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Feb 4 2009

After the demise of Dodgeball it should come as no surprise that Google came out with an almost identical concept. Instead of using SMS they went straight to GPS and smartphones. What an obvious way to promote Android! But sarcasm aside, it’s nice to see some movement in this sector despite the awkwardness in the demo video (your mom can track you on her GMaps? really? kinda-creepy). I can’t wait to see this hit the iPhone and non Android, Blackberry platforms for some growth.  This isn’t the ideal solution to see friends in realtime but it’s a start. 

After the demise of Dodgeball it should come as no surprise that Google came out with an almost identical concept. Instead of using SMS they went straight to GPS and smartphones. What an obvious way to promote Android! But sarcasm aside, it’s nice to see some movement in this sector despite the awkwardness in the demo video (your mom can track you on her GMaps? really? kinda-creepy). I can’t wait to see this hit the iPhone and non Android, Blackberry platforms for some growth. 

This isn’t the ideal solution to see friends in realtime but it’s a start. 

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Jan 15 2009

“Ah! And therein lies the crux of the problem with dodgeball and pretty much any other service on the internet or maybe everything: the assumption that everyone else will experience a piece of technology or media the exact same way you do. Gotta break it to you, son. Folks are different and do things in different ways. This painfully plain lesson seemed to be lost of my friends who used dodgeball often.”

This is an excellent post on the end of Dodgeball. Google’s experiment was flawed to begin with and this is exactly why it never got off the ground. 

turkeydinner  » On the (final) demise of Dodgeball.com

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