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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...does it work? Once a SmallWorld member convinces at least five other members to agree to join his network, he gains the privilege of inviting outsiders to join the website. If you get the nod, you can then access free information (vetted by fellow members) that varies from limo services and nightclubs to yacht brokers. But that's only a part of the website's appeal. Wachtmeister wants his ?lites to mingle, which means scouring the members list for people you know and asking them to join your network. This allows for the rather obscene I'll-show-you-mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...Marseilles to St. Tropez or which end-of-season Ibiza parties are still hot? If so, you require the services of an ?lite website called asmallworld.net?but the Stockholm-based service is by invitation only. If you know the right people, an e-mail arrives saying "Welcome to a SmallWorld," and you're ushered into a rarefied club with 21,000 members?including supermodel Naomi Campbell, mysterious New York City financier Jeffrey Epstein and a chunk of European aristocracy?who swap jet-set travel tips and chat online. The site was founded in March of this year by Erik Wachtmeister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

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