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Dodgeball: Text Your Location To Friends

Posted by timothy on from the marco-polo-marco-polo-marco-polo dept.

iseff writes "I was listening to NPR yesterday in the car and they ran a piece about this new service called Dodgeball. It's essentially a social networking site, except it's based pretty extensively on text messaging. When you go out for the night, you txt the main dodgeball server your location. It then txt's your friends where you are so they can meet you. It can also tell you who is close-by where you are and how you are connected to those people. It seems like a more 'sticky' and applicable use for social networking when compared to Friendster or orkut (which are always very popular when they launch and then quickly fade). Could this maybe be a decent use to social networking that will last? Or will this bust just as fast?"

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  1. Or... by xNoLaNx · · Score: 2, Funny

    will bad ryhming end your hopes for honest replies?

  2. It's Saturday Night! by LoztInSpace · · Score: 5, Funny

    I M IN MOMS BSMNT. LOL.

  3. Happy Gilmore by sik0fewl · · Score: 2, Funny
    Could this maybe be a decent use to social networking that will last? Or will this bust just as fast?

    Yeah, why don't I go eat some hay. I can make things out of clay, or lay by the bay, I just may. Whaddya say?

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  4. Your Guide to Comments on This Story by Nova+Express · · Score: 3, Funny
    Step 1. Comment how this falsely assumes that Geeks have social lives.

    Step 2: Insert comment about text messaging from your parent's basement.

    Step 3: ???

    Step 4: Karma!

    Step 5: CowboyNeal

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  5. Wait a second... by TheSpoom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why was "FBI" just added to my friends list?

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  6. Re:Ring them? by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Once you have 20-30 people in a group of friends.....

    ...you have to start coming up with better excuses to avoid them.

  7. Re:How does the site make money? by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 4, Funny
    how does a business succeed based on this technology?

    Why are you letting those pesky little details get in the way? These guys are Visionary Thought Leaders! Start looking at the Big Picture! See? It's there on your phone! And, you can send that picture TO people!

  8. One thing must be assumed, however... by TheDarkener · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that the people participating actually leave their houses on the weekends...

    Dodgeball_SMS(7:30p)Slashdotter_Location: Bedroom
    Dodgeball_SMS(8:00p)Slashdotter_Location: Bathroom
    Dodgeball_SMS(8:30p)Slashdotter_Location : Bedroom

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  9. This could be really useful by rudy_wayne · · Score: 5, Funny


    for stalkers.

  10. Re:Ring them? by mottie · · Score: 3, Funny
    but if you have more than five friends

    who the heck has more than five err.. yeah.. thats a really good point, this will really help me easily let my fans know where i'm going.

  11. Given the name "Dodgeball"... by uberdave · · Score: 3, Funny

    Given that the name of the service is called Dodgeball, I presume that the target audience is the fat slow-moving kids with the glasses. You know, the uncoordinated, clumsy ones who are socially inept and... post on... Slashdot...

    Hey, You know what they need here? An Unpost Button.


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  12. Re:Ring them? by tftp · · Score: 2, Funny
    Another version could detect the presence of drunk members of the opposite sex via a signal sent out by their phone.

    If you need an electronic device to detect the presence of members of the opposite sex (drunk or not) then you probably wouldn't be capable of making any use out of a successful detection :-)

  13. Re:Have we really gotten that lazy... by bradipo · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just don't walk out in front of me during my viewing of a movie or I may just be tempted to stick my leg out.

  14. Re:I can mail my GPS location TODAY in japan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ooo, you're SOOO cool, you're in Japan. It's like being in the future! I bet you get all the best cartoons and comic books there!