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		<title>Thank You, Steve Jobs!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was just another day. I was finishing up dinner when I got a text and a phone call from my brother in quick succession. “Did you hear Steve Jobs died?” I read from the text as my brother&#8217;s voice was saying the same thing to me through the white earbuds of my iPhone. My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Invests $200M in Farmville? Is Search Over?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to ReadWriteWeb, Google has invested over $100 million and possibly as much as $200 million in Zynga, bringing the total investment in Zynga to somewhere around half a billion dollars. You might not know the name Zynga, but if you spend any time on Facebook, you have probably heard of some of the games [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blippy Breach Puts Credit Cards Numbers on Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too worried about how you share your personal information online? Well, VentureBeat has reported on an incident that should make you rethink your position. Blippy, the purchase sharing social site that I covered in January, has had a security breach.  As a result, they exposed the credit card numbers of some of their users [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KnowEm: Do You Control Your Name?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People constantly talk about how important a name is to a business. They usually follow that declaration up by emphasizing that a good domain name is just as important. What people often forget is how important it is to register the name of your business on all the major social media sites. Now some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DoGooders DoEvil?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Plugins]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoGood Headquarters recently released a plugin for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari that replaces ads on websites with “green related initiatives, philanthropic calls for action and health and wellness ideas.” Before I get critical of this new service, because I will, I just want to say that I sympathize with part of what they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BetterMe.com: Honest Feedback, Anonymously</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One common problem in businesses is not knowing what coworkers or employees think about a subject. Sometimes the subject is fairly mundane, so you can just ask. When the subject is more sensitive though, either you or the people you intend to ask might be hesitant about discussing the subject openly. In the past, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need to Rate Everything? Rate Your Church!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are obsessed with rating products and services online.  If you can never get enough and want to extend your ratings to churches, I found an article on ReadWriteWeb about a new site called ChurchRater.com that is dedicated to rating and reviewing churches. When I saw the site I immediately thought: landmine. Many people take religion very seriously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Education, Less Ad Clicking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, Chitika Research put out some interesting data comparing the relation between online advertising CTR (click through rates) in comparison to college education. According to their findings, the higher the percentage of college graduates, the lower the CTR for the population. Their conclusion from that finding was that advertisers who target more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networks for Authenticating Corporate Sites? Forget About It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly, web sites are allowing people to login using one of their existing social networking accounts. And for good reason. It makes life easier for users. Instead of having to signup for a new account and remember what login and password they used for a site, users can login using their account at Twitter, Facebook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google that Name, Buster!</title>
		<link>http://vansunder.com/research-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vansunder.com/?p=662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When many people think of a great product name or domain name, they quickly check to see if the domain name is available. If it is, they quickly purchase it and they&#8217;re in business. Think that&#8217;s enough? So, did the UK government. According to The Register, the UK government&#8217;s Directgov website named the children&#8217;s section [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dangers of Numerical Goals</title>
		<link>http://vansunder.com/dangers-of-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many managers seem to think that setting concrete numerical goals and riding their employees to deliver on them is the key to good management. If their employees don&#8217;t deliver, they need to be “talked to”. That&#8217;s definitely an approach, but it isn&#8217;t always an effective approach. The reasons why are complicated, but they come down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networks: Too Big to Ignore</title>
		<link>http://vansunder.com/social-network-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you wondered if marketing via social networks is worth considering for your business? If all the hype is real or if marketing on social networks is just another waste of time like marketing on Second Life turned out to be for almost everyone? Well, Nielsen has released numbers on social networking to give a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Times and Paid Content</title>
		<link>http://vansunder.com/nyt-paid-content/</link>
		<comments>http://vansunder.com/nyt-paid-content/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vansunder.com/?p=512</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it appears that the NY Times has decided that it is finally time to provide some of its content online for a fee. This isn&#8217;t a new idea. In fact, they did it from 2005-2007. They were even successful in doing it, bringing in about $10 million in revenue annually from it. Eventually, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Streaming Video: Now How Much Would You Pay?</title>
		<link>http://vansunder.com/live-streaming-how-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you might remember, I mentioned live streaming video in my 2010 Trend Predictions article. I think it is an area with a lot of potential as Leo Laporte seems to be proving with his TWiT.tv network, which is making him a pretty substantial living. So, we can take it for granted that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put Those Trolls On a Diet</title>
		<link>http://vansunder.com/negative-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David van Sunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all been there at one point or another. You pour your heart and soul into a product, article, podcast, etc and set it free for everyone to enjoy. Then you check back later and see that someone has made a comment. And that comment seems to be the harshest, most critical comment ever. Worse [...]]]></description>
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