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		<title>Why Microsoft bought Skype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft, ever. Google is the next Microsoft, so Google is seen by Ballmer as the immediate threat — the one he has a hope in hell of actually doing something about. via I, Cringely Some really good points from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prasannag.com/2011/05/17/why-microsoft-bought-skype/</link>
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		<title>Google plays ball with carriers to kill tethering apps, violates spirit of the ‘open access’ it bid $4.6B to protect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via This is my next&#8230;. &#160; &#160; &#8216;Open&#8217; to carriers.]]></description>
		<link>http://prasannag.com/2011/05/04/google-plays-ball-with-carriers-to-kill-tethering-apps-violates-spirit-of-the-%e2%80%98open-access%e2%80%99-it-bid-4-6b-to-protect/</link>
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		<title>Why write?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We like to tell stories. We tell them all the time to friends, colleagues, kids, spouses, girl friends. The best stories are told many times over. Every time we say it, we get subtle feedback. Do they nod at the right places? Do they laugh at the right jokes? We adjust the story each time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prasannag.com/2011/04/15/why-write/</link>
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		<title>Mobile device OS upgrades: How hard can it be?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not just that the brightest at Microsoft or Nokia or Google can’t make an upgrade stick. It’s that the upgrade is not universally beneficial to the value chain. To remedy this, licensors have to resort to contractual obligations to ensure upgrades, but enforcement is non-trivial and can lead to aggravated relationships. via asymco. Phone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prasannag.com/2011/04/14/mobile-device-os-upgrades-how-hard-can-it-be/</link>
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		<title>Success, and Farming vs. Mining</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s upsetting is the number of people who have come to me with the idea of becoming miners: “I know nothing about software, but I can see there’s gold in them thar’ hills, and so I want to start up a company and make my million dollars! I’ve got an idea and everything, just tell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prasannag.com/2011/04/04/call-me-fishmeal-success-and-farming-vs-mining/</link>
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		<title>Mail Tip – Finer Things in Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mail Tip: When using data detectors (introduced in 10.5 Leopard) to create iCal appointments from Mail messages, highlight some text first in order to have it automatically inserted as a note in your new event. via Finer Things in Mac.]]></description>
		<link>http://prasannag.com/2011/02/17/mail-tip-when-using-data-detectors-introduced-in-%e2%80%93-finer-things-in-mac/</link>
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		<title>Coffee Shop Integrity on the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Put simply: if I wouldn’t chat about it with my friends in person, why in the world would I broadcast it to the whole TCP/IP universe? via Inventing a Planet]]></description>
		<link>http://prasannag.com/2011/01/09/inventing-a-planet-%c2%bb-coffee-shop-integrity-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Clean interface for an ugly implementation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When your implementation is a total hack, put it behind a good interface. Then you can swap the implementation later without rethinking the design. via 37 Signals]]></description>
		<link>http://prasannag.com/2010/12/16/coding-tip-clean-interface-for-an-ugly-implementation-37signals/</link>
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		<title>Things I Used to Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now it’s common knowledge that your cell phone can bring down an airliner. But if that were true, the airlines would confiscate your phones, not just ask you to turn them off. And given the fact that at least one moron leaves his phone on during every flight, you’d expect at least one cell phone-related [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prasannag.com/2010/10/11/the-dilbert-blog-things-i-used-to-know/</link>
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		<title>How I Write an Article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shawn Blanc on his writing process It would be better to write 5,000 words and edit them down into a 2,000-word article than to write 500 words and force more in an attempt to build it up. Spot on. I really hope universities stop using number of words as a constraint for papers and essays. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prasannag.com/2010/09/24/how-i-write-an-article/</link>
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