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	TIME Magazine: 50 Coolest Websites - 8.21.2006 [ scan ] Let your mobile device improve your social life. Use this service to corral your friends for a drink or find out where they're already hanging.
	New York Times - Sunday Styles - 7.9.2006 [ scan ] Weather forecasts, directions, stock quotes, traffic reports, and more can be at your fingertips with simple text messages on any mobile phone. It's just a matter of knowing where to look. Below are a few of the best services. They don't cost more than what your carrier charges for a text message - so whip out your phone and give them a whirl.
	Business Week - 5.15.2006 [ scan ] Weather forecasts, directions, stock quotes, traffic reports, and more can be at your fingertips with simple text messages on any mobile phone. It's just a matter of knowing where to look. Below are a few of the best services. They don't cost more than what your carrier charges for a text message - so whip out your phone and give them a whirl.
	Discover Magazine - September 2005 [ scan: pg 1 | pg 2 ] Dodgeball suggests an intriguing twist on long tail theory. As the technology increasingly allows us to satisfy more eclectic needs, any time those needs require a physical presence-whether it's sipping your cold soup or meeting your crush in a bar-the logic of the long tail will favor urban environments over less densely populated ones...
	NY1 - 04.14.2005 [ read ] ...what seems to be making Dodgeball so popular right now, is that it's both easy to use and all you need is any phone that allows you to text message.
	New York Magazine - 03.21.2005 [ read ] When Dodgeball users "check in" at a given locale by sending out a text message, it goes to all their preselected friends, as well as any friends of friends within a ten-block radius. A photo is sent along with the alert-which helps with identifying near strangers. Introductions are made, beer is poured, and then hookups can occur-casually, and in a low-pressure environment, all under the guise of knowing someone in common. It's Friendster, except in real time and in the real world.
	Wired News - 03.08.2005 [ read ] "I can't tell you how many people I've met through this," said McGunigle. "It has not only simplified my socializing habits, but has allowed me to meet people I would not have met otherwise."
	IEEE Spectrum - 03.2005 [ read ] "Whenever a popular new technology has appeared, from piano rolls to VCRs, people have always questioned its viability because it doesn't look like the old model but in the end, we've always found a way to pay for the things people like doing," says Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. "So if people keep finding value in it, it will be viable as a business." Get a look at how the interview was conducted in Backstory
	USA Today - 02.13.2005 [ read ] Dating on the fly - You're walking around town when a text message pops up on your phone, along with a photo of a rather attractive stranger. The prospective companion is nearby and would love to meet for a drink. Seem far-fetched? Members of Dodgeball.com can choose up to five "crushes" online and receive alerts when they're within 10 blocks of their location. The free "opt-in" service is available in 22 cities; Dodgeballers sign in by telling the company their location.
	PC World - 02.2005 [ read ] The New Web Challengers If you're on the road and looking to hook up with some friends, use Dodgeball.com and your mobile phone to broadcast your whereabouts to your buddies. Send a text message to the site stating your location, and in no time all the pals on your Dodgeball.com network will get the message (you can also send them a photo, if your phone has a built-in camera). They'll find out what you're up to--and where they can join you. And if a friend of one of your friends is within ten blocks, they'll get a message as well.
	Corante - 01.14.2005 [ read ] The Future of Wireless The Future of Wireless is an ongoing interview series sponsored by Earthlink Wireless that examines how wireless is impacting businesses and individuals and the ways they connect, interact, find and share data, improve productivity, and more. First up: Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert, the founders of Dodgeball, the the mobile social networking service that's based in New York and which aims to coordinate social interactions between mobile users.
	New York Times Magazine - 12.26.2004 [ scan ] Consumed Services pop up that allow us to locate our friends while out on the town (like Dodgeball.com), and services pop up that help us pretend to be one place when we're really someplace else (like the online "Alibi and Excuse Club")
	New York Times Magazine - 11.2004 [ scan ] 101 Ideas, People and Trends that will change the way we work and live in 2005 #62 MoSoSo : Think Friendster meets Vindigo. Mobile social software connects people through wireless phones using location-based services. Examples include Wavemarket and Dodgeball.
	Newsweek - 11.2004 [ scan ] Since it launched in May, Dodgeball has picked up 13,000 subscribers in 22 cities. To an advertiser, that's critical mass, and Absolut has started an ad campaign on the service.
	Mobile PC - 10.2004 [ page | closeup ] With dodgeball.com, you may never drink alone again.
	Philadelphia Citypaper.net - 09.22.2004 [ read ] But for social butterflies in an increasing number of cities, Dodgeball is something that's changing the way they go out and socialize. Hailed as "Friendster for mobile phones," Dodgeball.com, a free service compatible with any alpha-numeric text message-compatible phone, is keeping people connected to their friends and "friends-of-friends" while out and about in their local bars, clubs and restaurants.
	NPR - 08.23.2004 [ read (and listen!) ] A new cellphone service called dodgeball helps people meet up with their friends on the fly, via mobile phone. The free service has more in common with social software that originally started on the Internet rather than traditional phone-company offerings. Some people call it "Friendster for your cellphone;" others say it can "speed up serendipity."
	Red Herring - 08.11.2004 [ read ] (reg. required) In the United States, Dodgeball.com, which doesn't need Bluetooth, is a new and free mobile phone-based service that enables its subscribers to find friends within a 10-block area. A user sends a text message with his or her location to Dodgeball, and the server relays the message to the user's selected list of friends. It also notifies the user of any friends, or friends-of-friends, who are within the 10-block range.
