Making a Difference - One App At a Time

When the iPhone was first launched by Apple (just a little over five years ago), it changed how we viewed a phone, but when apps were introduced, it really unleashed opportunities to change your life and the world.

While there's a lot of attention to apps that are popular, there are thousands of apps that do simple, but very life changing things.

As illustrated by Apple's video above, what if you could guide a blind man to walk with an app?

Make it easy to show 3D models of anatomy for children across the world in a small school room?

From the iPhone to iPad to Google's initiatives with smartphones and tablets, the world of potential app users continues to expand.

The world has an endless source of problems and need to change the world.

Fortunately, there's a lot of people developing apps for that.

Disruption, Engagement and Six Ways to Save the Internet | By Roger McNamee

via TED:

Roger McNamee is a co-founder of Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and entertainment content and consumer technology. Roger performs 100 shows a year in the band Moonalice, where he plays bass and guitar. Moonalice pioneered the use of social media in music, inventing such applications as Twittercast concerts, Moonalice radio on Twitter, live Mooncast (video) concerts, the Couch Tour. Moonalice's single, "It's 4:20 Somewhere" has been downloaded more than 845,000 times.

Roger is the author of The New Normal and The Moonalice Legend: Posters and Words. Roger serves on board of directors of Wordnik and Move. In philanthropy, he serves on the boards of directors of National Geographic Ventures, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Museum, and the Rex Foundation. Roger holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Next Steve Jobs? Meet 6th Grader Thomas Suarez

Thomas Suarez is a 6th grade student at a middle school in the South Bay. Tom been fascinated by computers and technology since before kindergarten. Recently, he's been focused on the development of applications for the iPhone, and has established his own company, CarrotCorp. His most successful ap is one he terms "an anti-Justin-Bieber game" called "Bustin Jieber". "It's is a variation on the Whac-a-Mole theme," he explains.

-Amazon: Biography of Steve Jobs