A lot of folks have been talking about the mobile version of the Google personalized homepage recently, and of course I’ve given it a try. But just like the Google Local for Mobile release before it, it’s missing the one set of data that would really drive me to put some use behind it: Dodgeball.

I think Dodgeball is a pretty cool service, and I do make use of it. One of the problems with it however is that it doesn’t really have a way to access the data from a mobile phone except by keeping track of all the text messages. I was expecting Google Local for Mobile to have a “checkins by friends” dataset that could be layered in, and I was expecting the personalised homepage to have a module I could add to list recent checkins by friends. But neither of these mobile services have any ties at all to the Dodgeball service. Unfortunate.