Future of Social Networking, part 2

Arrington from TechCrunch has an interesting post today on the future of social networking. While we don’t agree that being able to walk into a meeting with your iPhone and see dossiers on everyone present is insanely compelling, it is, at least, compelling enough to extend the relevance of social networking. And it is possible that this “class” of location-aware mobile (web 3.0) services will give ad revenue-based business models more legs.

The privacy issue offers another revenue model we’ve been waiting to emerge – privacy-sales based revenue. In other words, if I walk into a meeting, I may have to pay people for the right to see data beyond their name and picture. (Or their network provider could, in exchange for free access…).