Dodgeball 3.0: why I’ll upgrade my phone

Just found out about Dodgeball 3.0 from Many2Many. This is the reason why I will upgrade my phone and add text messaging to it. I’ve never really been impressed with all the fancy features on my phone (hell, it hardly works half the time anyway), but this is truly awesome.

I just heard from Dennis Crow, who is the creator of Dodgeball, and he informs me that it should be available in San Francisco in “early January”. I can’t wait.

This reminds me of ActiveCampus at UCSD. Through some funding by HP, my professor Bill Griswold was able to get hundreds of PDAs in to the hands of incoming freshman. Then using 802.11b cards and triangulation techniques, he could provide everyone a map of where their friends were on campus.

In a class I took with professor Griswold, Ubiquitous Computing, my team created a messaging system that was designed to route messages based on predefined rules. The idea behind it was that when linked up to ActiveCampus, rules could be created like “if I