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  • DodgeBall - another mobile social network

    While we don’t see many of the new pure desktop web-based social networks appearing these days, the mobile social networking space is booming as never before. We’ve already covered several such services in the past, and today we’re presenting you with DodgeBall . Just like some of the services we’ve seen before, DodgeBall relies heavily on SMS to allow users with virtually any mobile phone to schmooze while on-the-go. In addition to “standard feature set,” the new service provides users with some kind of rating mechanism giving you an ability to “fancy someone” on scale between 1 and 5 crushes. That being said, I can easily envision DodgeBall’s key selling point being the mobile dating, and not just chatting and exchanging emails with your buddies. The system also has the location component built inside, hence it can inform you when someone with enough “crushes” is in the neighborhood. Let’s just hope stalkers won’t use it. [Via: Great Dating Services ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Kylie Minogue beats *** cancer, launches mobile social networkYahoo may Buy UK Social Network Bebo for $1BMobile social networking in JuneO2 brings MySpace and Facebook to mobile users in the UKMobile Social Network Peekamo Brings Free SMS-Text To Your Cell Phone
  • Dodgeball Founder Quits Google

    The founder of SMS social networking company Dodgeball , Dennis Crowley, has quit Google complaining that the search giant didn’t put any resources into the network, notes GigaOM … Alex Rainert, “employee #2 for DodgeBall”, has also quit. This is surprising, since Dodgeball was big when Google bought it, and it was well-placed to ride the mobile growth wave. In a fairly novel announcement, on his Flickr site of Crowley he wrote “Google wasn’t supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us - especially as we couldn’t convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources, leaving us to watch as other startups got to innovate in the mobile + social space”. Using Yahoo to announce his resignation from Google… Crowley is joining big game developer area/code while Rainert has joined IconNicholson as a Creative Strategist focusing on mobile and emerging technologies.
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