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

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.

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.

Does anyone else feel that even if this is not a contractual breach that it's an ethical one?

If he wanted to keep his company then he shouldn't have sold it.

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...

I'm a bit surprised that Google doesn't have an employee agreement in place preventing this. Many can extend well past your employment.

This just represents bad acquisitions on G's part. They should examine how cisco, for example, does acquisitions.