A couple of weeks back, we talked about how you could use Google SMS to find out all sorts of good NYC information using your mobile phone. Google recently bought Dodgeball, our favorite NYC mososo service, which lets you tell your friends where you are. (And yes, we said "mososo"-- that's what the cool-kids huge nerds call mobile social software.) Yesterday, Dodgeball head honcho Dens emailed to let us know about another cool feature:
we built some new stuff into dodgeball, one of the cooler things being that you can now tag venues on dodgeball. the idea is that people will use the tags to tell us about the places they frequent (e.g. Ace Bar = pool table + buck hunter + skeeball + darts + brooklyn lager + lunchboxes). tags themselves are nothing new, but the cool thing is that you can search our tags - based on proximity - from your phone.
for example, looking for a pool table near Ace Bar, send us "ace bar?pool table" and we'll spit back the 5 closest matches. or fireplace near The Magician (magician?fireplace) or a pac man table near Botanica (botanica?pacman) or fish tacos near Pianos (pianos?fish tacos) or whatever. it's pretty slick - and no one is doing
anything like it.
Check out the full tag-list-- some of them are pretty fun: 3 Michelen stars, Beer Pong, Locals, Pick-up Spot. That's a whole night of fun! Take your date to a nice restaurant, get dumped, go out for some beer-pong with some locals, pick-up a one-night stand! Boo-ya!
