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Special to The SunBreak from the neighborhood discovery artists at DealPop

For over 40 years, the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience has been an integral part of expressing our region’s pride in its Asian heritage.

Wing Luke was the Pacific Northwest’s first Asian American to be elected to public office (Seattle City Council, 1962) and a proponent of racial equality. The museum he envisioned during his tenure, before his untimely death in 1965, continues to realize his passionate dream.

The museum has seen three locations over the years, with the latest being a newly renovated, 1910 building on the corner of 8th Avenue South and South King Street. The seemingly endless rooms house some of the greatest Asian Pacific American history, culture and art found north of San Francisco. Guided tours through historically preserved hotel rooms also take you back in time to give you a peek into the everyday lives of early Asian pioneers.

But it isn’t just the museum’s unique and healthy exhibitions that draw a crowd. Their tours of the Chinatown-International District are yet another set of reasons to head east out of Pioneer Square. (You can simply not go wrong with taking yourself on the "Touch of Chinatown" tour.) And those tours do a wonderful job illustrating one of the most critical goals of both Wing Luke and the museum which acts as his memorial: growing the neighborhood of the Chinatown-ID.... (more)

In the beginning there was Mercata and the promise of discounts from group buying. And there was also ActBig, Zwirl, and C-Tribe. And the market liketh them not. Mercata was laid low in 2001, although its intellectual property would live on.

Today, a new generation of group and social buying sites have sprung up: Groupon, Living Social. And, since it's the Internet, a second (or third) generation. Seattle is home to Tippr, Wrazz, and DealPop. Chicago has YouSwoop. Buywithme is expanding. Whither Groop Swoop, SwoopOff, SocialBuy? One can only wonder.

The largest have millions of subscribers, across the country; the bulk are just starting out, and working a geographic niche furiously, advertising themselves as the way to connect with your city. The shared, cloying cuteness of Internet naming conventions aside, the clock is also ticking for all these second-generation companies as they try to define themselves for customers.

TechFlash already sat down with Tippr for a differentiation chat: They see themselves as a collaborative, deal-delivering platform, less tied to brand recognition than Groupon. We knocked on DealPop's door to see what they were all about.

[Full disclosure: DealPop is a SunBreak advertiser and you should probably subscribe to their email alert service right now. Upper right-hand corner there. Do it.]

Right away what sets DealPop apart is that their downtown Seattle offices are the home of WhitePages.com. Alex Algard founded WhitePages in 1996 in his Stanford dorm room, stealing a march on Baby Bells and their printed phone books everywhere, and today the company has 200 million personal listings and 15 million businesses, with over 20 million monthly unique users. They're now incorporating Twitter and Facebook results into their people searches. They have a top 10 iPhone app.... (more)