Through PlayerDuel, you can challenge friends and other players from around the world to beat the scores that you set. You can also share competition results, get statistic info and earn virtual coins by winning competitions!

Download Friendzy (iPhone) here!

Developers: Ricardo Santos has integrated the PlayerDuel mobile SDK, giving players the ability to compete against friends and other players from around the world to beat the scores that you set. You can also share competition results, get statistic info and earn virtual coins by winning competitions!

Integrate the PlayerDuel SDK into your game and you will be a part of the largest social competition network for mobile games and have an opportunity to be featured in the PlayerDuel blog. You can start the integration process here.

After months of hard work we are happy to say that we are live.

Yes, it's still on Beta but you can download our platform and enjoy it.

Get PlayerDuel on your iPhone here: http://itunes.apple.com/app/playerduel/id481174627?mt=8

We are looking for game developers that have iPhone games and want to turn their games into a competitive experience.

PlayerDuel platform can make the game viral, increase the lifespan of the games and monetize games in a unique way.

We decided to start with a viable product that supports several features:

- Duel – compete with one facebook friend.

- Multi-challenge – compete with several facebook friends.

- Global-challenge – compete with players from all around the world.

We are creating a competition platform for games and we are going to add many new competitive element to PlayerDuel in the next few months.

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook, Your feedback is always welcome.

The PlayerDuel family