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

    I M IN MOMS BSMNT. LOL.

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

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

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  3. 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.

  4. 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!

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


    for stalkers.