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Joichi Ito
May 12, 2004 - 17:18 UTC »

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I woke up at 7:30AM when my phone beeped with an incoming SMS. It was a message telling me that Min had just checked in. I forgot to turn off dodgeball and the SMS was telling me where Min was in SF and that she had checked in. Now I know why they call it "dodgeball". ;-p For those who haven't tried it yet, dodgeball is a cool new service that is a location based SNS that lets you "check in" and it sends a SMS to your friends to tell them where you are. But it's not very useful when I'm in Madrid and Min's in SF. ;-)

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01. Martin - May 12, 2004 - 19:26

Rather cool i must say.
I always turn of my mobiles to silent at night, cause the sound from the vibrations will wake me up anyways if somebody calls, whilsts SMS will not :D

02. Julio - May 12, 2004 - 20:47

Joi, are you in Madrid today?

03. B.K. DeLong - May 13, 2004 - 05:45

Now if you had a FOAF file in which you changed the geo: values of foaf:based_near from SF to Spain ;) I believe dodgeball does pull info from FOAFs.

04. corpulo - May 14, 2004 - 00:12

Does Dodgeball infringe on Neeraj's patent?

05. dens - May 14, 2004 - 05:29

ah, the old "you're in SF and I'm in NYC and you're still getting my messages" bug. i'll fix that this week. :)

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