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Interview with Jonathan Simkin, SwoopThat

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We spoke with Jonathan about the advantages of SwoopThat over existing sites. Jonathan Simkin: What makes us unique from other sites, is we're here to help students save time, in addition to money, when they buy books. How did you come up with the web site? What's SwoopThat? Jonathan Simkin: We're all recent graduates.

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Interview with Aaron Crayford, Rippol

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Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. Instead of 20 comedies on one site, now you have 5000 on one site. We caught up with CEO Aaron Crayford to learn about the company.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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For people who haven't visited SciVee, what's the site about? The next major change that we see, is now that they're online, they're becoming more web based, and adding things like rich media. What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD? That's what SciVee is focused on.

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