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Dodgeball Co-Founder Joins Foursquare

Foursquare is getting a new chief product officer in Alex Rainert, who -- along with Foursquare founder and CEO Dennis Crowley -- co-founded Dodgeball back in 2000. Google bought Dodgeball -- which let users share their location with friends via text message -- in mid-2005, before shutting it down in early 2009.

"We've got a bunch (a ton?) of things we want to do, some of which you'll see pretty soon," Rainert wrote on blog regarding his appointment. Top VC firms are reportedly scrapping for a piece of Foursquare, which they're now valuating at $100 million. Meanwhile, Kevin Rose, co-founder of content ranking site Digg and a Foursquare investor, recently said: "Foursquare felt very much like Twitter did a few years ago."

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1 comment about "Dodgeball Co-Founder Joins Foursquare ".
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  1. William Golden from tendo communications, April 16, 2010 at 5:48 p.m.

    What's up with companies named after grade school games involving red rubber balls?

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