1. Michael Ryan Ginn leads qy®' corporation. Its ground- breaking social technology is based on advances in his research at Stanford University. qy funded its new technology by providing software solutions to Fortune 500 companies.
Founder and CEO, Realize.com
Completed seed-round financing and built a core team.
 Realize.com reached the market first with key social media innovations:
o Participants liked good posts to reach more people.
o Likes also accumulated qy Points redeemable for airline miles, charity donations, flowers and chocolates.
o Participants created viral petitions.
 Realize reached 1M participants.
 StockMaster.com acquired Realize to increase "stickiness" for their 10M users
 BA Social Psychology, honors, Phi Beta Kappa
 MS Computer Science, distinction, Tau Beta Pi
 Visiting Scholar
In the USPTO database, patents average 3 references.

2. System and Method for Facilitating Interactive Electronic Communication through Acknowledgment of positive contributive behavior.
United States 6275811.
Referenced 87 times.
Method and Apparatus for Simultaneously Indicating Rating Value for the First Document and Display of Second Document in Response to the Selection.
United States 6362837.
Referenced 66 times.
Method for Aggregate Control on an Electronic Network.
United States 6052723
Referenced 60 times.
Wrote Realize the Internet, which discussed the use of misinformation to preserve privacy and the dangers of growing, isolated micro-cultures.
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