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		<description><![CDATA[After many years driving a free-trial followed by paid subscription-only model, my friends at Finicity have released a completely new version of Mvelopes and introduced a new Freemium business model. The new version of Mvelopes is an astounding upgrade from the old version. Combined with the new iPhone and Android applications, this is the tri-fecta [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nicholasthomas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3278796&amp;post=347&amp;subd=nicholasthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cassandra – A structured storage system on a P2P Network
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=24413138919&#38;id=9445547199&#38;index=9 by Avinash Lakshman on Monday, August 25, 2008 at 5:31pm When I joined Facebook I was eagerly looking forward to a new challenge. Fortunately, Facebook cannot be accused of a lack of challenging assignments. Prashant Malik,a colleague in Facebook from the Search team, was thinking about how to solve the Inbox Search problem. This challenge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nicholasthomas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3278796&amp;post=223&amp;subd=nicholasthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TBG Digital Study: High Conversion Performance in Facebook’s Social Context Ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TBG Digital Study: High Conversion Performance in Facebook’s Social Context Ads:   TBG Digital, a Facebook advertising and social media specialist company, has released data based on a recent client study that indicates social context ads perform more effectively than non-social context ads, according to certain metrics. The findings support a 2010 Nielsen study published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nicholasthomas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3278796&amp;post=218&amp;subd=nicholasthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Adds +1 Button to Image Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted from http://mashable.com/2011/11/09/google-plus-one-image/     Google‘s proliferation of the +1 button continued Wednesday as the company added the feature to image searches. The button, which was introduced in March as an answer to Facebook’s “Like,” is equivalent to a stamp of approval from Google users. Over the past few months, +1s have appeared next to news [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nicholasthomas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3278796&amp;post=216&amp;subd=nicholasthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet &#8211; Baratunde Thurston (The Onion)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baratunde Thurston (The Onion) 10:30am Thursday, 10/13/2011 Keynote Location: Metropolitan Ballroom Baratunde will talk about things related to the Internet and likely the World Wide Web, but only versions 2.0 or later. Baratunde Thurston The Onion Baratunde Thurston is a politically-active, technology-loving comedian from the future. He co-founded the black political blog, Jack and Jill Politics and serves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nicholasthomas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3278796&amp;post=212&amp;subd=nicholasthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Dimension for Google Maps &#8211; Brian McClendon (Google)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian McClendon (Google) 10:20am Thursday, 10/13/2011 Keynote Location: Metropolitan Ballroom Brian will discuss engineering efforts within the Geo product division to use WebGL, a new programming language which allows web applications to generate interactive 3D graphics with any compatible web browser while using hardware GPU acceleration. JUST RELEASED GOOGLE MAPS GL!!!!! MapsGL &#8211; Vector Maps, dynamically rendered. Brian McClendon Google [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nicholasthomas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3278796&amp;post=210&amp;subd=nicholasthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Are Brands Using Facebook Right Now? &#8211; Michael Lazerow (Buddy Media)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Lazerow (Buddy Media) 10:05am Thursday, 10/13/2011 Keynote Location: Metropolitan Ballroom Keynote by Michael Lazerow, chairman and CEO of Buddy Media, Inc. Slides HERE http://on.fb.me/nfYD5k &#160; 1B Photos added every 4 days 6B Photos uploaded to Flickr to-date 52B minutes spent on Facebook per month&#8230; this is 1/2 of the time spent watching TV. Facebook is bigger than the entire Internet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nicholasthomas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3278796&amp;post=208&amp;subd=nicholasthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Common Sense: Why Everything That Seems Obvious Isn&#8217;t &#8211; Duncan Watts (Yahoo! Research)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duncan Watts (Yahoo! Research) 9:55am Thursday, 10/13/2011 Keynote Location: Metropolitan Ballroom We are much better at Rocket Science that we are at the problems to do with human behavior.  This is the great puzzle. Why does rocket science seem hard and social science seem common sense? Why are we able to traverse these situations&#8230; How to dress for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nicholasthomas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3278796&amp;post=206&amp;subd=nicholasthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Star Wars Uncut: Crowdsourcing the Force &#8211; Casey Pugh (VHX.tv)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Casey Pugh (VHX.tv) 9:35am Thursday, 10/13/2011 Keynote Location: Metropolitan Ballroom Fun talk on his 3-day project that won an emmy&#8230; http://www.starwarsuncut.com. Casey Pugh VHX.tv Casey Pugh is an Emmy-winning technologist immersed in the online video industry. He was one of the original Vimeo developers and then moved onto Boxee. In 2009 he created StarWarsUncut.com, a crowdsourced remake of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nicholasthomas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3278796&amp;post=204&amp;subd=nicholasthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re-thinking IT: Supporting the Business Without Getting In the Way &#8211; Ben Fred (Google)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Fried (Google) 9:25am Thursday, 10/13/2011 Keynote Location: Metropolitan Ballroom CIOs and IT folks are often thought of as the ones who say no or who try to box people into doing things a certain way. Fortunately, the growth of new technologies in the workplace and widely accessible open source software have ushered in huge potential for IT [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nicholasthomas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3278796&amp;post=202&amp;subd=nicholasthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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