Google Buys Dodgeball - Mobile Social Networking tool
About a year after the launch of Orkut, according to News.com, Dodgeball the Social Networking service announced with a notice on their Homepage that as of Wednesday this week they were acquired by Google.
From what I see, Dodgeball is like a mobile version of Friendster. Tell them where you are via a mobile device and they’ll tell you who’s nearby, which is a really cool concept. The service takes social networking and integrates an almost GPS sort of functionality which is a pretty obvious next step for these “people connector” sorts of services.
I really havn't played with Orkut or Dodgeball personally, but I can see a pattern emerging after the Yahoo360 launch and now these Googles moves. How long until MSN comes out with more social networking features for Spaces and Messenger? Not long I would assume….
