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The high point of today was a trip to Yahoo's Brickhouse research facility in the tech quarter of San Francisco. Chad Dickerson - the guy who organizes the famous hack days -gave us the run down. The facility was set up to allow an innovative…

West Shell, ceo of Healthline, is now talking. He has taken the company during the last three years from 5 people to 80 people. Now it is the leading provider of health information in US he says and soon to be the world. Healthline Networks…

It is quite revealing that all three of the businesses we have heard from this morning have built their businesses through partnerships and licensing. These are things which traditional media companies find really, really hard. For example Healthline is building out a vertical ad network…

Kathy Yates, ceo of AllBusiness.com is now talking. She shows us her LinkedIn page and her Facebook page and describes herself "west coast digerati". She says she first looked at Allbusiness in 2004. Her assessment? Good core audience of 200k users but with rudimentary publishing…

The day kicks of with Affinity Labs. CEO and founder Chris Michel is talking. He talks about how he started military.com in 1999 at the height of the boom. He raised $39m capital and wasted $25m, he says. Then, in 2000 the crunch came, the…