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In the latest episode of “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler talks with Kogeto founder and CEO Jeff Glasse about the Dot, his company’s panoramic video iPhone attachment, which was built with funding from Kickstarter.

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Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including The Onion‘s Baratunde Thurston (left), Facebook’s Morin Oluwole, and bitly’s Tim Devane. Register now.

Guns & Patriots, a weekly newsletter and online site associated with conservative newspaper Human Events, just got some competition. This morning The Daily Caller launched Guns and Gear, a new vertical with “the latest news about armed citizens defending themselves and their property,” says a press release. G&P covers a similar beat.

The twist: Guns and Gear is functioning under the leadership of Mike Piccione, the former founding editor of G&P. He left the publication earlier this year to work at the United States Concealed Carry Association. Neil W. McCabe is now editing G&P.

We asked McCabe if he’s worried about Piccione over at the new Guns and Gear. “I have not seen his new venture, but I wish him the best,” McCabe said. “It is my guess that we will not compete on the same planes and, like a lot of websites, we will complement each other, as he does his thing and we do ours.”

Piccione wasn’t immediately available for comment, but we’ll update if he gets back to us.

On a side note, McCabe called me a “bastard” when I told him I couldn’t include a promotional link in this post to a new software G&P is offering. I’m 50 percent sure he was kidding.

UPDATE: In an email, Piccione told us Guns and Gear won’t compete with G&P because Guns and Gear “is a much larger publication.” He said G&P was “more of a cottage product” when he was its editor.

In the latest episode of “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler talks with Andy Leff about his startup Meporter, a local news site that empowers citizen journalists to share stories as they’re happening (not to be confused with Stephen Colbert’s meReport 6700).

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In the latest episode of “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler grills entrepreneur Yaron Samid about his company BillGuard, a credit card protection service that recently closed a $10 million round of financing.

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In the latest episode of “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler gets pitched by OnSwipe CEO Jason Baptiste, who says his company’s tablet publishing platform is “insanely easy.”

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In the latest episode of “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler grills entrepreneur Aaron Harris about his startup Tutorspree, a site that connects students with private tutors.

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In the latest episode of “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler talks to Bo Fishback, CEO and co-founder of the buyer powered online marketplace Zaarly.

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In this episode of MediabistroTV’s “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler gets pitched by Michael LaValle, the CEO of recipe curation site Gojee.

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So, what do you think? Is Gojee the next big thing? Leave your thoughts in the comments section…

In the debut episode of MediabistroTV‘s “Elevator Pitch,” our CEO Alan Meckler meets with the founders of Wanderfly, a startup that provides travel advice based on a user’s interests and budget.

So, what do you think? Is Wanderfly the next big thing? Leave your thoughts in the comments section…

Today marks the launch of the Center for Public Integrity’s new project: a free investigative news website updated daily.

iWatch News will feature stories on money and politics, health care, national security, government accountability and, of course, waste, fraud and abuse. The site already features an in-depth series on sexual assault on college campuses and the lack of law enforcement and consequences for sex offenders. We’re told to expect “deep-dig stories” on Medicare fraud and transparency in state governments in the near future. They plan to publish around 15 major reports every year.

The site will also feature daily original reporting and fact checking. CPI Director of Communications Randy Barrett told FishbowlDC: “Too often bogus ‘facts’ become accepted ‘truth’ simply by being repeated often enough. We want to shoot that down.”

“Quality investigative reporting is increasingly rare,” CPI’s executive director William E. Buzenberg said in a statement. Barrett echoed that: “You used to see this kind of [investigative] coverage often in…newspapers. Not anymore. We want to fill that vacuum.”

CPI is a non-partisan nonprofit, and accepts donations from individuals and foundations. They hope to also raise money later this spring with a digital edition available to annual subscribers.