Dennis Crowley
Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976 ) is an American Internet entrepreneur who is best known as the co-founder of the portals Dodgeball and Foursquare .
Crowley is a bachelor's graduate from Syracuse University 's SI Newhouse School of Public Communications. He founded Dodgeball together with his fellow student Alex Rainert as a student at New York University in 2000. Dodgeball was bought by Google Inc. in 2005 . Crowley created a second version of the Dogeball service called Foursquare in 2009. Foursquare offers location-based mobile phone services and in September 2010 had over 3 million users worldwide.
The online magazine AskMen.com lists Dennis Crowley as number 19 in the top 49 most influential men of 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tim Adams: Will Foursquare be the new Twitter? , The Guardian. April 25, 2010.
- ↑ Polytechnic University paper ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://business.chip.de/artikel/Location-Based-Services-als-Marketing-Tool_45400472.html
- ^ Rao, Leena: Foursquare Now 3 Million Strong , TechCrunch.com. August 29, 2010.
- ↑ Dennis Crowley Top49 Men , askmen.com. October 31, 2010.
Web links
- Crowley's personal website (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Crowley, Dennis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American internet entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |