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Dodgeball founders release FourSquare

Posted by matthew bennett | Posted in Apple, Featured, app store, iPhone | Posted on 17-03-2009

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foursquareThere once was a company called Dodgeball.  They had a fun, early social app which would let you SMS your location, and see how physically close your contacts are to you.

Google bought Dodgeball, and it’s founders left with the thumbs-down salute after far-too-long of Google not updating the app.

Which brings us to today.  FourSquare was announced at SXSW, and it’s been updated to use Real Data instead of SMS, and much better socialized… data.  They’ve also announced an iPhone app, which is free.  I tried to download the iPhone app to get some nice screenshots, but it needs 2.2.1 firmware, but I’m on 2.2.  Dangit, guess I’ll need to upgrade and rejailbreak to get FourSquare going.  Cause I WANT it!  via Laughing Squid

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