Dodgeball (service)

Dodgeball

Genre	Social networking
Founded	2000
Founder	Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert
Defunct	Shut down in February 2009
Fate	acquired by Google in 2005
Successors	Google Latitude, Foursquare
Key people	Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert
Owner	Google

Dodgeball was a location-based social networking software provider for mobile devices. Users texted their locations to the service, which then notified them of crushes, friends, friends' friends, and interesting venues nearby. Google acquired Dodgeball in 2005 and discontinued it in 2009, replacing it with Google Latitude.^[1]