"Googolopoly" the Board Game -- Kudos to Box.net for their great sense of humor!

Kudos to Box.net blog who created a clever Googolopoly board game modeled after the Monopoly board game most have us have played at one time or another.

• Per Box.net: "...One day we got tired of being serious about the situation and came up with Googolopoly, a game where you can take part of ruling the internet even if you don’t work in Mountain View. The goal of the game is to use Google shares to buy as many properties as you can without landing in the deadpool and losing your stock. As with any great board game, there’s a very real metaphor to what’s going on…. What happens when the Google monster gobbles up all that is left in the web world, is present on your cell phone, desktop, and even controls your health information? For all their product excellence, the threat of amassing this much data is too serious to ignore."

I would be remiss if I didn't link to my own, differently spelled, www.googleopoly.net website which includes some of the most in-depth and serious analysis of Google's growing market power.

For those who wonder -- why should I care:

• Read the 1.5 page summary of my Senate testimony on the stakes of lax antitrust enforcement in the Google Doubleclick merger review;
• Scan the six charts that tell the anti-competitive story in pictures; and/or
• Read the in-depth competitive analysis of why Google has market power in search and why Microsoft and Yahoo can't catch Google.

Unfortunately, this isn't just a game... the threat Google poses on multiple dimensions is ominous...