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Dennis Crowley, founder of the mobile social networking service Dodgeball, alongwith Alex Rainert employee#2 of the company have resigned from Google, which acquired the service in May 2005. Dodgeball suffered from lack of innovation or even development ever since the Google acquisition and lost its shine to the likes of Twitter, Jaiku and Loopt in the mobile social networking space.

Dodgeball founders are yet another set of entrepreneurs to leave Google. Previously Blogger team members and dMac founders left Google to do something exciting on their own. This to me has to do with the resource allocation algorithm in place at Google as well.

Google allows teams and engineers to work on as many projects as they want, but only commit serious resources to the one that gain market traction on their own. It is kind of a sort of competition among teams at Google, just like startups compete with each other. Just like the best ones in the startup world get acquired, the best one in Googleplex gets the limited resources, although not so limited by any means but when you consider the magnitude of different experiments the dozens of teams are conducting at Google, the resources really get squeezed. This survival of the fittest sometimes kills the services which could have flourished in their own right given a little attention and nourishment, but then thats the way it works in the Googleverse.

Just in case you are thinking of announcing your resignation, Flickr is the new hip way to do it.

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