Dodgeball was a location-based social networking software provider for mobile devices.

[1] Dodgeball was founded in 2000 by New York University students Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert.

[3] After leaving Google, Crowley created a similar service known as Foursquare with the help of Naveen Selvadurai.

[4] Dodgeball was available for the cities of Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas–Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Minneapolis–St.

In January 2009, Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering at Google, announced that the company would "discontinue Dodgeball.com in the next couple of months, after which this service will no longer be available.