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	<title>Alex Iskold Technology Blog</title>
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		<title>The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web 2.0 has brought many wonderful innovations and ideas to the Internet. We can no longer imagine the web without a social dimension, and we can no longer imagine an online world that is read-only - it is now a read/write web full of user-generated content. But there is another fairly recent innovation, which might [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/216/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexiskold</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[distributed systems]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/?p=216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Because Twitter is getting more popular, every glitch in the service is now felt more acutely. Going without Twitter for many people is even harder than going without email, and so outages lead to complaints. Complaints pile up and become debates, asking questions like: should Twitter be converted into a protocol and become decentralized? Is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faster - Why Constant Stress is Part of Our Future</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/faster-why-constant-stress-is-part-of-our-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran a weekend piece entitled In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, which focused on the stressful nature of blogging. Using our friend Marc Orchant&#8217;s death and Om Malik&#8217;s heart attack as examples, Matt Richel built a case for web journalism as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Dream: 17 Years of Engineering Software</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/the-american-dream-17-years-of-engineering-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 Seventeen years ago, on April 10th 1991, a plane landed in John F. Kennedy airport. That plane had just crossed the Atlantic carrying, amongst others, passengers escaping the crumbling Soviet empire. One of whom was me. I walked off that plane with a first ever taste of Coca-Cola in my mouth, a lame teenage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Guide to Business Development 2.0</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/a-guide-to-business-development-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[linkedin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 The reason we all hate cold calls so much is because they are very intrusive. A stranger interrupts our flow, and takes precious seconds away from our lives. But maybe even as recently as 10 years ago we did not feel it so acutely. Why? A few reasons. First, the pace of our lives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Traits of a Rockstar Software Engineer</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/top-10-traits-of-a-rockstar-software-engineer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexiskold</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/?p=212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Every company is a tech company these days. From software startups to hedge funds to pharmaceutical giants to big media, they&#8217;re all increasingly in the business of software. Quality code has become not only a necessity, but a competitive differentiator. And as companies compete around software, the people who can make it happen - software [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semantic Web Patterns: A guide to Semantic Technology</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/semantic-web-patterns-a-guide-to-semantic-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexiskold</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In this article, we&#8217;ll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We&#8217;ll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds.
In a recent interview Tim Berners-Lee pointed out that the infrastructure to power the Semantic Web is already here. ReadWriteWeb&#8217;s founder, Richard MacManus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways To Have Fun with Twitter When You&#8217;re Bored</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/5-ways-to-have-fun-with-twitter-when-youre-bored/</link>
		<comments>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/5-ways-to-have-fun-with-twitter-when-youre-bored/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all had one of those days when the universe seems to be playing games with us. Things haven&#8217;t quite worked out all day, there&#8217;s nothing good on TV, all your friends are out with each other and forgot (didn&#8217;t want?!) to call you. Even 10 years ago this sort of Friday night would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Future Apps For Your iPhone</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/12-future-apps-for-your-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexiskold</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ With the new iPhone SDK, it&#8217;s just a matter of time before we see a wave of new applications. We expect a lot of popular web 2.0 apps to offer an iPhone version. Native Twitter, Facebook and Flickr clients for iPhone will run faster than their in-browser versions and will take advantage of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Apple Will Dominate Next Gen Computing</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/why-apple-will-dominate-next-gen-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexiskold</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Steve Jobs took the stage at the Apple Town hall meeting and announced two major things for the iPhone: 1) support for Microsoft Exchange and 2) the iPhone SDK. The Exchange support was a relatively unexpected move, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense. In order to unseat Blackberry as the number one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming Death of Paper as an Information Storage Medium</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/the-coming-death-of-paper-as-an-information-storage-medium/</link>
		<comments>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/the-coming-death-of-paper-as-an-information-storage-medium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was sitting in the bank watching a clerk copy information off a paper bank transfer to initiate a new wire transfer. Being a busy person I hate inefficiencies, and this was just plain bad. When I asked why the bank didn&#8217;t use an electronic copy to speed up the process, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of Freeconomics</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/beware-of-freeconomics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A few weeks ago we published a piece on this blog entitled The Danger of Free, in which we discussed the rise of free - a marketing strategy where digital products are given away. This month&#8217;s issue of Wired magazine features a cover story on the topic by editor-in-chief Chris Anderson. The article is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Recommendation Engines</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/rethinking-recommendation-engines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[netflix]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Over two years ago, Netflix announced a Recommendation Engine contest - anyone who invents an algorithm that does 10% better than their current recommendation system will win $1 Million dollars. Many research teams raced to attack the problem, excited by the unprecedented amount of data available. Initially quite a lot of progress was made, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are YOU Replaceble?</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/are-you-replaceble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the current US economic slowdown it is clear that the good old  days are over. At least for some chunk of 2008, more likely for the whole year, we are in for some gloomy times.
Companies are being forced to cut costs and let people go. Some smart people aren&#8217;t sitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/reaching-for-the-sky-through-the-compute-clouds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/?p=202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, a massive outage occurred at Amazon Web Services that generated a wave of negativity and criticism in blogopshere. Not long ago, Rackspace, one of the world&#8217;s largest hosting companies, experienced a outage that resulted in a similar reaction. When the backbone collapses, so do our favorite services. This makes us mad. It makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters Wants The World To Be Tagged</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/reuters-wants-the-world-to-be-tagged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Richard MacManus recently predicted, in 2008 we&#8217;ll witness the rise of semantic web services. From the native support for Microformats in Firefox 3, to the New York Times&#8217; utilization of rich headers metadata, to this week&#8217;s release of the Social Graph API by Google, semantics are starting to slip onto the web. The impact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How YOU Can Make the Web More Structured</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/how-you-can-make-the-web-more-structured/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[microformats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have written a lot here about the the vision of building a structured layer on top of the current web. Annotating billions of HTML documents in a bottom-up way or building top-down tools that can automagically interpret the existing information are the two approaches that we discussed. Together these approaches would result in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Work From Home&#8221; Generation</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/the-work-from-home-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ For decades in American households the most dreaded morning sound was that of an alarm clock. Sometime between 6 and 7am a beep or radio music signaled that it was time to get up and head to work. But in the early 21st century two things have begun to change. First, the alarm clock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freeconomics: The Danger of Free</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/freeconomics-the-danger-of-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexiskold</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[business model]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Everyone loves to get stuff for free. We line up to get a free drink, we sign up for free checking accounts,  and we&#8217;re happy to get a free gift with the purchase of our next car. We love free stuff, even though we all know and understand that free is an illusion. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App?</title>
		<link>http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/semantic-web-what-is-the-killer-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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The Semantic Web has been in the making for some time and people think it is nearing maturity. We have written about this trend extensively, with our two most notable posts being an analysis of the challenges of the classic bottom-up approach and the promise of the new top-down one. Regardless of how the Semantic [...]]]></description>
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