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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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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

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He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform.

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Interview with Rob Farrow, Chi.mp

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Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. In late 2007, we had a group of guys were creating concepts about social identity. In late 2007, Chi.mp Meebo is another powerful site.

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Interview with Albert Ko, DealPerk.com

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Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. What is the site all about? How did DealPerk.com come about?

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Interview with Kim Folsom, ShowUHow

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For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. The whole platform is build on the software-as-a-service model. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Yan Hui, AirHop

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To get an idea of what one startup in the industry is doing, we spoke to San Diego-based AirHop (www.airhopcomm-web.com), a developer of software being used for small-, pico-, and femto-cell networks. When I started in 2007, one thing we did even in the early days was engage with operators. Yan Hui: That's a good question.

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

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It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. William is in San Diego, and is a longtime gaming vet, having been at Activision in the days of The Manhole and Myst. Even then, users are very demanding.

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