I have talked about eSociety a bit before, but now things have taken a new turn. Google has aquired Dodgeball, a networking service based on SMS messaging.

I think I had this conversation with my sister back a while ago when I basically said something like, "All these networks like Friendster, The Facebook, Dodgeball, etc are all great, but it sucks that none of them can become *the* standard. It's too much of a pain when you have a few friends in each network and nobody is commiting to making one of the networks the best. What really needs to happen is for a big company like Yahoo, etc to pick up one of these services and make it mainstream."

Well, now that's happened. With Google handling Dodgeball now I'm sure you'll see a huge influx of people signing up and using the service as well as a whole bunch of new features. This could be a good sign.