Posts Tagged with ‘dodgeball’

Lately Google has been making a lot of moves to increase its footprint on the mobile web, with the recent acquisition of GrandCentral and launch of AdSense for mobile, but one of their first mobile services has almost been forgotten.
Mobile social software Dodgeball, which was purchased by Google in 2005, basically allowed users to notify other users of their location, thereby allowing them to meet for, say, a drink at the bar. It had a lot of potential as a [...]

Google, a common brand and verb among technology and non-technology enthusiasts, is growing at an enormous rate! People can recognize this growth because of its many acquisitions of companies (ten so far this year), such as the seven major Web 2.0 products/services mentioned below (in the order of acquisition date) which consumes a good part of the internet pie:
Blogger.com: This was one of the most popular blogging networks, which was acquired by Google in February 2003. It has a huge [...]

Django-powered and all sorts of Web 2.0, the mobile social network Groovr is very new (launched Dec 29th, 2006) and, according to Mashable!, “impressive”. I won’t go so far as to give it the “better” or “best” treatment in the face of competition from the likes of popular items such as JuiceCaster, Wadja, Dodgeball, and Socialight (Mashable! has a larger list of MSNs if you’re looking to compare Groovr to a particular favorite of yours not mentioned here), but if [...]

dodgeball is a mobile social networking community that joined the Google family way back in May 2005.
It is currently only available to 22 states in the US. Recently Google accounts have been intergrated into dodgeball.
The service is based on a very simple concept, you just need to send a text message to Google and it will help you to inform your friends and friends of your friends about your location where they can meet you for a drink if they’re [...]