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Dodgeball Shuttered By Google, Its Co-Creator Promises To Clone It

31 pointsby bdotdubover 16 years ago

6 comments

mdasenover 16 years ago
Dodgeball looked really cool and it's a pity that Google just let it languish - especially since social networking seems to be gravitating toward real-time, location based services.
asnyderover 16 years ago
Though it's a real shame to lose the dodgeball name. I've found that software projects take on a life of their own, and even if you fork or recreate it at some point with a different name you risk losing that original feel, though you also have the opportunity to create a new and unique feel for that software project too.
pistoriuspover 16 years ago
Does anyone else feel that even if this is not a contractual breach that it's an ethical one?<p>If he wanted to keep his company then he shouldn't have sold it.
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flashgordonover 16 years ago
An old question but has Google manage to do well with any of its acquisitions? Youtube and Blogger are still running on their old momentum...
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bpraterover 16 years ago
I'm a bit surprised that Google doesn't have an employee agreement in place preventing this. Many can extend well past your employment.
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sownover 16 years ago
This just represents bad acquisitions on G's part. They should examine how cisco, for example, does acquisitions.