Srini Kumar (srini), is the founder of the ''Unamerican.com'' website in 1994, which sold
sticker
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s and other
paraphernalia
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showcasing
counterculture
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. Srini has written the book ''StickerNation'', a book of 432 stickers published by
Disinfo
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rmation. He is also bassist and frontman for the San Francisco surf-rock band the Aquamen. He also founded the
Webzine
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online magazine conference series in 1998.
He is also the creator of Tinyvox application. Tinyvox turns
Facebook
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,
Twitter
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,
email
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and
message boards into a huge voicemail system.
References
15 Questions for Srini Kumar interview by ''The 15 Minutes Project'', July 1998
interview by
Rediff
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, May 1999
Unamerican.com: The truth in 5 words or less interview with Spite, October 1998
Anarchy's Ad Agency (broken link)(10 Mar 2007 archive copy of first page)
Interview with ''The Heights'' (Boston College
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student magazine), November 2000
A New Era In U.S. Security
CBS
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News, May 2002
Book Review: Sticker Nation
Evil Mad Scientist, March 2007
Living people
Stickers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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