For today's podcast, socalTECH spoke with Mike Jones, CEO of Userplane, a Los Angeles-based company that provides instant messaging and other applications for social networking web sites. Mike talks to socalTECH's Ben Kuo about his company's applications for social networking, customers like MySpace, and some of his company's plans in the IM federation space and possible venture funding.

Mike Jones: My name is Mike Jones, I'm the CEO of Userplane. We provide a communications platform that is embraced and integrated by different online communities. We have large clients like MySpace, Spark Networks, Date.com, and small clients that use our tools to create private communication experiences within their private community...