Linking In, social networking is happening!

I was listening to Simon Morton’s This Way Up; a radio show exploring stories and issues around things we use/consume, while working on Saturday and they discussed the rise of social networking.

At the same time I get an email from a friend in Idaho asking if I know an IT guy in NZ, do I have his email address?

I had heard the name, he’s into tablet pc’s/mobile computing, but have no contact details. Thought I’ll try Linked in, a web based business relationship network, & it finds one of my contacts, in Houston, knows this guy in NZ.

So from NZ, with some help from Houston, I connect Idaho to New Zealand.

Is social networking happening? I think so.

You can hear the clip at:

Technology with Paul Reynolds (duration: 9'58)
Social networking, and is Rupert Murdoch trying to buy the internet?
This Way Up - www.radionz.co.nz