Comments on: DodgeBall founder quits Google

By: Why I Love Foursquare – GigaOM

Why I Love Foursquare – GigaOM — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:51:51 +0000

[...] he’s building the product he wanted to build with Dodgeball, but couldn’t. (He had an acrimonious and very public split with Google.) Crowley believes that if you make software that allows people to discover new places and [...]

By: Googleball | Locuras del web

Googleball | Locuras del web — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:19:45 +0000

[...] About two years later, both the founder and the second employee of Dodgeball leave Google, saying: It’s no real secret that Google wasn’t supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The [...]

By: ThisGlobe.com Blogs » Google Closes Many Services

ThisGlobe.com Blogs » Google Closes Many Services — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:10:02 +0000

[...] updated in 2006, Dodgeball, a mobile social network acquired by Google in 2005 that stagnated after its founders left Google, and Mapshup Editor, a project that will be replaced by the more powerful Google App [...]

By: Thai Brothers’ Sharing Blog » Blog Archive » Google Closes Many Services

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:08:33 +0000

By: 3G iPhones 4U | Loopt 3G iPhone

3G iPhones 4U | Loopt 3G iPhone — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:51:22 +0000

[...] others also share that vision. Google seems to have abandoned their Dodgeball acquisition, but they could reinvest in this space and leverage the hundreds of millions of Google accounts in [...]

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By: Google ain’t shit « Tech Merkin

Google ain’t shit « Tech Merkin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:58:29 +0000

[...] Dodgeball: Founders disllusioned. Never merged with Orkut. Pwnd by Twitter and Jaiku. [...]

By: Speaker City » links for 2007-04-17

Speaker City » links for 2007-04-17 — Sat, 05 May 2007 19:55:04 +0000

[...] GigaOM » DodgeBall founder quits Google DodgeBall suffered from apathy and not much happened with the service that once was a coast-to-coast rage. (tags: dodgeball) [...]

By: Facebook was Twitter before there was Twitter | King Gary

Facebook was Twitter before there was Twitter | King Gary — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:46:15 +0000

[...] already), it appears as though Facebook has just begun to chip away at Twitter (which already chipped away heavily at Dodgeball.) Add to that the fact that Twitter has suffered a lot of server downtime due to its [...]

By: Daniel Nicolas

Daniel Nicolas — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:15:28 +0000

Jeremy Zawodny: Not I that thinks that Flickr is stagnating… I’m a huge fan & paid through 2009…

By: Startup Meme » Dodgeball founders quit Google

Startup Meme » Dodgeball founders quit Google — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:49:33 +0000

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By: Headlines of Note for April 16, 2007

Headlines of Note for April 16, 2007 — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:14:38 +0000

[...] DodgeBall founder quits Google [...]

By: Fred Savage

Fred Savage — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:43:47 +0000

“coast to coast rage”? That service had a couple thousand people max. Google is into successful stuff, not press hype.

By: Nick Hawkins

Nick Hawkins — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:17:57 +0000

I thought Dodgeball died a quiet death. Well, that teaches me to think that a stupid idea just dies…

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:13:10 +0000

I can’t help but wonder what this says about G’s acquistion strategies- it seems to me like Google is not interested in buying any sort of idea/work structure, but just raw market share and then incorporating it into their own models.

By: Exodus from DodgeBall - Google’s Growth Working Against Innovation? « TechFold

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:33:29 +0000

[...] Om covers the departure of DodgeBall’s founder and first employee from the Googleplex. Of particular note is the comment in the departing team member’s announcement: It’s no real secret that 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. [...]