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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>BP did not plan to fail&#8230; and that was the problem</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2010/06/bp-did-not-plan-to-fail-and-that-was-the-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been over 40 days since the BP oil rig explosion and blow-out that has been spewing 15K-20K barrels per day into the Gulf and there is still no end in sight. Aside from the media coverage of the potential devastating impact on the environment and way of life of the people in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KlickFu invite list is open</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2010/05/klickfu-invite-list-is-open/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we are starting the KlickFu private beta. For those who don&#8217;t deal with the details of making software every day, a private beta means we are starting to distribute KlickFu to a small group of users to have them try it out and give us feedback, such as: do you like it, did [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://markgeller.com/2010/05/improving-the-windows-desktop-is-so-2010/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://markgeller.com/2010/03/the-need-for-speed/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<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>KlickFu, Bruin edition</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2010/02/klickfu-bruin-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we filed the provisional patent for the technology in KlickFu, so now we can gradually start coming out of stealth mode (finally!). One of the ways we are doing that is by running a KlickFu development contest with the UCLA ACM computer science student group. Last night was the kick-off meeting for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will you Blippy?</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2010/01/will-you-blippy/</link>
		<comments>http://markgeller.com/2010/01/will-you-blippy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blippy.com is the new social media site where users can automatically publish feeds of everything they buy. Unlike Beacon, the unsuccessful shopping news feed launched by Facebook and then scuttled due to negative user feedback, Blippy is entirely opt-in, and purchase notifications can be limited to specific vendors (Amazon, iTunes) or credit cards.
After using the [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://markgeller.com/2009/12/developers-wanted-in-los-angeles-u-s-a/#comments</comments>
		<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>You and your research</title>
		<link>http://markgeller.com/2009/11/you-and-your-research/</link>
		<comments>http://markgeller.com/2009/11/you-and-your-research/#comments</comments>
		<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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