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Glympse is a mobile app that sends time-limited realtime links by SMS or email so recipients click a map and follow location updates (about every 3 seconds in active view, ~7s refresh in foreground) with no signup or passwords. Built system supports ~300,000 users today and claims capacity for ~1,000,000; backend design targets realtime scale and battery tradeoffs. Monetization plans include location-aware advertising and licensing via an API for partners to integrate Glympse into services.

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1. 0:00Glimpse introduction and goals
2. 2:26Glimpse vs Google Latitude
3. 3:51Competition with Google and Facebook
4. 5:16Business model and monetization
5. 7:22Scaling challenges and infrastructure
6. 9:47Glimpse as verb and noun
7. 10:51Distribution and fundraising

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