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New social app Foursquare is Dodgeball Part Deux

Dodgeball was legend amongst Internet social junkies. This cool mobile app let you know where your friends and crushes were, and made meeting up easy. It was so beloved that there was a farewell party in San Francisco when the site shut down. Something with that much community support can't stay dead for long, though, so now there's Foursquare, a Dodgeball "sequel" from one of the guys behind Dodgeball.

So, what does Foursquare do? Like Dodgeball, it lets you check in from your phone when you go somewhere. Foursquare has several ways to do this, via iPhone, a mobile web interface, or good old text messaging. Foursquare also has Twitter integration, so you can get/send checkins through Twitter's direct message interface. It's launched in 12 cities so far, so go check if yours is supported. Dodgeball is dead, long live Dodgeball.

Filed under: News, Google, Web

It's the end of Google Video, Notebook, and Jaiku as we know it

Google Video Uploads
Google has announced plans to close, stop development of, or dramatically alter a number of services including Google Video, Google Notebook, Google Catalog Search, Jaiku, Dodgeball, and Google Mashup Editor.

Some of the services will still be around for a while, but active development has stopped which means there won't be any new features for Google Notebook or Google Video. And in a few months Google will stop accepting new uploads for Google Video which means the site will function as a video search engine and a repository of old videos.

Google Catalog Search is going away altogether, as is Dodgeball and Google Mashup Editor. Micro-blogging service Jaiku will live on as an open source project that will be maintained by volunteers from Google and outside.

Yesterday Google also wrote on its official blog that the company is eliminating about 100 recruiting jobs and may lose some of its engineering staff as the company tries to relocate some job positions.

[via Search Engine Land]

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google, Social Software

Dodgeball gets teh Googlage

Dodgeball Login pageDodgeball, everyone's favorite ubiquitous mobile presence/stalking utility, has just began allowing logins with one's Google account credentials. This isn't surprising in and of itself, seeing that the big G bought dodgeball quite a while back, the timing is a bit confounding. While dodgeball use is still strong with a small core group of users, mainly in San Francisco, the service has mostly dropped off the map to most potential clients. One would think that when opening the service up the entire Google user base, there would be some marketing push to get dodgeball back in the limelight, but as of yet nothing has shown up on the internets. In any case, this is certainly a sign of greater things to come; perhaps in the form of some GooTube integration. Chris Messina has some commentary on the matter.

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