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		<title>Improving the Windows desktop is so&#8230; 2010</title>
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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>The need for speed</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2010/03/the-need-for-speed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erick Schonfeld wrote an article in TechCrunch today called Google&#8217;s Need For Speed, in which he argues Google is obsessed with speed because it leads users to do more searches, which results in more ad clicks. He notes Google research that shows delays of a few hundred milliseconds returning results translated to 0.6% fewer searches by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I learned at Google</title>
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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>Bye-bye point-and-shoot</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2010/01/bye-bye-point-and-shoot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy new year, I hope everyone had a great holiday. I am getting back into the swing of things after returning from a week in Colombia and a brief Disney Cruise to the Bahamas with my family&#8211;as well as recovering from the various illnesses one might associate with: a) a trip to South America; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developers wanted&#8230; in Los Angeles, U.S.A.</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2009/12/developers-wanted-in-los-angeles-u-s-a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I went to the Jobnob Docstoc Happy Hour at Air Conditioned in Venice. The event was co-hosted by Julie Greenberg and Jason Nazar of Jobnob and Docstoc respectively. The idea behind the meetup is to connect technology startups with prospective hires who may be interested to work for &#8220;alternative compensation&#8221;&#8211;e.g., reduced salary, partial [...]]]></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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		<title>Read this book: Coders At Work</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2009/11/read-this-book-coders-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I began reading &#8220;Coders At Work, Reflections on the craft of programming,&#8221; by Peter Seibel. The format of the book is based on the earlier work by Jessica Livingston, &#8220;Founders at Work,&#8221; in which Ms. Livingston interviewed founders from a dozen or so successful startups on the details of their approach to starting companies.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What goes in v1.0?</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2009/11/what-goes-in-v1-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news: team KlickFu is close to working through all the major technology issues needed to deliver a fairly solid version of our initial product. Now comes the next challenge, especially for the product manager (i.e., me)&#8211;deciding which features are must-haves for version 1.
Part of the challenge is deciding what exactly V1.0 is and what is [...]]]></description>
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