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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

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Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007. I am looking for Java developers and database experts. Clark Benson is the Founder and CEO of Ranker.com. It does this by providing simple tools which facilitate crowed sourced lists.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. We're definitely looking for business development and marketing people, and we really could use a strong Java developer who is interested in linked data and the semantic web, and who is a good coder overall. Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit.

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

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We support 700 different handsets across our platform, whereas some folks are just building a Java application which is supported by an expensive, N95, $700 smart phone--which no one has. Derrick Oien: We launched Rabble in June of 2005, and we launched the first version of ANTHEM in September of 2007. So it's been a year.