Does location-based networking need some direction?

There's really not a clear answer. And the entrance of two huge tech players into the space - Google's Latitude and Yahoo's Fire Eagle - has given location-based networking some validation.

weekly wrapup - 11-17 août 2008

• Fast growing companies are more likely to use social networking tools :

  "The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research has recently released research on the use of social media by the Inc 500, which are the 500 fastest growing privately owned companies in the US as ranked by Inc. magazine. This is one of the first longitudinal studies, showing changes in adoption of social media tools from one year ago."