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	<description>I am the only source. Believe at your own risk.</description>
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		<title>Analysis of Gowalla and Foursquare at WWDC. Not Apples to Apples</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s World Developer Conference is going on right now. It is the epicenter of the app creation world and should represent the greatest collection of taste makers and thought leaders in the mobile space. This seemed like the perfect opportunity to read the tea leaves of the Gowalla vs. Foursquare battle. I started tracking the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.bemily.com/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Leveraging Collective Insight with Twitter via Collecta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy news, especially fascinating stories. The New Yorker is chock full of fascinating stories. The New York Times is well written and generally interesting and covers significant stories of the day. There is not one written source that covers everything that I&#8217;m interested in. Over the years, I&#8217;ve had a set of sources that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.bemily.com/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Gowalla: Why I Use It, and Prefer It to Foursquare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gowalla is a mobile check-in application, and a competitor to Foursquare. It&#8217;s something that I didn&#8217;t understand at first glance, much like Twitter, and have come to appreciate immensely, like Twitter. This is essentially a reasoned sales pitch from someone who is invested from the standpoint that I&#8217;m a user, and nothing beyond that. How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.bemily.com/?p=112</link>
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		<title>What I learned today: 2/16/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kick users off Terminal Services (Windows server management) Agile Manifesto (Software development principles) NPR Story: Why Does Time Fly By As You Get Older &#8211; We perceive time by how much we have to write into our brain. The older we get, the less new experiences we have, the less we need to learn/remember. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.bemily.com/?p=97</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Nexus One: Getting the Fleet in Line with a Flagship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s Nexus One was announced last week and got a lot of press, but I think much of the press coverage was missing the larger point. Google&#8217;s goal isn&#8217;t to sell tens of millions of Nexus Ones. It&#8217;s goal is to get the carriers and manufacturers in line so they can sell hundreds of millions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.bemily.com/?p=89</link>
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		<title>How to Improve America&#8217;s Legislature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American government has some things that are worth considering fixing. (two suggestions at the end) There are two items that are the cause of the issue, and neither are bad in their own right, but when put together cause problems. 1. Representation based on geographical districts 2. Bills get edited and end up much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.bemily.com/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Unused Apps. The orphans of the App Store.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last two years, I have been a heavy user of the Apple App store. Based on data, my usage is in line with average usage, but at about 4x the volume of average. Part of this heavy usage is due to being product manager for an app, and the rest can be chalked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.bemily.com/?p=83</link>
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		<title>HTML5 Sample Repository</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are some things to show HTML5 Functionality Simple Samples: HTML5 Demos.com http://htmlfive.appspot.com/ Show-Off Sites: http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.bemily.com/?p=81</link>
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		<title>Webkit Sample Repository</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are a list of mobile sites with good examples of webkit code that is easy to replicate, or used to show potential: Easy to replicate GroupAware - Site that replicates native apple mobile os navigation, lists, orientation hooks and external docs JQTouch - JQuery extensions for webkit Fixed Positioning / Context (Referred by Sherif Tariq) GirlieMac &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.bemily.com/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Influences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, my manager asked his team what podcasts/RSS feeds we read. It was a nice exercise, and led me to re-organize Google Reader. and one that I&#8217;d love to have access to from everyone. If you want to share/suggest, I&#8217;d love to get your feedback either on Facebook or at http://ben.bemily.com Here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.bemily.com/?p=72</link>
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