Google Acquires Dodgeball

kalki writes "Dodgeball.com, a service that uses mobile phones to help people meet up with friends who are in the same location, said on its website on Wednesday that it has been bought by Web search leader Google Inc. Also available on the official site is a Q&A about the deal." From the article: "As a two-person team, Alex and I have taken dodgeball about a far as we can alone. Since we finished grad school, we've been trying to figure out how to grow dodgeball and make it a better service along the way. We talked to a lot of different angel investors and venture capitalists, but no one really 'got' what we were doing - that is until we met Google."

Comments

Funny, Yes, but not funny for Google.

[mfh]

Yes, you made a funny statement. But this acquisition is not funny for Google. This is, perhaps, the first of many egregious errors on the part of Google. The technology behind Dodgeball.com is stupid.

Here's why...

If you don't know where your friends are -- they aren't your friends. So losers will use the service because they have no friends. They will use the service to find out where cool people are, but since no cool people are using the service, for obvious reasons, this service will turn into a real geekfest. Hence, the post, on Slashdot, about it.

On the other hand, if you want to know places you should avoid, perhaps using this service is not so bad, as long as you don't key in your location.