<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/01569955-9641-4e2a-bb7f-11b41e41cca6/8AA909FD-0C2C-467E-B58C-415B274CA340/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5173908/foursquare-founder-tells-two-tales-about-filched-dodgeball-code" href="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5173908/foursquare-founder-tells-two-tales-about-filched-dodgeball-code" style="font-size: 11px;">valleywag.gawker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5173908/foursquare-founder-tells-two-tales-about-filched-dodgeball-code"><H1><A href="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5173908/foursquare-founder-tells-two-tales-about-filched-dodgeball-code">Foursquare Founder Tells Two Tales About Filched Dodgeball Code</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5173908/foursquare-founder-tells-two-tales-about-filched-dodgeball-code"><P>Some inside the Googleplex believe that Crowley got the code for his new friend-finding startup Foursquare from Dodgeball, the startup he sold to Google for an estimated $40 million in 2005. And after Valleywag <A href="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5170795/is-the-new-foursquare-too-much-like-the-old-dodgeball-for-google">reported their suspicions</A>, a source tells us Crowley has been going around telling people at South By Southwest that he did reuse the code, and that he doesn't expect Google will do anything about it.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5173908/foursquare-founder-tells-two-tales-about-filched-dodgeball-code"><P>But that's not what he told <A href="http://gawker.com/tag/dan-fost/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged DAN FOST" class="autolink">Dan Fost</A> of the <EM><A href="http://gawker.com/tag/los-angeles-times/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged LOS ANGELES TIMES" class="autolink">Los Angeles Times</A></EM> when asked about the charge. Fost credulously printed Crowley's reply:<BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5173908/foursquare-founder-tells-two-tales-about-filched-dodgeball-code"><P>If only Fost had thought to factcheck that with, say, any of the South By Southwest attendees to whom Crowley confessed. Or with engineers who have inspected Foursquare's code and found elements directly lifted from Dodgeball. That would be work, though — an element curiously missing from much of today's tech journalism.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8AA909FD-0C2C-467E-B58C-415B274CA340/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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