Comments | harryh: notes on dodgeball.com

harryh

notes on dodgeball.com

Jan 15, 2009 13:15

Ya, so I found out from the same blog post as the rest of you. I would have thought that someone would have told me internally first, but I guess not. In fact, I was denying the whole thing at Lock's birthday party last night because it didn't make any sense. I guess I was wrong. It's been fun keeping the lights on these past couple years for ( Read more... )

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kellianne January 15 2009, 19:06:22 UTC

It's been no fun for me to dodgeball ever since the love power was booted off the project! Cheers to something new.

terrajen January 15 2009, 19:10:22 UTC

thanks for keeping it running for us!

leahculver January 15 2009, 19:29:10 UTC

Will there be any export of the place database? Hmm... that seems like the most useful part of Dodgeball that would be difficult to re-create from scratch.

harryh January 15 2009, 19:40:10 UTC

Not sure yet. Maybe. It's on my "hopefully" list.

ldandersen January 15 2009, 20:12:00 UTC

An export of the places database would be awesome.

janellegunther January 15 2009, 19:42:50 UTC

i'd like to have my reviews as well as check-in history, of course. maybe the top-10 checked in places (or a list of all!). some people may be interested in their crushes - you can reveal that information now, right?

harryh January 15 2009, 19:44:45 UTC

Ah, reviews! Hadn't been thinking about those! Thx for the reminder.

Most checked in venue in nyc btw: Barcade (barely beating out The Magician).

asabass January 22 2009, 04:57:15 UTC

Just curious: Do you know what the most checked in venue in Seattle is?

Reading this article made me a little angry, with the implication that it was just an NY thing at this point. My friends and I out here still use it ALL THE TIME.

harryh January 22 2009, 05:22:29 UTC

#1 in Seattle is Linda's followed very closely by Viceroy and then McLeod.

The article shouldn't get you angry. I know it's NY biased, but the gist of it is the same for any city. Dodgeball has always only been used by a fairly small # of people, so it's clearly not a workable as a business (at least in the way that Google has run it), but it's still an awesome little website/service and it's kinda sad that it's time for it to go.

Don't fret too much though. I know of a couple of new things being worked on that will be suitable replacements. Keep and eye out here, I'll definitely link to them when they are ready to go (hopefully close to the time that things are shuttered at dodgeball).

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anarkystic January 15 2009, 19:56:32 UTC

aye, i was out at a birthday party denying things as well until somebody brought up the article on the iphone, tsk tsk internal communications