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		<title>Suspicion confirmed</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/suspicion-confirmed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 02:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo has decided to acquire and buy its way to the top rather than innovate their way up. The list of acquired properties grows daily leaving one to wonder if their is a pattern or method to the madness.]]></description>
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		<title>Bits &amp; Bytes 5/24/13</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 18:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the loss of two good friends and partners my heart really isn&#8217;t into monitoring or posting about tech menutia. When I recover after attending their memorials hopefully I can return with a renewed vigor and dedication to the tasks ahead which both friends helped me with. Don&#8217;t take it for granted that your friends&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>GoFormz: App with potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 17:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seldom do I come across an app that demonstrates the kind of potential that excites me into wondering what it could become. That very thing happened in my mind when I recently came across GoFormz. As a user of Filemaker&#8217;s Bento on Mac OSX I have long wished that I could find something anywhere near&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Unwise Decisions Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 18:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I began blogging I did research on which platform to choose, Tumble or WordPress. Fast forward 5 years. Tumble is sold to Yahoo and I am overjoyed by my decision of long ago. Its not that I hate Yahoo, I don&#8217;t. I just think that any company that fumbled the future as badly as&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Users Fly Away from Tumblr</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/users-fly-away-from-tumblr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Yahoo has confirmed their 1.1 billion dollar buy up of Tumble users are abandoning the blogging platform in bunches. One of the reasons voiced often is that Yahoo couldn&#8217;t and can&#8217;t even successfully manage their own future, how can we expect them to do right by Tumblr? Tumble has over the last bunch&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Bits &amp; Bytes 5/20/13</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/bits-bytes-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, what happened in tech this past week that&#8217;s worthy of notice? Bits &#038; Bytes: Google I/O 2013 seems to have come off fairly well Glass has captured the imagination of gadget lovers everywhere Dell stock went in the tank dropping 79%. Congress looks into privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass. LinkedIn moving into personalized business&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Google Glass = Cyborg tech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 18:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Glass represents more than Star Trek&#8217;s Jordi they are more a huge step towards turning us into The Borg of Star Trek fame. Is resistance futile? Well a large contingent of users are swearing that they would never go that way but an even larger group can&#8217;t wait to get assimilated. That is exactly&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Spamming Your Notifications</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/spamming-your-notifications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 18:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is becoming the new method of pissing you off. As soon as we come to appreciate and rely on notifications the scammers are targeting them as the next target for exploitation. Yesterday I had 8 necessary alerts. All of a sudden this morning I had 35. 25 of them were bullshit marketing, schemes or&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Notifications</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 19:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has turned out to be the most needed and productive aspect of my Nexus 7. If tablets are to take over this will be the very indispensable thing that pushes them over the top. Notifications are often overlooked and seldom promoted in hype but I have personally come to believe notifications have enhanced and&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Count Us Out</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/dont-count-us-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 18:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the chant and mantra for companies as big as RIM, LG, Nokia and Dell. Even Mighty Microsoft is singing that song, heck, they are leading the choir. Remember Gateway and Compaq Computers? Sometimes an exit is quiet and unexpected. In other cases it is loud and anticipated. In many other instances the decent&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Cryptocurrencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 17:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if we need another term in our lives, now we get &#8220;cryptocurrencies&#8221;. The latest and so far the most successful incarnation is &#8220;bitcoin&#8221; (Winklevi) None of us really know what the hell they are but according to all the hype we want it. So have the geeks actually created a way to make money?&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Bits &amp; Bytes 5/10/13</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/bits-bytes-51013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another nothing week tech wise or is this just my opinion? It seems that news has slowed down or I have become jaded and numb to the blurbs that masquerade as news these days. I am not sure what would move me but it must be something other than new law suits and companies moving&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Google Glass, My Ass!</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/google-glass-my-ass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about an unnecessary solution to a problem that does not exist. Google is it. I immediately get an impression of elitism and privilege that puts me off desiring one. Now we are hearing the coming spy-like features and capabilities. When a couple of casual Google glass users are severely beaten or shot for their&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Creeping App Complexity</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/creeping-app-complexity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 20:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>technicalbeat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some developers erroneously  think that they can easily improve their apps by making them more dense and complex. Occassionally a talented development team will dig deep to improve their apps interface and general functionality and in turn wind up discovering whole new markets and hordes of loyal and committed users. Development should not be a&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting it Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 22:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some have fun living on the edge. Inventors of the first Atomic and Nuclear bombs did not know whether their toy would destroy everything but they took the chance and risked the survival of the planet and all mankind.]]></description>
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		<title>Runaway Technology and Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have we let our sense of adventure take over where common sense should have prevailed. In our never-ending pursuit of the new and cool we seem to have mindlessly and casually sacrificed basic protections and precautions. What we have opened up is a virtual Pandora&#8217;s Box of invasive technologies that hold the potential to undermine&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Divide 2013</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/digital-divide-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gap between the digital haves and have-nots has certainly narrowed in distressed communities such as among seniors, the disabled, low-income and youth on one hand, on the other hand far more disruptive gaps have erupted and will widen along other dangerous fault lines threatening to tear apart any allusions we have about ubiquitous communities.&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Google Glass</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/google-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best description I&#8217;ve heard of Google Glass described it as &#8220;a Segway for your face&#8221;. In that report most respondents didn&#8217;t welcome nor did they appreciate the covert and intrusive nature of the device. I personally pursue what I think are cool gadgets and devices but Googpe Glass is one that causes me to&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a personal firewall</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/creating-a-personal-firewall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building a boundary around you to protect your privacy. We need to exercise much greater caution and scrutiny in our selection of which technologies and tools we incorporate into our digital lives. More specifically we must know more about the ethics of those that create them. Blind faith does not work.]]></description>
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		<title>Google Play Store UI upgrade</title>
		<link>http://thecoolnessfactor.com/2013/05/google-play-store-ui-upgrade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I peeked in on Google Play this morning I was surprised to find a new user interface that was an improvement on what came before. I long thought Google could do better considering this is where the revenue flows from. Other companies should take the hint and get busy updating their early attempts and&#8230;]]></description>
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