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	<title>The Gong Show</title>
	<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net</link>
	<description>Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital in New York City</description>
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		<title>THIS SITE IS NO LONGER BEING UPDATED&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gong Show is dead.  Long live The Gong Show.  In short, I got bored with Wordpress, so I&#8217;m moving my blog to Tumblr.
Part of the reasoning behind my decision was the Google seems to really dislike my blog.  It used to rank #1 for all kinds of vanity searches.  Now, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/09/30/this-site-is-no-longer-being-updated/</link>
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		<title>London Meetings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to London for Seedcamp and am interested in meeting other members of the web tech community there.  If you&#8217;ve been following this blog from the UK and are interested in chatting (or want to make an intro to someone I should meet), ping me.
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		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/09/02/london-meetings/</link>
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		<title>Google Chrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google launched a browser: Chrome.  I downloaded and it and took it for a spin this afternoon. Here are my first impressions.
HolyCrapItIsFast! Seriously, it starts up fast, tabs open and close fast, browsing is snappier and more responsive.  I wish I had some solid way to quantify what I am experiencing, rather than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/09/02/google-chrome/</link>
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		<title>Snow Crash in Wood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
At my high school one of the requirements to graduate was that you had to carve a 12&#8243; x 12&#8243; x 1&#8243; wood panel that is displayed in the hallways of the school after you graduated.  (Yes, I attended one of those private schools you see in movies, like Dead Poets Society).
I recently discovered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/08/27/snow-crash-in-wood/</link>
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		<title>Ripped From Today&#8217;s Headlines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Georgia accused Russia of a coordinated CYBER-TERRORISM attack today&#8230; little did Georgia know, Gmail was down for all countries, not just them.
Ba-dum Ching!
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		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/08/11/ripped-from-todays-headlines/</link>
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		<title>*Smacks Forehead* Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I read something that is so boneheaded that I literally smack my forehead.  It happens frequently enough, that I&#8217;m going to start a series of posts on the subject.  I&#8217;ll tag them all with the tag &#8220;smacksforehead&#8221; if you want to follow them in the future.
Here&#8217;s my first *smacks forehead* comment of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/08/05/smacks-forehead-part-i/</link>
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		<title>Decision Making</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an over-emphasis on the individual when it comes to responsibility and rationality in decision making.  I rarely agree with David Brooks, but I found this paragraph in his op-ed today to hit the nail on the head:
Decision-making — whether it’s taking out a loan or deciding whom to marry — isn’t a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/07/22/decision-making/</link>
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		<title>The Watchmen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I have a point of view about something in pop culture that can easily be summed up in 140 characters, I like searching for it on search.twitter.com to see how original or unoriginal my point of view is relative to other internet geeks.
For example, after watching The Watchmen trailer today, I was really worried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/07/20/the-watchmen/</link>
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		<title>Retire This Analogy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marco quoted the following paragraph from an article on MacUser.  The article bemoans users expectations that web services and software be free.  See the quote:
Despite the recent advent of ad-supported programs, people have been paying for software for years. And developers put no less time and energy into writing software than a woodworker [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/07/17/retire-this-analogy/</link>
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		<title>App Store is a Solution to The Penny Gap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greg Yardley recently published the following breakdown of Apple&#8217;s iPhone App Store applications listed at various pricing tiers. His insight was that &#8220;free&#8221; was no longer the most popular application price.  Instead, $0.99 was the most popular application price.  See below:

Many of the companies in the Union Square Ventures portfolio offer their services [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/07/15/app-store-is-a-solution-to-the-penny-gap/</link>
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		<title>Best-Worst Movies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The terrible reviews across the board for The Love Guru made me wonder where it ranks on the list of the worst rated movies of all time.  I decided to use Metacritic to find out.
Here&#8217;s a list of the all-time low scores for movies on Metacritic.  The Love Guru is in a tie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/06/25/best-worst-movies/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Media Properties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m surprised at the poor quality of @valleywag and @gawker on Twitter.  These users are just links to the most recent blog posts on these respective properties.  Why doesn&#8217;t Gawker Media empower their editors to create original content that runs over the Twitter accounts for their various blogs?
Are there any real attempts at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/06/25/twitter-media-properties/</link>
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		<title>LinkedIn Bug: People You May HUH?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am fairly good about keeping my LinkedIn info up to date and adding contacts as appropriate.  I just approved two new connections today.  After doing those approvals, I decided to take a quick browse through the People You May Know section.  It&#8217;s always interesting to see what LinkedIn thinks are the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/06/05/linkedin-bug-people-you-may-huh/</link>
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		<title>Keep These New Shoes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning to the blogosphere for style decisions is a terrible idea.  If I asked bloggers how to dress, I&#8217;d end up in a blue shirt and khakis every day.
That said, I&#8217;m trying on new shoes today that I got for sale online.  I&#8217;m not sure if I want to keep them.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/06/05/keep-these-new-shoes/</link>
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		<title>What do you want from your browser?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of his post, Bijan asked an interesting question today: &#8220;What do you want from your browser?&#8221;  I commented there in response, and then realized I&#8217;d written a post, so I&#8217;m reblogging here.  I said:
I think there&#8217;s a lot of room for innovation left in the browser. I find that a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/05/26/what-do-you-want-from-your-browser/</link>
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		<title>Paying Users for Participation in Advertising?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To briefly review recent news: Microsoft is going to allow advertisers to set a &#8220;cashback&#8221; reward to consumers for purchases that originate from ads on Microsoft Live Search.
Think about the quality of companies that currently incentivize users to participate in advertising:

AllAdvantage
InboxDollars
ClixSense
Bux.to

Microsoft should be embarrassed to join that list of companies.
Some naysayers might argue that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/05/23/paying-users-for-participation-in-advertising/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Gattaca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google launched online health records.  I was instantly reminded of the movie Gattaca.  Gattaca took a pessimistic tone towards the nature vs nurture argument, assuming that everyone has an upper-limit to his potential for success predefined by his genes.  In the movie corporations used this information to select the &#8220;most qualified candidates.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/05/19/googles-gattaca/</link>
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		<title>Misunderstanding Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Cuban writes in his post &#8220;Beating Google&#8221; that one way to beat Google is to pay the owners of  sites in the top 5 slots of the results page for the most popular keywords to remove their sites from the Google index.  Thus, Microsoft (or Yahoo or a new competitor) could claim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/05/14/misunderstanding-google/</link>
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		<title>Pay to Remove Ads?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have noticed a meme in the constant conversation about revenue models for web services recently. People are proposing a version of the &#8220;freemium&#8221; business model with the following twist: a product has slightly intrusive (but contextually relevant) ads baked in that users can remove by paying a small monthly fee.  
I understand the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/05/12/pay-to-remove-ads/</link>
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		<title>TwitterSnooze: One Week of Stats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I launched TwitterSnooze informally late Monday of last week, so I thought I&#8217;d write a quick post with one week worth of stats.  When I first launched the script, I thought I would wait a month before writing a post about usage, but I can see now that, based on the current usage rate, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/05/05/twittersnooze-one-week-of-stats/</link>
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