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Today’s world anymore is basically a mobile, social experience, at least to most people. However, for those of us who are digitally dependent riding a crowded bus can be more isolating than sitting in a room alone with a computer. However, this is about to change with new advances in mobile phone technology.
Now the mobile phone screen threatens to fill the loneliness that devotees of peer to peer networking sites experience when they are away from their PC.
Online peer to peer networking heavyweights such as MySpace and Facebook have added mobile features, and start-ups are scrambling to allow people to share every moment with their network of online friends through voice, text, pictures, and video – all done via mobile phone.
Peer to peer networking has been a popular thing with teens and young adults, and is now being utilized by business as well. With MySpace and Facebook hitting at a time when mobile phone usage is soaring, networking with peers and businesses alike is always at your fingertips.
Although only 3.5 percent of US mobile subscribers report logging onto a mobile social network site or blog even once a month from a mobile device, according to M:Metrics Inc., a mobile media research firm, investors and entrepreneurs see the cellphone world, with more than 200 million subscribers in the United States alone, as a market with massive potential.

Lime Wire LLC, maker of the popular LimeWire peer to peer network software, announced that it will open a digital music store.
Initially the store will be a stand-alone website, also accessible from links in the file-sharing software. Subsequent releases will enable users to browse and purchase music directly from within the LimeWire program. The first partners in the new digital channel are IRIS Distribution and Nettwerk Productions. These companies have signed deals with Lime Wire to provide music from their extensive catalogs. Lime Wire is banking on the popularity of peer to peer networks in marketing their new concept.
Songs in the LimeWire Store will be sold in the universally compatible MP3 format. Customers will be able to buy songs and albums “a la carte” or as part of monthly subscription plans.

If you’re like many professionals, students, and entrepreneurs who attend networking events, you know one thing.  Peer networking  is a business lifestyle. In order to have a successful event, it is important to be ready for big success! How can professionals gear up for their next networking event? How can they make the most of the upcoming event and reach their peer to peer networking endeavors? How can they develop the right habits for on going networking success? Listed below are ways that professionals can maximize their networking abilities.
Confirm Your Attendance
At least 24 hours before the networking event, you should call or email to make sure that you are on the registration list. It is to your advantage that the company or organization hosting the event has all of your correct and current information. This keeps you on the list for upcoming networking events and allows them to pass along your contact information to interested business counterparts. Also, make sure that if there is a fee for the event, the organization or company has properly received your information and has charged you correctly.
Dress for Success
A great idea for getting ready for a networking event is to select your business attire the night before. This gives you ample time to select the right outfit that corresponds to the event that you are attending. It will also save you time the next morning to relax or review your objectives for attending the networking event. Of course, your business attire should look professional and appropriate. It should also be clean and properly pressed.
Cash On Hand
It is always a good idea to have cash available if there is an upfront fee for parking or an open bar at the networking event. Depending on the nature of the event, you may also need extra cash for tips and other services. Also, having cash allows you to be flexible in relation to having a credit card or using a check. Also this reduces the effects of being overcharged or over billed and also reduces identity theft.
Verify Networking Info
And last but not least, verify the date, time and venue of the networking event. Plan your trip if you are driving, or taking public transportation.  This will help you to anticipate traffic, construction, detours, etc. A great idea is to use the computer to find the proper directions to the event location and also call the organization or company to verify the directions just in case there is any confusion.

Qlique.com is the newest way to procrastinate on the Web. A new social networking Web site is joining the ranks of Facebook and MySpace to bring students the next generation of peer to peer networking.
One thing this new peer to peer networking site has done is built the site around college students, including setting up rivals with other colleges, fraternities and sororities and really built it to their liking.
The cool new features of this peer to peer networking site could catch on if more people use it. It’s a lot  more interactive than the standard social networking sites, and has games that you can set up with friends like poker and college trivia.
This web site stands apart from the first-generation features of Facebook and MySpace because of its live elements. It’s not just about viewing a profile or sending a message, but about peer to peer networking with various types of entertainment features. Everything is live and it’s about what’s happening around you just like your real-world social life.

More often than not partners in a small start-up company have planned on only networking locally, but small businesses today have to plan for an effective global networking strategy as well. Are your products or services marketable overseas and at what juncture do you envision expanding globally? Is your service executable via an effective global network and what are the implications for your business if you deal on an international level?
Businesses a decade ago, or even five years ago probably didn’t think in terms of effective global networking. Prior to today’s technological and telecommunications capabilities, effective global networking was the concern of the internationals or the rare local business that had commerce outside of the country
To those who make the cyber world their own, networking globally is almost standard practice. The web designer might live in England, but be designing a site for a Florida business while the content for the site is being written by someone in Canada. Because of the possibilities of effective global networking, it is possible for these three parties never to meet in person and yet execute a complete and successful project.

One of the keys to successful peer to peer networks and online networks in particular is that they require an object to connect them. For example people are linked in Flickr by photos, in del.icio.us by bookmarks and in the real world by the school they went to, their job or their hobbies. This is why, in “pure” social networking sites like Orkut and Friendster, Myspace and Facebook communities form.

Business are now learning to tap into the power of these communities to market their products, and drive traffic to their websites.  This is only one example of the power of peer to peer networks.
A professional peer to peer network committed to the growth of it’s individual members and the expansion of their shared vision will re-invent itself many times as it expands and modifies it’s configuration in service to that vision. When we speak of peer to peer networking on this website we are describing the social networking and business networking so essential to succeeding in today’s business world.  Having a vital and productive peer to peer network in business is, like a computer network, dependent on the power and energy that the participants in that network bring to the table.  A peer to peer network of lethargic and complacent people will never empower a career or promote a business.