	Wall Street Journal - 08.02.2004 [ scan ] The company's deal with Absolut shows how mobile marketers are trying to ensure that even people who opt to receive text-message ads aren't overwhelmed by them. Dodgeball users who choose to receive Absolut-sponsored venue recommendations based on their location will get them just three times a week -- at 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays and midnight Saturdays.
	Popular Science - 08.2004 [ read ] Dodgeball is like Friendster with a point. Register at dodgeball.com, then text the site with your whereabouts and it will alert you if any friends or friends of friends are within a 10-block radius. Those with cameraphones will even get a photo. Currently available in Boston, New York and eight other U.S. cities; more by this fall.
	MIT Technoogy Review - 07.12.2004 [ read ] The buzz about Dodgeball gives one glimpse of the future of the mobile phone. Probably no other product in human history has evolved and been adopted worldwide so quickly. Hundreds of millions of people own a mobile phone, and many replace it every year or so. Its use has already changed how many societies communicate. It already comes with good social connection services such as group text messaging and the ability to share camera-phone snapshots directly with friends or on a mobile weblog. But it's about to produce far more radical changes in how we communicate.
	Los Angeles Times - 07.08.2004 [ scan ] Yes, on the Dodgeball site, you can assemble your circle of friends, which then gives you access to your friends' friends. (Dodgeball doesn't let you go beyond two degrees of separation.) Dodgeball can also filter certain friends from receiving your text messages; say you've accepted an invitation from your idiot co-worker to maintain an amicable work environment, but you really don't want him cramping your style outside the office.
	WIRED Magazine - July 2004 (p. 30) [ scan ] MoSoSo: Acronym for mobile social software, a Friendster-like service for cell phones. Coined after the launch of Dodgeball.com, the first MoSoSo provider.
	WIRED Magazine - June 2004 (p. 54) [ scan ] Combining the functions of IM, Friendster, and Citysearch, the new mobile social software lets you form "flashmobs with your friends," says founder Dennis Crowley.
	TIME Magazine - 5.31.2004 : read A posse that fits in the palm of your hand...
	Tech Review - 5.13.2004 Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor of communications at N.Y.U., predicts that with a little time and fine tuning, software that "caters to users' geography rather than their affinities" will take off with the same force Friendster did two years ago. "It has already been successful," Mr. Shirky said. "But eventually, Dennis and Alex are going to figure out uses and applications they hadn't even thought of before."
	Newsweek - 5.10.2004 [ scan ] Dodgeball launched last month in New York and is now in Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and L.A.; 4,500 people have signed on. That's paltry compared with Friendster's 7.5 million hipsters or the 100,000 college students logged on to Thefacebook.com. But give Dodgeball time. Only 30 percent of cell owners send text messages but that's double what the number was two years ago, according to Frank N. Magid Associates. Still, "how desperate are we?" asks Duncan Watts, author of "Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age." That's the question. That, and "Is she cute?"
	Corante - 4.17.2004 [ read ] "The quickie description "Friendster for Mobile Phones" makes the service graspable by potential users, but hides a lot of the complexity actually in the service - social networking, mobile carrier interoperability, geocoding, lightweight user alert systems, on and on. I've watched these guys putting an astonishing amount of thought and effort into this system for the last couple of years, and it's heartening to see it paying off, especially as the mobile carriers still seem to deeply not get the social potential of their formerly point-to-point devices."
	Trendcentral - 4.14.2004 [ read ] Trendsetters who are tiring of Friendster are looking to Dodgeball.com as a new way of keeping in touch with friends. Unlike the internet based Friendster community, Dodgeball keeps users in touch by mobile phone. For example, if you are in a bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, you can alert Dodgeball via text message and they will alert all your enlisted friends of your whereabouts and will also let you know where their Dodgeball friends are, all within 10 blocks. With this ?friend of friend? feature, users have the opportunity to meet new people if they so desire, making Dodgeball a potentially great dating tool. Choosing Dodgeball friends promises to be a lot more elitist than Friendster, because by enlisting too many friends subscribers run the risk of having their phone message them 24/7. This will soon beg the question ?Is he/she Dodgeball worthy??. If you decide it is not friends you are after, but a pool table, then Dodgeball can also act as a city guide and will tell you, for example, the closest pool table to your location or where a specific bar is. Dodgeball is currently only available in New York City, but we?re guessing it may not be long before it comes to other big cities.
	Gothamist - 4.13.2004 [ read ] "Friendster was a lot of fun, but does it actually do anything? We're trying to build things that can change the course of an evening - bringing your friends together or introducing two people that are sitting 10 feet away. We think of it technology facilitating serendipity. As to whether anyone is going to get laid from it, all I can say is that our engineers are working day and night to make this happen."
	Boing Boing - 4.13.2004 [ read ] Boingboing.net uses dodgeball.social as an example of "Social software for mobile phones."
	Gawker - 4.7.2004 [ read ] Thank God for the newest and much-needed technological breakthrough. Welcome to Friendster-style group-text-messaging for lazy bar-hoppers: it's Dodgeball, baby.
	Time Out NY - December 4-11, 2003 (# 427, p. 174) [ scan ] "Circle Line: Let your cell phone keep tabs on your friends."