Brewed Fresh Daily

Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert have launched Dodgeball 3.0, a social tool for New Yorkers accessible through the phone, accompanied by New York magazine coverage. Dodgeball has three core features: Guide, Circles, and Scout. The Guide is a simple ratings thing (bars, restaurants), but the interesting things are Circles and Scout, because they deal with the intersection of social life and location. Circles is �I am here. Where are you?� It gives you the mailing list pattern for location: group re-direct of of your location to people in your Circle. Scout is �What is going on near me?� It gives you the ability to shout a message to any subscriber in a 10 block radius, and to listen to other messages broadcast in that same area...