Alex Rainert, a co-founder of Dodgeball, is joining Foursquare as head of product, according to a post on Rainert’s blog.
Rainert was a seed investor in the location based social network, and has been working part time with the team over the past two months on product development. Of course, this is also a reunion between Rainert and Foursquare CEO and co-founder Dennis Crowley. They both founded Dodgeball together. The location based service was acquired by Google in May of 2005. Rainert and Crowley subsequently left Google. Dodgeball was shut down buy Google in January of last year.
Rainert has been running his own product development consultancy, Tinker Studio. According to Rainert’s post, he’s wrapping projects and will not take on any new jobs for now. He alluded to some new features he’s working on with Foursquare, so it should be interesting to see what the startup has up its sleeve.
Foursquare is a geographical location based social network that incorporates gaming elements. Users share their location with friends by “checking in” via a smartphone app or by text message. Points are awarded for checking in at various venues. Users can connect their Foursquare accounts to their Twitter and Facebook accounts, which can update when a check in is registered. By checking in a certain number of times, or in different locations, users can collect virtual badges. In addition, users...
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