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		<title>GUI as Interpretive Dance: Oblong/g-speak</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2010/02/16/gui-as-interpretive-dance-oblongg-speak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe one day I&#8217;ll be cool enough to get a TED invite and i can see stuff like Oblong&#8217;s demo of their g-speak interface.  
As eye candy this is wickedly cool, and, naturally since its developed by the guy who did the design of the imagined interface for Speilberg&#8217;s Minority Report, everyone thinks it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for an IP/Trademark Penalty Box?</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2010/02/13/time-for-an-iptrademark-penalty-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeitgeist.com/?p=221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iiiinteresting.  Twitter seems to, despite previous assurances from co-founder Biz Stone that it wouldn&#8217;t,  be going after app developers using &#8220;Tweet&#8221; as part of their app names.
Now, if Twitter actually had a trademark on the term &#8220;tweet&#8221; it would be one thing, but to be sending takedown notices for something you don&#8217;t own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First, Do No Harm&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2010/02/13/first-do-no-harm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[buzz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data mining]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeitgeist.com/?p=215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking more over night about the whole Google Buzz fiasco, and the more I think about it, the more horrified I am.  
What Google&#8217;s done in not thinking through the implications of the auto-follow defaults for Buzz will not be known for some time &#8211; but exposing everyone&#8217;s social network in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Buzz on Buzz</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2010/02/12/the-buzz-on-buzz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[api]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[client]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[safety]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sns]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeitgeist.com/?p=191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Google is going after Twitter and Facebook it seems with Buzz.   Buzz could be an interesting platform, but here are 4 key reasons why it&#8217;s probably not going to take off just yet:

Google doesn&#8217;t get user experience.
People are already invested in Twitter and Facebook
APIs Matter
Poorly Thought Out Defaults

Quantitative vs. Qualitative
Google is a data driven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo&#8217;s &#8220;Exodus&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2008/06/20/yahoos-exodus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been much moaning about the departures of really well-known names from Yahoo.  Now, I don&#8217;t know any of the folks involved, but if you compare all of the criticisms about what Yahoo has not been doing over the part few years in terms of innovating and getting new products out and or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Gary Krakow? Why is he off his meds?</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2008/06/05/who-is-gary-krakow-why-is-he-off-his-meds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2008/06/05/who-is-gary-krakow-why-is-he-off-his-meds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeitgeist.com/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TheStreet.Com has an add interview with some hilarious tripe about how Apple/Jobs needs to &#8220;bite the bullet&#8221; and &#8220;license WindowsMobile or RIM&#8217;s Blackberry&#8221; code.  
This guy is clearly in need of psychiatric help.  Like now.  I mean he&#8217;s either had a break, or he&#8217;s the most transparent and disingenuous shill since Rob [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6th grade Founder lands $6.5M from VCs</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2007/09/20/6th-grade-founder-lands-65m-from-vcs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2007/09/20/6th-grade-founder-lands-65m-from-vcs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently a 6th grader, Arjun Mehta,  in San Jose landed $6.5M in a series A round  round led by Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures for his idea of  an in-game commerce system called Playspan.
My first reaction is a combination of &#8220;Wow&#8230; smart kid!&#8221;  and &#8220;Holy crap.. we ARE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost forgot&#8230; I got to visit the HP Garage!</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2007/09/02/almost-forgot-i-got-to-visit-the-hp-garage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2007/09/02/almost-forgot-i-got-to-visit-the-hp-garage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were on vacation for a couple of weeks in the San Francisco bay area, and I, along with ~10 others, got courtesy of HP and led by HP&#8217;s Archivist Anna Mancini,  a private tour  during BarCampBlock of the Birthplace of Silicon Valley at the garage where Hewlett and Packard started HP in [...]]]></description>
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