A mobile hook-up service. Hmm, I don’t know. Being that I am just not anywhere near as smooth as I was a young(er) man, could this new service being taken over by Google really make that big of a difference? I will have to wait and see I think. Worst case, you could use it to meet some new friends.

Google, keeping up its tradition of surprising everyone with out-of-the-left-field acqusitions have acquired New York-based Dodgeball, which is a mobile hook-up service. The two-person start-up is part of un-VC efforts that got rewarded. “As a two-person team, Alex and I have taken dodgeball about a far as we can alone. Since we finished grad school, we’ve been trying to figure out how to grow dodgeball and make it a better service along the way. We talked to a lot of different angel investors and venture capitalists, but no one really ‘got’ what we were doing - that is until we met Google.” [Get this links]