BiggerPockets, real estate social network, has reached the big Five-O! 50 thousand members and growing rapidly throughout the U.S. and dozens of other countries.

“This is an exciting time for BiggerPockets,” says CEO and founder Joshua Dorkin. “There is a lot of competition for people’s attention and time on the web, so when 50,000 members give us a vote of confidence, it shows that we are accomplishing our goal of serving the needs of our audience and that we’ve truly become one of the premier real estate platforms on the web.”

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Gartner has revealed its key predictions on the use of social software and collaboration in the enterprise. These predictions focus on offerings ranging from team collaboration to dynamic social networking applications that offer rich profiles and activity streams.

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Meezoog, a dating network for professional individuals around the world, has integrated with popular social network, Facebook, through Facebook Connect. As a result, Meezoog’s users are now connected to more than 500,000 people on Facebook through Meezoog’s trust-based platform.

Meezoog uses Facebook Connect in a unique way, allowing its members to search tens of thousands of singles on Facebook who are all visibly connected to one another through Meezoog’s human paths. Connections of up to five degrees of separation can be viewed via Meezoog, mixing Facebook and Meezoog users. Meezoog adheres to Facebook privacy policy and only incorporates publically available information on users.

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XIHA Life, the world’s first truly multilingual and multicultural social network, received $1 million in seed funding. Veraventure led the round, joined by international angel investors and the company founders.

XIHA Life also announced that Jyri Engeström, former Google Product Manager and co-founder of Jaiku, is coming on as a new member of the board, joining Jan Achrenius and chairman Ville Miettinen.

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As social networking grows increasingly pervasive, more employers are utilising these sites to screen potential employees. More than half (53%) of employers reported in a recent CareerBuilder survey that they use social networking sites to research job candidates. Another 12% plan to start using social networking sites for screening. More than 450 employers participated in the survey, which was completed in December 2009.

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