Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Technology?

HuffPost's Game Changers series celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 12 categories who, whether working in the spotlight or under the radar, are changing how we look at the world and the way we live in it. We salute them for their willingness to look at things and take the risk of saying, "I think I have a better way."

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Changed the game by ... adding a sense of place to cyberspace. Crowley and Selvaduri are the co-founders of Foursquare, the location-based social networking app that allows people to tell the rest of the world precisely where they are. The start-up, sparked by an idea Crowley had a decade ago while studying at NYU, is on the shopping list of nearly every major tech company, as it adds nearly 100,000 users a week and kicks off competitions for "mayor" (most loyal visitor) of practically every coffee shop and skate park in America. It has harnessed the power of social networking to turn the world into a giant roach motel: everybody "checks in," maybe makes a new friend or gets some free food from the vendor nearby, and they never check out. All the right enemies: It's no coincidence that Facebook launched "Places" in the same year that Foursquare became a serious social-media draw. The interesting part? All the publicity for “Places” sent sign-ups skyrocketing for Foursquare, bringing it to the 3 million user mark earlier than expected. Must-click link: foursquare.com

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Changed the game by ... adding a sense of place to cyberspace. Crowley and Selvaduri are the co-founders of Foursquare, the location-based social networking app that allows people to tell the rest of the world precisely where they are. The start-up, sparked by an idea Crowley had a decade ago while studying at NYU, is on the shopping list of nearly every major tech company, as it adds nearly 100,000 users a week and kicks off competitions for "mayor" (most loyal visitor) of practically every coffee shop and skate park in America. It has harnessed the power of social networking to turn the world into a giant roach motel: everybody "checks in," maybe makes a new friend or gets some free food from the vendor nearby, and they never check out.

All the right enemies: It's no coincidence that Facebook launched "Places" in the same year that Foursquare became a serious social-media draw. The interesting part? All the publicity for “Places” sent sign-ups skyrocketing for Foursquare, bringing it to the 3 million user mark earlier than expected.

Must-click link: foursquare.com

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[sheine]

02:17 PM on 10/21/2010

Come on now. Nobody beats Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

[Troy Miles]

06:42 PM on 10/22/2010

Well Steve apparently did

[SteveDenver]

01:58 PM on 10/17/2010

SeeClickFix is a valuable community resource that is paid attention to by neighborhood groups, councilmembers, etc. in the City/County of Denver. I'm sure other cities are using it to keep track of problems. It is valuable and helpful.

Those adorable dorks who came up with SquareSpace should be lynched. I was furious to find out FaceBook decided to pinpoint my location without asking me first. It's another one of those "hamburger for your identity" swaps that makes social media an infuriating TRAP.

[Ed Bonyai]

10:22 PM on 10/05/2010

See Click Fix is one of the best online community resources there is. We use it fairly often and it DOES get things fixed.

[Name Not In Use]

06:07 AM on 10/22/2010

I got your fan virginity!

[Jason Kiesel]

04:52 PM on 10/05/2010

Is there any doubt at all that it's Steve Jobs? Come on people. Two of these other "game changers" wouldn't even exist without the iPhone.

[crayola 08b]

12:10 PM on 10/21/2010

exactly. and that's not to mention steve's game changing goes back over 30 years when he marketed the first personal computer people could actually have a use for.

[Benjo333]

09:07 PM on 10/04/2010

So obviously Steve...

[sunshineejc]

04:45 PM on 10/02/2010

Steve Jobs is hard to beat as ultimate Game changer in Tech. The exponential rise in share holder value in Apple stock speaks for itself. Good news should be that Jobs is not finished yet!

[Zach Stein]

12:17 PM on 10/06/2010

The terrible news is he's not finished yet. When he's done it'll be impossible to innovate in technology without paying him a royalty.

[Malcolm S]

10:43 PM on 10/01/2010

Check out Touch Taste Technologies at http://www.chicagoinnovationawards.com/nominations/view/12 for game changing technology.

[Onutz]

12:59 PM on 09/29/2010

Without Apple the future would look exactly like the past.

[Kiabell04]

10:11 PM on 09/27/2010

Well now....that Selvaduri guy is seriously cute! :)

[Code For Food]

07:08 PM on 09/27/2010

Oh, hey. It's Steve Jobs.

[So Cal Kramer]

05:52 PM on 09/27/2010

The answer is obvious.

Steve Jobs

[ThatBKChick]

03:30 PM on 09/27/2010

Ms. Ory Okolloh HANDS DOWN!

[cmaestas]

03:09 PM on 09/27/2010

Game Changer in Tech.... Where Craig Venter? You want game changing technology!

[SteveInRB]

12:02 PM on 09/27/2010

is the question "Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Technology?" a game changer?

[longnow]

11:18 AM on 09/27/2010

I keep seeing the black woman over and over.
I can never take my eyes off the small ones anyway.