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		<title>Can the patent system be fixed?</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2011/06/can-the-patent-system-be-fixed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of discussion recently by several top startup investors about how the U.S. patent system is badly broken and calling for Congress to dismantle software patents altogether. In a nutshell, the main problem is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted many patents for inventions that seem like they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The downloadable is dead. Long live the downloadable!</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2011/05/the-downloadable-is-dead-long-live-the-downloadable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 06:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick update since my last post: for the past few months I have continued working as a consultant with HauteLook, the fashion flash sale site that was recently acquired by Nordstrom, managing their &#8220;off-website&#8221; experiences such as the iPhone app, mobile site, Facebook store, and some cool new stuff coming soon. (This has been an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zoom in and out for product innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I last posted. I did not intend to take a long break, although I have kept fairly busy in the meantime, working on KlickFu and doing some consulting for the L.A.-based flash sales fashion company, HauteLook&#8211;releasing an iPhone app and a mobile website and working on other projects. Also, I have built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ding! You are now free to keep your points to yourself</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2010/06/ding-you-are-now-free-to-keep-your-points-to-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, after returning from my trip to the Bay Area this weekend, I qualified for a free Rapid Rewards trip on Southwest airlines and received a confirmation email with the award codes. Yet the email did not include a link to post an announcement to Facebook or any other element of social interaction or social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving the Windows desktop is so&#8230; 2010</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2010/05/improving-the-windows-desktop-is-so-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 05:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a lot of the time my co-founder Rod and I have been working on KlickFu, we have often had the feeling the area of the business we have been focusing on&#8211;enhancing the experience working with the Windows desktop&#8211;is maybe not the coolest part of the industry. Yes, Windows 7 is an excellent product and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I learned at Google</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2010/03/what-i-learned-at-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been almost a year since I left Google, yet I am struck how often I refer to lessons I learned there as I make daily decisions for KlickFu. I thought it might be helpful to summarize some of the most important things I learned at Google, some of which may be fairly obvious, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Founder Institute coming to Los Angeles!</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2010/02/founder-institute-coming-to-los-angeles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday night I went to the info meeting for the upcoming Founder Institute session in Los Angeles. Founder Institute (FII) is the entrepreneur training and mentoring program started and run by Adeo Ressi, in which I participated last fall. After the initial session in Silicon Valley, FII started additional sessions in NYC, Seattle, Washington [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Unconventional business books for the holidays</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2009/11/5-unconventional-business-books-for-the-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holidays are coming up, which means many of us will be spending a lot of time on airplanes and other places where we might have some free time. So I thought it might be helpful to post suggestions for some good books to read while you are getting where you are going, or maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You and your research</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2009/11/you-and-your-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an interview with Joe Armstrong in &#8220;Coders At Work,&#8221; the excellent book I described in a recent post, the author Peter Seibel refers to a famous talk by Richard Hamming entitled &#8220;You and Your Research&#8221; in which Hamming advises young scientists on how to do great work, make significant contributions to their fields, and achieve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting the SoCal Tech dots</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2009/11/connecting-the-socal-tech-dots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I wanted to give a shout-out to Dr. Tony Karrer, creator of the Southern California Tech Central (SCTC) web site, which aggregates blogs from various folks working in technology throughout SoCal. As of this week, Tony started including this blog on the site, as you can see from the new banner on the right side [...]]]></description>
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