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by dazzla 4595 days ago
Yes although Groupon was a local/coupon twist on existing Daily Deal sites such as Woot! it seams with all the groupon hype that has been forgotten. Very surprising to me but looks like it's time for me to change my messaging.

Edit: "The deal-of-the-day concept gained popularity with the launching of Woot.com in July 2004, although Woot itself was a modified version of earlier dot-com bubble sites such as uBid. By late 2006, the deal-of-the-day industry had greatly expanded to over 100 deal-a-day sites. In November 2008, Groupon entered the market and became the second fastest online company to reach a billion-dollar valuation.[2]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_deal_a_day