Have you played Dodgeball Lately?
I had to read about it in Time Magazine this week. A service that lets you text one main site your wearabouts and inform your friends, friend of friends, and your crushes where you are.
The site: Dodgeball.com. The parent company: Google. Tha’ts right maybe I missed the boat but Google has added yet another company to it’s arsenal of internet empire.
Dodgeball.com is a social information network. If you’re in one of their 22 cities across the United States you’re in luck. You can signup, choose your friends, choose some crushes, and begin to text your Happy Hour location. Within minutes you’ll get notified if any of your friends or friends of friends or crushes are in the area.
Then those friends will get notified of where you are, with address and be invited to join you. One text message to get all your friends in the same place.
You can also text the bar name to get detailed address data sent back to you.
The crush thing seems interesting. You have to choose a crush and then they will be notified if they are within ten blocks of you. I guess that’s a good way to stay away from your stalkers. Pretty soon GPS will just let you know where these wierdos are.
An interesting idea. Although they don’t have it here in Hawaii I’m not sure if I would use it but let me know if any of you are part of the new text messaging craze!
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Time: April 9, 2007, 7:27 am
[...] I guess there are a few roads that the company could take to monetize and it’s an interesting idea. Getting your family members involved and showing where they are in the world. Sounds something right up Googles alley and a drop in their bucket in terms of buying it. Google did buy dodgeball.com. [...]
Comment from Los Angeles Orange County Nissan Toyota Honda
Time: August 25, 2006, 1:46 pm
Yeah, dodgeball is a neat idea. I just haven’t gotten into the text messaging thing and perhaps I’m too much of a stay at home kind of guy to use dodgeball.
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