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  • Martin Stiksel

    They’ve been fairly quiet since the high-profile acquisition by CBS, but this doesn’t mean that Last.fm’s team hasn’t been busy. Oliver Lindberg talks to Martin Stiksel, the co-founder and chief controlling officer of Last.fm
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  • Leo Laporte

    They call him the hardest working man in podcasting. Now he’s extended his TWiT empire to include a live, hi-res video stream. Oliver Lindberg talks to the one and only Leo Laporte about being the glue that holds together an online community
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  • Kevin Rose

    Digg is the world’s most popular user-generated news site. A recent revolt showed that it really is run by its community. Founder Kevin Rose tells Oliver Lindberg how he experienced the most turbulent day in Digg’s history, and what his users want him to do next
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  • Jimmy Wales

    Wikipedia revolutionised the way we look for information. Now its founder has got his eyes on the search market. Oliver Lindberg talks to one of the web’s most colourful players, Jimmy Wales, about his forthcoming people-powered open source search engine
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  • Jim Buckmaster

    Online classified advertising site Craigslist is run more as a public service than for profit – a philosophy that’s led to war with eBay. Oliver Lindberg talks to chief executive Jim Buckmaster about one of the internet’s most unlikely success stories
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  • Janus Friis

    eBay may not be too happy about the performance of Skype, but its co-founders have moved on to promising new ventures. Janus Friis tells Oliver Lindberg why online TV service Joost is all set to revolutionise the way we watch television
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  • Jake Nickell

    Threadless uses the power of crowdsourcing to sell more than 100,000 T-shirts a month. Company founder Jake Nickell talks to Oliver Lindberg about how he turned a simple hobby into a multimillion dollar business empire
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  • Jack Dorsey

    Frequent downtimes recently sparked an intense online debate about the flaws of popular micro-blogging service Twitter. Oliver Lindberg catches up with its CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey, to discuss the company’s plans to make it more stable
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  • Irene Au

    Whatever you may think of it, Google’s approach to design is certainly different. Irene Au, the company’s director of user experience, talks to Oliver Lindberg about data-driven design decisions, achieving consistency and user research
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  • Donald Katz

    It’s the tenth anniversary of Audible.com and one of the first digital audio players ever, the Audible MobilePlayer. Against all odds, the spoken-word download site is still here. Founder Donald Katz talks to Oliver Lindberg about the company’s success
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  • Brian Kalma

    Online retailer Zappos is known for its fanatical dedication to customer service. Brian Kalma, director of user experience, tells Oliver Lindberg about branding, Happy Cog’s redesign of the site and why a third of the employees are on Twitter
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  • Aarron Walter on designing for emotion

    To mark today's launch of Designing for Emotion, Mandy Brown, co-founder and editor of A Book Apart, talks to Aarron Walter, user experience design lead for MailChimp, about finding the right personality for your product
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  • Jeff Veen on Typekit and web fonts

    He left Google to found one of the guiding forces of the web font revolution. Typekit’s CEO Jeff Veen chats to Tom May about how beautiful typography is opening up a new world of options to designers and changing the face of the web
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