"facebook for neighbours"

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<div><font face="Arial, Verdana">WAT? £600k?</font></div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><br></font></div>http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1193637/launchpad-facebook-neighbours-site-streetlifecom-gets-funding-injection/</font><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><br></font></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: georgia; color: rgb(180, 11, 26); font-weight: normal;"><font size="3">LAUNCHPAD: 'Facebook for neighbours' site Streetlife.com gets funding injection</font></h1></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How well do you know your neighbours? The answer for millions of us is, ‘not very well’. But before you resign yourself to a life of hermitism, destined to go unacknowledged by those who live around you, fear not – help is at hand. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Start-up streetlife.com is trying to bring us together with its community social media platform and it has secured £600,000 investment to help it do so. The cash injection comes from existing investors Archant Digital Ventures as well as new financial investors Shohet & Cie S.A. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Calling itself ‘the local social media platform,’ Streetlife aims to encourage people to share and connect with their neighbours. The investment, which includes a mandate to raise $3m before the end of the year, will be used to launch the service in new areas of the UK. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> ‘Social networking has a key role to play in bringing local people together to talk about the issues they care about and make a positive difference where they live,’ says Matt Boyes, founder and chief executive of streetlife.com. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">‘We’ve shown that online interaction can facilitate real-world meetings, encourage people to become more involved locally, and enhance their sense of belonging.  It’s a very exciting time for streetlife.com; this funding will enable us to bring the benefits of local social networking to new communities across the nation.’</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.59375px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We’ll be sharing cups of tea and biscuits with them next door in no time.  </span></div>

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And that differs from <A href="http://neighbourblog.com/">http://neighbourblog.com/</A> ;(which is currently plastered all over the rear end of buses in London) how?