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Sean Parker Launches Airtime With Olivia Munn and Ed Helms
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Sean Parker's New Airtime Brings Hollywood to the Start-Up Scene

Napster founders Sean Parker (also Facebook's first president) and Shawn Fanning introduced their newest online venture today, Airtime, a video chat service powered through Facebook.
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Napster founders Sean Parker (also Facebook's first president) and Shawn Fanning introduced their newest online venture today, Airtime, a video chat service powered through Facebook.

While Airtime users must have a Facebook account to sign in, they aren't limited to chatting with their Facebook friends. Sign in and look for people to connect with based on interests, shared social connections, and location. Sound familiar? The service is similar in concept to other video chat services like Google Hangouts and Chatroulette. Airtime's founders insist this product is different thanks to the Facebook integration and the ability to meet new people with similar interests in the style of a '90s chat room.

Airtime kicked off its launch with the support of about a dozen close Hollywood friends including Ed Helms, Martha Stewart, Jim Carrey, Joel McHale, Olivia Munn, and others who believe the product is the next big thing in social networking.

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Spotify to Launch in US By End of 2010
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Sean Parker: "End of Year" US Launch For Spotify?

Spotify may be one of the most awesome music apps out there and has a huge potential to blow up here in the US, but we're still waiting on its arrival from the UK.
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Spotify may be one of the most awesome music apps out there and has a huge potential to blow up here in the US, but we're still waiting on its arrival from the UK. Napster cofounder and Spotify investor Sean Parker took the stage during The Daily Beast's Innovators Summit in New Orleans earlier today and predicted that Spotify would hit US shores by the end of the year.

Of course, we've heard this "end of the year" prediction before, but that's no reason not to get excited for a potential holiday arrival. Spotify will give users access to millions of songs for free and allow you to send and share tracks and playlists among your friends. Imagine what will become of your holiday playlists this year! Oh, the possibilities.

Update: Video of Sean Parker talking about Spotify's future after the break.

Geeking Out with Samantha Ronson at TechCrunch50/ MySpace Party
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Geeking Out with Samantha Ronson at TechCrunch50/ MySpace Party

The big TechCrunch50 Conference kicked off yesterday at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse, with the best new tech startups launching their companies in front of the public — yes Ashton and Demi were there!
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The big TechCrunch50 Conference kicked off yesterday at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse, with the best new tech startups launching their companies in front of the public — yes Ashton and Demi were there! And to celebrate the day one festivities was the big MySpace party last night at Mezzanine. I not only got to chat with Sean Parker, the cofounder of Napster, and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington — who said this year's turnout was much better than last year's — but I was able to catch up with the famous Samantha Ronson, who was DJing at the event, and ask her some geeky questions!

  • BlackBerry or iPhone Owner? "I actually have both."
  • Are you a Mac or PC Fan? "Mac all the way. PCs are just hard to figure out and not user friendly whatsoever."
  • What software do use on your laptop for spinning tunes? "Sonar by Cakewalk."

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