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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. What is Deal Current?

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Google For Icons | IconFinder Providing The Best for Developers and Designers

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We dive into the very beginnings of IconFinder, where Martin’s personal need led him to start the site, to how he was able to fit working on IconFinder into his school projects and all the way to where the site is now and where they are heading. From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements.

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

Tech Zulu Event

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.”

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When to Pay a Premium for Your Company Domain Name

Startup Professionals Musings

Kevin Ham was the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of in 2007, reports Business 2.0 Type in "weddingshoes.com" - a site that Ham happens to own - and you'll land on what looks like a shoe-shopping portal, filled with links from dozens of retailers. Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap.

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

Tech Zulu Event

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.”

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was.