NEWS
Dodgeball: Friendster for Your Cell Phone
By SAMANTHA MAZIARZ | Sep. 3, 2004Social software has left the bounds of the World Wide Web and is headed for your cell phone.A company called Dodgeball has created a social networking program for mobile phones designed to help friends, and friends of friends, get together."When all of the dot-coms were failing, all of my friends were getting laid off and moving and we weren't hanging out as much as we used to," said Dennis Crowley, 28, a New York University graduate, one of Dodgeball's founders.They were using things like Citysearch, a basic city guide to coordinate their social gatherings, but weren't having much success."Citysearch was just a really lousy product, it still is a lousy product," he said.
