Two of Australia’s biggest networking plays, Zaabiz and 3eep seem to be getting cosy lately.

If you don’t know them, Zaabiz is a business networking site (think LinkedIn) and 3eep is a white label social networking platform for (sports) teams.

Zaabiz announced today that they’ve opened a Sydney office in Buckingham St, the same street 3eep is in. I’m betting they’re in the same building as 3eep as well. (funny side note and completely unrelated to these businesses but Buckingham St was the street full of brothels I was referring to here - lol)

On top of that, I was speaking to 3eep co-founder Nick Gonios this morning at Sydney Open Coffee and he mentioned that this Friday 3eep is going to officially launch their B2C play “Sports Passion“,  which they plan to use, amongst other things, as a kind of sandbox for features that they want might want to incorporate into their B2B platform.

Jump onto the Zaabiz blog and you’ll see that this week’s “featured group” is none-other than a group called Sports Passion moderated by someone named Rob Antulov :).

Not sure if it’s coincidence or by design, but hopefully this is yet another example of what I was alluding to in an earlier post when talking about clusters creating competition and cooperation that leads to competitive advantage.

UPDATE: Zaabiz founder Michael Brecht has confirmed that they are, in fact, in the same building as 3eep, which is excellent news for the local scene.

Rentoid continues to get good press all over the place. They seem to be popping up on radio (ABC Melbourne, 6PR Perth) and TV (ACA, 9am ) all over the place.

Below is the story from A Current Affair the other night in case you missed it.

 
Well done to Steve and the team for getting so much mainstream media attention. This type of thing can only help the tech startup industry as a whole.