What is google upto?

After purchasing Blogger ,Picasa, Orkut now this week by google has acquired New York-based social networking service Dodgeball. The service lets users "check in" their location at a bar, club, restaurant, or other local gathering spot, then transmits that information as a text message to the mobile phones of selected other Dodgeball.com users in the area. The goal is to spark in-person connections among friends, acquaintances, and friends-of-friends.

So it's more than search .. what do you think?

 

Print | posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 7:04 PM

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Dunno what their exact plans are but they are churning out really cool stuff in all spaces.

i.e.
maps.google.co.uk
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picasa

I think the common theme running through a lot of the new stuff coming out of google is "location." Location based search, localised news and maps. And I guess you could say that the dodgeball.com acquisition is another example of localised networking, bringing people in the same city together using technology.

If you want to have a peak into the future of google have a look at this post on my blog:
http://www.irishdev.com/blogs/jbrennan/archive/2005/02/09/470.aspx
It's an 8 minute video skit that looks at google in the year 2014. Looks a bit far fetched/science fiction but I guess stranger things have happened :-)
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Hey John, Thanks for pointing out the satellite view..I had seen google maps but was not aware it has a satellite view(though for now it doesn't supports greater zoom)
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