Dodgeball, the texting service that pings your friends in close proximity, is biting the bullet.
Google’s announced they’re closing or ceasing development of a variety of products as part of an already continuing move to keep efforts focused on other products with greater usage. These include an end to video uploads to Google Video, closure of Google Catalog Search, Google Notebook, Dodgeball, the microblogging service Jaiku and the Google Mashup Editor.
If you never signed up for Dodgeball—despite pleas from friends who wanted to know you were scarfing Indian buffet down the block—now is the time to laugh at them. Google also has announced that it will close three offices and lay off 100 employees.
They’ve already clarified that they’re not laying off 100 employees. They’re hoping those employees will relocate to new offices, and if not they’ll fill the positions with new hires.
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I think most of the people who used it were in Seattle… kind of like Google’s Orkut and Brazil. Some of us nerds are whipping up a replacement. It will basically be dodgeball but without the mistreatment and neglect.
as long as it’s better than whrrl. And BrightKite, and Loopt, and and and
I hope the barcode scanner app for Android still works.
@3, yes, there are far too many more-annoying replacements. There’s also Tw____r, but I’d rather not get SMSes of random deep thoughts that people have while sitting on the toilet.
This is looking like a simple replacement for Dodgeball, no more.
@4 why wouldn’t it?
Google – isn’t that like Altavista?
Ah, sigh. I can’t say that I liked Dodgeball especially, but as a sometimes event organizer, I found it useful for efficiently disseminating information to a crowd.
I have never heard of this thing, ever. And I thought I kept up on things…
I signed up for Dodgeball just because it’s going away. Now I can feel sad when it shuts the doors.