Making Friends with Places
This morning, another new startup launched a mobile social networking application where location is the primary feature and friends comes second. Banjo, which shows you all the people nearby upon first launch, is one of many similar services now arriving to fill a void in the social networking space. These services are identifying the disposable, the elastic and the ephemeral social networking that occurs - or could occur, given the right technology - when tied to a particular location at a particular point in time.
But does Banjo have the winning formula? What about the others? And will anyone really use these services?






























