On May 11th dodgeball.com was acquired by Google!

Q: Why did dodgeball sell to Google?
A: 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.

The people at Google think like us. They looked at us in a "You're two guys doing some pretty cool stuff, why not let us help you out and let's see what you can do with it" type of way. We liked that. Plus, Alex and I are both Google superfans and the people we've met so far are smart, cool and excited about what they're working on.

Q: What does the acquisition mean to dodgeball? What's going to change?
A: Now that we're part of Google, we'll have more resources available to us. That means Alex and I can get back to building new features. We have a lot of ideas that we've wanted to work on for a long time and we're excited that we will now have the time and resources to actually follow-through with them. There's some cool stuff in the works - stay tuned.

Q: What does the acquisition mean to dodgeball users?
A: We've adopted Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service as our own. You should have received a notice about these new terms. If you disagree with the terms or decide that you don't want to be a part of the new post-Google dodgeball, please delete your account.

While you can delete your account at any time, if you do so in the next 14 days, your account will be deleted immediately and the information in your profile will not be transferred over to Google.

Full story on http://seattle.dodgeball.com/aboutus_dball_google.php

http://www.dodgeball.com/

the meet crushes part is scary!

A very good move in to the youth mobile scene by Google!

I can't believe none of the other "venture capitalists" that were approached could see how massive this could be....

Google was smart to grab them when they did, they will be going hell for leather after this kind of venture.

Now google has it it'll be global in no time!!



Edit: PHONES BAYBEE!!! thats where it's at :rokk:

No doubt it has something to do with these :)

http://mobile.google.com/

and

http://local.google.com/

That local google rocks. :rokk:


In the big game though I just can't wait to see what fuck-ups msn drag along just to try and compete...

interesting site hadnt heard of it before now though

You need to get in to phones...


AND the mainstream sites that are running away with the things we should be in on....