With social networking catching every dot.commer’s imagination, it makes all the more sense to add business sense to it. After all business is all about networking.

I started business networking back in 2002 with Ryze.com; the site stopped to evolve & I joined Linkedin.com. But with the evolution of web 2.0 and ajax support interfaces, we are now talking serious business networking.

My first example here is pairup.com : the site works on a simple concept of sharing your contacts & travel plans. And if it finds someone you know in the same destination – it’ll give you an alert! I wish it integrated with Plaxo!

KLM is taking Flying & Golf to business networking. They have 3 sites dedicated for business networking and the common platform – Golf. Cause all high flyers play it! It just reverses the approach & tells you whom you can find where. Check out there sites > www.klmclubafrica.com or www.fbgolfclub.com or www.clubchina.klm.com

If travel portals are smart enough like Yatra which introduced Raahi to garner traffic – imagin the potential it holds for travel portal to build loyalty & networking capability.

I am sure we in India are still busy deploying Adsense to make money… web 2.o can wait!