Link: dodgeball.com :: mobile social soft­ware.

“Big news, dodge­ball fans! On May 11th dodgeball.com was acquired by Google! I’m sure a lot of you have some ques­tions about what this means for you and the future of dodge­ball, so we put together a quick Q&A. Let us know if you have any other questions!

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.”

Mobile prox­im­ity net­works are com­ing into their own, with the launch of Nokia Sen­sor this week and Google’s acqui­si­tion of Dodge­Ball yes­ter­day (see also MobiLuck). Dodge­ball works through the “friend of a friend” approach, like LinkedIn, whereas Nokia Sensor’s Folio fea­ture allows users to con­nect based on com­mon inter­ests (see com­ments about “object-centered social­ity” by Jyri Engestrom.

There’s more to come.

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