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		<title>Paul Carr on quitting Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve remembered what it feels like to laugh loudly at a joke without having to disrupt the flow of conversation for two minutes while I “overhear” it. I’ve become closer to my real friends, and more distant from total strangers. Which seems like the right direction for things to be moving in.

I think what people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/28-08-2010/paul-carr-on-quitting-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Google boycotts JavaOne 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Googlecode&#8217;s blog:

So we’re sad to announce that we won&#8217;t be able to present at JavaOne this year. We wish that we could, but Oracle’s recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally.

Not surprising that Google [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/28-08-2010/google-wont-go-to-javaone-2010/</link>
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		<title>TARDIS appears at MIT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Doctor: [talking about the TARDIS] I don’t know what is wrong with her, she&#8217;s sort of&#8230; queasy, indigestion&#8230; like she didn&#8217;t want to land.
Rose: [deadpan] Well if you think that&#8217;s gonna be trouble, we can always get back inside and go somewhere else.
[beat. The Doctor and Rose then start laughing.]

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		<link>http://www.venera7.com/27-08-2010/tardis-appears-at-mit/</link>
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		<title>Your library in a wafer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Asimov&#8217;s Foundation&#8217;s Edge (if you haven&#8217;t done it already, go get the full series and read them!):

&#8220;With this I am,” Pelorat said and held up a square wafer about twenty centimeters to the side and encased in a jacket of silvery plastic. Trevize was suddenly aware that Pelorat had been holding it since they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/27-08-2010/your-library-in-a-wafer/</link>
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		<title>Facebubble?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Broadstuff&#8217;s take on the The Guardian coverage on Facebook being valued at more than $33bn (£21.3bn) as investors try to secure a stake in the social networking site in anticipation of its flotation on the US stock market:

But in The Old Days you got pre-flotation shares at pre-flotation prices, not at a secondary market price [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/26-08-2010/facebubble/</link>
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		<title>Fed Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I start, I&#8217;d like to disclose that I&#8217;m currently working for one of the companies named in this post and that I also am a former employee of another one referred here too (sorry guys, enough clues for today). Also, for the shake of clarity, I&#8217;d like to repeat that what&#8217;s written here is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/26-08-2010/fed-up/</link>
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		<title>The trend of geotagging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manuel Guerreiro explains why he finds geottaging services as Foursquare useful and why he doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s something to worry about when it comes to privacy:

Para nada lo veo como una intromisión en mi intimidad, al fin y al cabo todo lo que comparto en redes sociales es una parte de mi tiempo que hago [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/26-08-2010/the-trend-of-geotagging/</link>
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		<title>Blazing fast accents on the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is, to my own delight, and auto discovered tip. If you want to quickly accent vocals in the iPad spanish virtual keyboard, just do what your intuition tells you.
Push the vocal key, do a quick slide up from the key with your finger and voilá, you just got served! Compared to the old, standard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/26-08-2010/blazing-fast-accents-on-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>A tip for conf-calling with distributed teams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The simpler, the better.
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		<link>http://www.venera7.com/21-08-2010/a-tip-for-conf-calling-with-distributed-teams/</link>
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		<title>How to disable Facebook places</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, your friends call tell the world where you are without your permission. And yes, it is activated by default. Even if you are a Foursquare whore, you may want to disable this.
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		<link>http://www.venera7.com/20-08-2010/how-to-disable-facebook-places/</link>
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		<title>The Art of Analog Computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very funny. Watch it even if you&#8217;re not a Mac user (you&#8217;ll miss some jokes though).
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		<link>http://www.venera7.com/18-08-2010/the-art-of-analog-computing/</link>
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		<title>There are three kinds of lies&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Techcrunch just published their browsing traffic: they don&#8217;t miss the point and they just use their data to illustrate how the iPad usage has skyrocketed. But I can&#8217;t quite resist to twist it a bit and use the numbers to try to illustrate how the companies involved could *cough* hypothetically read them.
Bear with me while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/18-08-2010/three_kind_of_lies/</link>
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		<title>Startups vs Corps: who&#8217;s creating jobs in IT?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vivek Wadhwa on Techcrunch:

But I do know one thing for sure: it isn’t the big companies that create the jobs or the revolutionary technology innovations: it is startups. So if we need to pick sides, I vote for the startups.

And I do agree. But in the rest of the world (developing countries, Europe, and specially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/17-08-2010/startups_corps_it_jobs/</link>
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		<title>The next battle is in the wireless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Gosling on the negotiations between Sun and Google for Java licensing before the Ads Giant decided to go Dalvik for their Android platform:

Money was, of course, also an issue between Sun and Google. We wanted some compensation for the large amount we would be spending on engineering. Google did have a financial model that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/17-08-2010/gosling-java-google/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Schmidt interviewed at the WSJ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,&#8221; he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends&#8217; social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/16-08-2010/googles-schmidt-interviewed-in-the-wsj/</link>
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		<title>Taking from Open Source, but not willing to give back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Accenture asked 300 large companies about their Open Source adoption; here&#8217;s some of the results they got back:

When it comes to the benefits of open source, the cost was no longer viewed as the key benefit, with respondents focusing instead on other aspects:

76 percent of respondents in the UK and US cited quality as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/16-08-2010/taking-from-open-source-but-not-willing-to-give-back/</link>
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		<title>Procrastination in the language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Specifically, these are the words “just” and “should“:
- I’m just going to … (check email for a second, give that person a call, etc.)
- I should be doing blah or bleh.
They both deny some aspects of reality.

Go for the full article; it&#8217;s really worth it.
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		<link>http://www.venera7.com/25-06-2010/el-deberia-sintoma-de-procrastinacion-y-origen-de-problemas/</link>
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		<title>Lose a general, win the war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But that tradition was somehow lost in the Korean War and buried conclusively in Vietnam. Nowadays, dynamic young leaders can’t emerge as quickly, because almost no one is fired. In a much-discussed 2007 article in Armed Forces Journal, Lt. Col. Paul Yingling wrote that “a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.venera7.com/24-06-2010/lose-a-general-win-the-war/</link>
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		<title>Os presentamos el Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ironía de hilo fino. Desgrana y expone una a una y de una manera muy inteligente las técnicas de marketing que Apple tan bien utiliza para vender sus nuevos productos.
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		<link>http://www.venera7.com/24-06-2010/os-presentamos-el-book/</link>
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		<title>Nueva política de privacidad de Apple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Uh, oh, aquí llegan los iAds. De una primera lectura, no parece algo tan salvaje como lo que hace Google, pero cuando una compañía de tecnología se mete en el negocio de la publicidad, mal asunto para la privacidad.
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		<link>http://www.venera7.com/23-06-2010/nueva-politica-de-privacidad-de-apple/</link>
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