Turning the Real World into a Game

Dennis Crowley is the founder of Foursquare and formerly the Director of Product Development at area/code. He was the founder of dodgeball.com, a New York-based service which aims to coordinate social interactions between mobile users. His work focuses on finding the intersection between location-based services, social software and user-generated content on mobile devices.

He has developed and managed mobile applications for Vindigo, MTV Networks and ABC and was previously a member of Jupiter Research’s technology and operations research group.

His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Time Magazine, Newsweek, MTV, Slashdot and NBC and he has presented examples of his work at Microsoft and at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference.

Dennis holds a Master’s degree from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and a Bachelor’s degree from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.