Super Bowl Ad Seemingly Inspired by Silicon Valley Startup

Super Bowl Ad Seemingly Inspired by Silicon Valley Startup

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In an attempt to maintain their 'Geekiness' Best Buy ran an advertisement during the Super Bowl highlighting some great innovators with the "I Created..." headline, but this is nothing new for Geeklist.com, a Silicon Valley startup gaining attention globally. "Our entire product is based on the 'I create' or 'I built' concept. It's the best way for us to highlight great work by developers." Stated Reuben Katz, the Geeklist CEO and Co-founder. Geeklist launched in private beta last August and uses Achievement Cards to showcase great work developers have done. "This is the first ever Achievement-based platform, allowing us to see who built what, what technologies they used to build it and who they built it with," Katz continued.

What makes the Best Buy use of the "I created..." so interesting to Geeklist co-founders is the fact that one of the Copywriters for Best Buy's ad agency, Crispin, Porter and Bogusky, is also inside the Geeklist Private Beta here: geekli.st/pug and has been for many months.

Some of the great developers inside Geeklist write in their Achievement Cards "I Created Ruby" as written by Yukihiro Matsumoto, the real father of Ruby programming language. Or one can find the creator of PHP, or more interesting to mainstream "I built Twitter," or the creator of the Airbnb mobile pages, or the person who can claim "I built iGoogle from the ground up."

So, while Best Buy certainly takes a nice shot at mainstreaming the creator of Instagram, Geeklist is the real deal, in real-time, showcasing the worlds most valuable resources every day... Developers.

Geeklist, Inc. (@gklst) is an Achievement-based social platform for developers to showcase their work. They help developers that would normally never be known get credit for the great work they do. In turn they help companies showcase their work to developers and find developers interested in working for them. Geeklist is a California-based company with offices in San Francisco, NYC and Paris. Located virtually at http://geekli.st and physically in the heart of San Francisco's SoMa startup scene inside RocketSpace at 181 Fremont Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105. For inquiries please contact: rkatz@geekli.st - 858.688.6106

SOURCE Geeklist, Inc.

Geeklist, Inc.

Web Site: http://www.geekli.st

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