The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). We have all the people who came out of eHarmony; who came from MySpace and Overture and PriceGrabber and Lastminute.com and Shopzilla and CitySearch and all these places. RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...

And what I noticed about dating was that you had big generic social networks. You had match.com, you had americansingles.com, and eHarmony, and those are great. And I could see social networking was probably going to do the same.  And Goodreads is basically a social network for book lovers. Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew

One of the places where eHarmony really took off was on radio. Are you leveraging social media at all? Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. Of course, when I started thinking about Visible Networking , I immediately went to Cliff to check in to see how he's doing and to get his feedback, thoughts and ideas on the concept. Cliff, remind me about your background? My first career was spent building radio and television stations, then running the programming side of those businesses.