Did dodgeball Even Have a Chance?

Twitter took off, Dodgeball didn’t. I think Twitter have done what they do very well and the publicity they have gained in such a short space of time has been huge. Dodgeball just never captured people’s imaginations and never stood a chance.

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The founding developers of dodgeball.com have left google for good. I guess free food and a nice banner over your cubicle is not enticing enough to keep the entrepreneurial types satisfied. Twitter and dodgeball look like a tale of two cities on the surface but lets be realistic. Dodgeball was on the scene a long, long time and had plenty of opportunity to gain traction. Was dodgeball the twitter that could have been? I don’t think so.

Basically, dodgeball is a location-based social networking site for mobiles. You register, register your friends, and then “hook up” with others in your extended network. I’ll admit that the idea is enticing but it’s also why it didn’t succeed.
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