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Dodgeball founder Dennis Crowley posted on his blog that he and co-founder Alex Rainert have dumped their Google-owned mobile networking company. Google had acquired Dodgeball in 2005. This was a unique way of quitting ..their decision to resign from Google was on Flickr with a thumbs-down.

"It's no real secret that Google wasn't supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us - especially as we couldn't convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources, leaving us to watch as other startups got to innovate in the mobile + social space. And while it was a tough decision (and really disappointing) to walk away from dodgeball, I'm actually looking forward to getting to work on other projects again."

He is probably referring to Twitter ( a product by Ex-Googler) a Dodgeball rival that's been getting quite lot of hype over the past few months.

Dodgeball, the text-message based social networking service, seems to have been left for dead. But it seems that biographies of Crowley and Rainert still appear on the "about us" page on Dodgeball.com.

Whats Nexxt with Dennis & Alex ? 

Crowley will move on to "big gaming" company area/code, and Rainert has taken a job as a creative strategist at Icon Nicholson.

All that apart… Alex & Dennis are going to celebrate their escape.( as seen on Flickr page)