Is location-based social networking practical in spread-out Los Angeles?

Sure, you can beam your location through Foursquare, Loopt or Gowalla, but what’s unanswered is whether anyone is likely to face a freeway for a meet-up.

In early May, Mark Ghuneim was sitting in his hotel room at the Four Seasons near Beverly Hills. He discovered, via his iPhone’s Foursquare app, that a friend was at the Echo, a concert venue in Echo Park about eight miles away, about to watch a concert. “I’m realizing that even if I got in my car and drove there right now, I’d miss the set,” he said…….

via Is location-based social networking practical in spread-out Los Angeles? – latimes.com.