Valleywag readers picked Google Base and Joga Bonito, a soccer fan site, as their top two recommendations for products that Google should cull. But there's a rumor circulating that NYC-based Dodgeball, which placed third in our poll, may in fact be the next to go. Dodgeball users text where they are, in the hope their Dodgeball friends will show up. This is a vision of life as one big roaming party, centered around Dodgeball founder, Dennis Crowley, and his downtown drinking buddy. Andrew Krucoff. But, even in its New York home, Dodgeball, which competes with Evan Williams' Twitter, always garnered way more press than popularity with users. The unit, acquired by Google last year, is unlikely to be shut down entirely; it may live on as a feature within Google's broader mobile services. If Dodgeball is consolidated, that will still leave Google with 84 seperate web apps and other products.

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