Killing off Dodgeball would put a real bind in J. Mc.C Calacanis's bar crawling, post-AOL, on Manhattan's LES...by the way, Jason is Jon Miller joining you at The Magician tomorrow, for a postprandial Fuente Fuente Opus X?

valley wag--you are a bunch of geeks who don't know your ass from your elbow. do some research on dodgeball before you go summarizing the technology in some sweeping, pithy, and ignorant way. not surprising that you can't appreciate dodgeball, seeing as you probably spend saturday nights searching for how did you put it? "tech gossip".

Google Base is one of the better Google services, I think, especially after they started merging it with Froogle and Google Checkout. As far as userbase goes it's got all the other choices beat hands-down.

Joga, on the other hand, is just an advertisement for Nike. Axe it!

Forget the programs: I think they should "trim" Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin. Schmidt has proven himself to be nothing more than a trouble-making waste of space who contributes nothing but takes credit for everything. And they only need one founder, so they might as well keep the one who was the brain behind the mechanics of Google and get rid of the narcissistic piggyback-ing one.

I've never heard of dodgeball.com before.

I don't get it.

Does this mean I'm not hip anymore?

No, it just means you're a suburban dad.