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WorldMate, the web and mobile personal travel assistant, has a ten year history of making travel easier for business travelers. Their newest features that go live today will give their members edge with location-based and social networking features through an integration with LinkedIn.

Most of us have been in this situation. You’re going to a meet a few business contacts, some of whom you haven’t met before. Their names and backgrounds are a little fuzzy. You know you’d have an edge if it was all clear in your brain. Maybe it’s in the email conversations, maybe not. Either way you don’t really have time to look through it all on your phone.

Or maybe this situation. You’re traveling to a city you aren’t too familiar with to close a few deals. You know there are a few more leads to be followed and contacts to meet, but you don’t know how to find them. Did the buyer you met a few months ago work in Chicago or Cleveland? You can’t figure it out, so you find your self eating dinner alone when, with a bit more information, it could have been a business dinner.

WorldMate’s integration with LinkedIn has just made both of these uncomfortable business travel situations a thing of the past. Now you can search for your LinkedIn contacts from your current location, or in a city of your choice, view their full profiles and send them messages, all from the WorldMate Blackberry app. (iPhone coming soon)

You can also search for new contacts in your LinkedIn extended network by city, industry and job type all without leaving the app. When you land in a new city, WorldMate prompts you to find contacts in that area, so you never forget to make the most of your trips and you never eat alone.

There are a lot of travel apps out there, but most are just apps. WorldMate is truly a personal travel assistant, remembering your preferences and reminding you what you still might need to book and even what the weather will be at your destination so you know what to pack. With this new functionality, WorldMate brings even more intelligence and value to its members. It’s no wonder they are the service chosen by nearly 5 million travelers worldwide.

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