The Columbus Dispatch has the scoop on Columbus-based Glacir.com, a networking Web site that shows users their own six degrees of separation from people and events around the world. The site was founded by Miami University of Ohio graduates Brad Balzer and Zak Dziczkowski.

From the Dispatch:

A user starts by registering on the Web site, searching for first-degree connections with friends who also are registered there. He also sends messages to other friends, requesting that they sign up.

Glacir then goes to work, showing how the user and his first-degree friends are connected to other people — from two to six degrees away.

While the site can be amusing, Balzer and Dziczkowski see its professional uses as the site’s real money-earner.

“This can be a powerful networking tool for professionals,” Balzer said. “We think it will have big application for marketing or networking.”

More: A blog post on Glacir.com defines what Glacir is – and what it’s not.

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