Google to Buy Meetroduction
Saturday, 20. August 2005 - 11:55 am
INTERNET NEWS — Aug 8 — Googleis expected to announce the acquisition of Meetroduction later this
week, a source close to the transaction told internetnews.com.
Chicago-based Meetroduction launched the first version of Meetro,
"location-aware social networking software," on Aug. 4. The idea of
Meetro is to find people to hang out with in the physical world. Meetro
combines instant messaging with automatic local buddy finding. Users
can log in and browse or search profiles of other members in order to
find someone compatible who's nearby and also logged in. The area to be
searched can be narrowed to a quarter mile. FULL ARTICLE @ INTERNET NEWS