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	<title>Oxford Bloggers &#187; Ben Werdmuller</title>
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		<title>Blowing up markets</title>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/07/blowing-up-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Werdmuller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airbnb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empowerment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banning sublets
Last week, the State of New York passed a bill that bans short-term rentals: specifically, no homeowner or renter may sublet their home for less than a month. The target is sites like AirBNB, an up and coming website that allows travelers to eschew pricey hotels – and their accompanying hotel room occupancy tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The product management cycle</title>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/the-product-management-cycle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Werdmuller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bad management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday: “The plan is A! We&#8217;ll market it at A!”
Tuesday: “Actually, I was thinking B. A is stupid. Who would want to do that?”
Wednesday: “Goddamnit, we need to be working towards C. Why does no-one see that?”
Thursday: “Maybe A was right &#8230;”
Friday: “This team sucks.”
Hint: pick a direction and run. And make sure – just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write real-time web applications with XMPP, PHP, and JavaScript</title>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/write-real-time-web-applications-with-xmpp-php-and-javascript/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Werdmuller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ibm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ibm developerworks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real-time web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve written a tutorial for writing XMPP-based web applications over at IBM DeveloperWorks:
Real-time web applications are networked applications, with web-based user interfaces, that display Internet information as soon as it&#8217;s published. Examples include social news aggregators and monitoring tools that continually update themselves with data from an external source. In this tutorial, you will create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An introduction to Activity Streams</title>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/an-introduction-to-activity-streams/</link>
		<comments>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/an-introduction-to-activity-streams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Werdmuller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[activity streams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve written an introduction to the Activity Streams standard for IBM DeveloperWorks:
Enter Activity Streams, an evolving standard that extends Atom for expressing social objects. Although it is a young standard, Activity Streams is fast becoming the de facto method for syndicating activity between web applications. For example, MySpace, Facebook, and TypePad all now produce Activity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My pro web apps: June 2010</title>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/my-pro-web-apps-june-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/my-pro-web-apps-june-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Werdmuller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beanstalk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freckle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gmail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google calendar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lighthouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[producteev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prowebapps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I’d list the third-party web applications I use on a daily basis to do my job. There are plenty more that I use for fun (Flickr) or find useful (Twitter) – but these are the things that have become integral to how I make money. I’d be interested to hear yours: if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a distributed social network? You&#8217;re doing it wrong.</title>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/building-a-distributed-social-network-youre-doing-it-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/building-a-distributed-social-network-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Werdmuller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6d]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[appleseed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diso project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distributed social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kopal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noserub]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[onesocialweb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[status.net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some distributed social networking platforms and technologies designed to facilitate distributed social networking:

Status.net
DiSo
6D
Kopal
DSNP
Noserub
Appleseed
OneSocialWeb
Diaspora (included for completeness, but there isn’t any code yet)

Wow, that’s a lot! And following Diaspora’s flurry of both coverage and cash, you can bet there’ll be plenty more to come. But of all the projects listed above, I’d argue that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devices and desires: why the portable device wars are a red herring</title>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/devices-and-desires-why-the-portable-device-wars-are-a-red-herring/</link>
		<comments>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/devices-and-desires-why-the-portable-device-wars-are-a-red-herring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Werdmuller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ebooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[html 5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portable devices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
A little pre-history
When I was a kid, I had an Atari 130XE. You’ve probably never heard of it. It was an 8-bit, all-in-one box that booted straight into BASIC; a flexible, well-built, sturdy computer.
There was just one problem: it wasn’t a ZX Spectrum or a Commodore Amiga.
At the time, Britain was undergoing a low-budget computing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A note on me, Elgg, and social networking projects</title>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/05/a-note-on-me-elgg-and-social-networking-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://benwerd.com/2010/05/a-note-on-me-elgg-and-social-networking-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 11:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Werdmuller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consultancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[curverider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elgg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Enough people have asked me about this over the last year, that I thought I’d write a little more about why I don’t do social networking work.

Most regular readers will be aware that I co-founded Elgg, the open source social networking framework. If you weren’t, it’s not hard to work out: my last name is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So why do we need apps anyway?</title>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/04/so-why-do-we-need-apps-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://benwerd.com/2010/04/so-why-do-we-need-apps-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Werdmuller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[app store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ebooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epub]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[html 5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[html5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idpf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[itunes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steve jobs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ebooks don’t cut it: everyone wants an app
NB (May 20, 2010): A lot of my suggestions for web-based apps are part of the Google Chrome Web App Store. In fact, the .crx file used there is a zip file with very similar characteristics to epub. (I assume, as Chromium is open source, that .crx files [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The future of publishing</title>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/04/the-future-of-publishing/</link>
		<comments>http://benwerd.com/2010/04/the-future-of-publishing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Werdmuller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[app store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intellectual property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interpub10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intersection: Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to everyone who came to Intersection: Publishing yesterday. Our fascinating round-table discussion was cut off far too soon: I think we could have gone on for days and only barely covered the issues. It’s clear that an open conversation that treated publishers, authors, readers, technologists and lawyers as equals was long overdue. (Missed it? [...]]]></description>
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