Josh Babetski

Founder of micro-business developing social location gaming and entertainment applications. Director of Social and Local Products for an Interactive media company. Formally a Senior Product Manager and company Evangelist for MapQuest, a top-20 Internet brand.

Fourteen years experience cross-functional roles including product management, product marketing, programming, and community management. Expertise in social media, location services, mobile, start-up and technology culture. Ability to communicate competitive information, analysis and trends in technology industry for potential marketplace risks and opportunities. Can effectively communicate to various stakeholders at the appropriate detail levels.

1. Product Development
2. Product Management
3. Web Development
4. Web Applications
5. Product Marketing
6. Social Media
7. Entrepreneur
8. Mobile Applications
9. Agile
10. Location Based Services
11. Geospatial
12. Front-end Development
13. Iterative
14. Product Evangelism
15. Viral Marketing
16. Casual Games
17. Mobile Games
18. Python
19. User Experience
20. HTML5
21. CSS
22. JavaScript
23. API
24. Linux
25. Git
26. New Business Development
27. jQuery
28. Program Management
29. Social Games
30. Stakeholder Engagement
31. Community Engagement
32. Django

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• Systems and methods for collecting and using user-contributed map data

  • United States Patent Application 2009/0292462 A1
  • Filed May 22, 2008
  Inventors: Josh Babetski

  Systems and methods are provided for collecting and using user-contributed map data. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for collecting maneuver-specific annotations.

• Methods and Systems for Decluttering Icons Representing Points Of Interest On A Map

  • United States Patent Application 20090100363
  • Filed October 6, 2008
  Inventors: Josh Babetski, Antony Pegg, Angie Olivero, CUA, Gopakumar Sivanpillai, Anil Matthew

  Methods and systems are provided for decluttering icons on a map graphically presented on a display.

Websites:

• Josh Babetski
• Collective Detective
• Collectivus

Interests:

product management, product marketing, advertainment, viral marketing, location, geosocial, transmedia, social games, social gaming, entrepreneur, start-up, web development, linux, gadgets, emerging technologies, innovation, travel, mountain biking, movies, media, video games, pop culture trivia.