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		<title>Gmail Call Phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Mansour</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the Google Buzz feature roll out has been a great success for Google as they are applying once again the same strategy on Google Voice: Just Stuff it in Gmail. It really makes sense to use such a large loyal user base for mass roll out at the same time without the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justin Bieber U Smile 800% Slower in PaulStretch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Mansour</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been hyped for the last 15 hours all over the internet about Justin Bieber song U Smile getting slowed down 800% resulting in a 35 min epic music. What&#8217;s the big deal? Even Shamantis, the author of this music work, is not fascinated by what he did, not claiming &#8220;to be any sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s April Fools day 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Mansour</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year I wait April 1st to see what the team at Google have come up with ideas. PigeonRank, Google writer, Gmail paper, &#8230; were interesting and innovative and shows that Google puts efforts into creating April fools themes. This year, it was more like a disappointment. Missing vowels from Gmail&#8217;s login page Another prank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook acquires contact importer Octazen Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Mansour</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Octazen Solutions is a two employees startup company in Malaysia developing a contact importer software that allow sites like Facebook to grow exponentially in users. A feature like Friend Find where a registered user, by simply entering his email address and password, will be able to send an invite to his entire contact list. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voice queries will boost mobile web usage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Mansour</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google launches a new set of services this week that will challenge many startup companies core products as Gigaom puts it. I see it as a good move for the benefit of technology because Google is one the companies that have the means to make a change at a large scale. Startup companies had the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Goggles takes mobile search to another level</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Mansour</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the creation of the web, searching for information irrespective of the type has been depending on text input to formulate the search query. This approach was good enough since the information was mainly text based. When media content started spreading drastically over the web, photos and videos and as they say, &#8220;a picture is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Argleton the town that only exists on Google Maps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unusual and weird stories are always viral because it is simply the nature of human behavior to seek the unusual and odd in life. Many people have searched this morning for a town called &#8220;Argleton&#8221; on Google Maps and got a match to a small village just off the A59 near Ormskirk, Lancashire, United Kingdom. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Internet is Exploding</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Mansour</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very interesting presentation on Internet and the economy presented by Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker at Web 2.0 Summit on Tuesday. BusinessInsider summarizes the presentation as follows Mobile internet is bigger than you think. iPhone is becoming THE mobile platform. Social media, mobile devices are changing communications and commerce. Mobile internet trends in Japan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Bing adds real-time Twitter and Facebook updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is confirmed that Microsoft reached a deal with Twitter and Facebook to add real-time updates into their search engine Bing. However, it only took few hours for Google to announce that they also got a similar deal with Twitter. No clear information is yet available regarding Facebook. You can try the beta version of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Performance and Scalability &#8211; Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Mansour</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Rothschild, Vice President of Technology at Facebook gives an interesting presentation about “High performance at massive scale – lessons learned at Facebook” held at the center of networked systems at UC San Diego. Some impressive facts presented Facebook have 300M active users (no big secret) They now have 30,000 server, adding new capacity daily. [...]]]></description>
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