German B2B social network Xing has added support for NFC, allowing members to add new contacts to their network by simply tapping together their mobile phones. Xing is using the Android Beam peer-to-peer functionality included in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for its NFC service.
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Xing adds contacts with NFC
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• nfcworld.com • 24 January 2012, 14:51 • Last updated 24 January 2012, 15:34
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There is an equivalent for Facebook : https://market.android.com/details?id=com.addfriend.nfc
The one for facebook is a different app, the equivalent would be the official facebook app supporting NFC