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Andrey Ternovskiy is the creator of Chatroulette, which is a free web cam based chat service that randomly matches up two people to chat until one hits the “next” button or disconnects.  This new take on the classic internet chat service has swept the net and mainstream media together and a social media frenzy to say the least.  Andrey recently sat down with TechCrunch to discuss his budding success as an internet entrepreneur and goes onto discuss the future of Chatroulette:

Andrey identifies in the video above that he has noticed a common trend where users will exchange Facebook or other contact information to continue chatting in the future.  He hopes to use Chatroulette to capitalize on this trend by creating an environment where users can save friends within the chat service to easily find again at a later time and resume conversations inside the service.  He notes that he doesn’t want to integrate with other social media services or have users leaving to use those other services.  Despite the current buzz, it seems like only a matter of time before Facebook creates a similar video-based chat service – just my two cents.