Need a Job? How about a Date? Networking Services Want to Help
Networking services – Internet companies that offer to bridge the six degrees of separation between the friend of a friend we might marry, or the colleague of a colleague who might hire us – are the hot e-businesses of the moment.
Friendster, Orkut, Tribe, Ryze and LinkedIn – along with nearly two dozen more online communities that have cropped up recently – are furiously recruiting members who, in turn, recruit their friends, relatives, co-workers and just about anyone seeking an introduction to, or reference from, someone who might matter. Some networks count up to 100,000 people as members while others are claiming between 500,000 and one million.
