Abstract :
A new cellphone-based social networking tool aims to make urbanites evenings a lot less hit-or-miss. Thanks to Dodgeball.com, location-based social networking may be the next cellphone craze. This paper discusses a mobile social networking tool, called Dodgeball, that allows young urbanities to link up and meet face to face when they´re out on the town. Joining Dodgeball means filling out a profile, posting photographs of yourself on the Dodgeball Web site and listing your friends and their cellphone numbers. Whether Dodgeball succeeds as a business may depend on its success as a social platform.
Keywords :
Internet; Web sites; cellular radio; internetworking; Dodgeball.com; cellphone-based social networking tool; location-based social networking; mobile social networking tool; Bars; Cellular phones; Cities and towns; Databases; Fellows; Filling; Libraries; Social network services; Telecommunication computing; World Wide Web;
