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Friends don't generally charge each other money to stay at their place though, right?

Or maybe that's a difference between close friends and acquaintances--and many people have a lot of acquaintances for Facebook friends, so I can see it working out.



Maybe not a 1st degree friend but a friend of a friend or something like this.

A feature that finds out the "shortest chain" friend that rents out an apartment in your destination city would be interesting. But you need a social graph for that.


Sounds like a facebook app worth making. Rent out rooms to people that are at most 3 hops removed from you on FB?


Check out SecondPorch (secondporch.com) for a pretty nice execution of that concept, built around FB Connect.


If I was Airbnb I would acquire the above.




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