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		<title>From Kevin Kelly&#8217;s The Satisfaction Paradox: On why Curation will be the only thing you&#8217;ll still pay for</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brilliant stuff from Kevin Kelly on the situation were are increasingly finding ourselves in with regard to Content Overabundance: There is more than you will ever be able to consume.
(Compare: The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We&#8217;re All Going To Miss Almost Everything &#8211; NPR ).
This is the fundamental equation you have to understand about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/from-kevin-kellys-the-satisfaction-paradox-on-why-curation-will-be-the-only-thing-youll-still-pay-for</link>
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		<title>Blog Is Back In Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned previously, I had been doing a lot of Curation over at Amplify.com, but the community there due to various issues is now nearly defunct (the arrival of Google+ for Interest Graph related discussions was partially responsible). And more importantly, the response time of Amplify has gotten so slow that I feel I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/blog-is-back-in-action</link>
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		<title>Think you can afford to not understand Gamification? Good luck&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why did Seth Priebatsch garner so much attention with his keynote speech on Gamification at SXSWi in Austin this year? At a conference where everyone agrees it is becoming increasingly difficult to break through the noise at all anymore no less.

Why? Because Gamification has not only been one of the trend words of 2010/11 in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/think-you-can-afford-to-not-understand-gamification-good-luck</link>
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		<title>Gartner Research study predicts all-out Tablet Wars, but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;could things go a lot more quietly, the way of the MP3 player market and total Apple / iPod dominance instead?
GigaOM was quick to point out 5 Problems With Gartner’s Tablet Forecast, among them:

Apple’s iPad is poised to continue its overwhelming lead in tablet sales until 2015, holding 47.1 percent of the market according to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/gartner-research-study-predicts-all-out-tablet-wars</link>
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		<title>Are the New York Times&#8217; reports of the Death of Blogging greatly exaggerated?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter&#8221; claims a recent article in the New York Times, based on some statistics gather by Pew Center research that appear to show a percentage decline in self-identified bloggers among the younger age groups, and stagnation among the more middle-aged set.
Is Blogging dying, or at least [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/are-the-new-york-times-reports-of-the-death-of-blogging-greatly-exaggerated</link>
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		<title>The psychology secret to Zynga&#8217;s success (now valued at $10 Billion!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so Facebook game maker Zynga is raising additional money at a $10 BILLION valuation. One would hope that that&#8217;s enough to make anyone&#8217;s ears prick up&#8230;
So how did they get here: By understanding something about human psychology, and then HACKING it for all its worth.
1) Addict people with SIMPLE, low learning-curve games, that 2) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/this-short-quote-reveals-the-secret-to-zyngas-success-now-valued-at-10-billion</link>
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		<title>This CHART tells you all you need to know: The Death Of The Music Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
CHART OF THE DAY: The Death Of The Music Industry
This stunning chart needs to be put in some context to understand the true nature of the upheaval facing what I like to call the &#8220;Dinomedia&#8221;:
1) Forget About Buying Music Online &#8211; People Don&#8217;t Even Want To STEAL Music!
2) FREE can actually work, with a little creativity: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/this-chart-tells-you-all-you-need-to-know-the-death-of-the-music-industry</link>
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		<title>Is The iPad A Fine Young Cannibal?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the larger &#8220;tech wars&#8221; of Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Google, the tablet form factor has all of a sudden gone from a relative novelty (even though Microsoft had tried to establish stylus-based tablets for years) to one of the key battle fronts.
Why? Because the iPad, barely 6 months old, has already sold around 7-8 Million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/is-the-ipad-a-fine-young-cannibal</link>
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		<title>As of Today, We Are Into The Last 100 Days Of The Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, September 23, marks the beginning of the 100 day countdown until the end of the year. This means that as of this evening you have 99 days plus a few hours left to finish out the year strong.
(Read my original post on why 100 Day countdowns are meaningful and actually work here.)
As you may have noticed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/as-of-today-we-are-into-the-last-100-days-of-the-year-2</link>
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		<title>Possible Branding Dangers for Twitter&#8217;s new Promoted Trends Ads?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter has started selling spots on its right sidebar &#8220;Trending Topics&#8221;, so-called Promoted Trends. Toy Story 3 is the first test candidate, as can be seen on the right:
When clicked, it takes you to the same Twitter Search (internal) view for that keyword phrase as any other Trending Topic would, only now the top tweet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/possible-branding-dangers-for-twitters-new-promoted-trends-ads</link>
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		<title>No matter what your message, this is what you&#8217;re up against</title>
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Mind boggling, isn&#8217;t it?
So the question is, how can your message, product, or service break through the noise?
I found this great Social Media counter widget in Jim Long&#8217;s (AKA @NewMediaJim on Twitter) thoughtful post The End of Innocence – Why Social Media Is the New Corporate Media, where he writes:

As social media has matured, I get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/no-matter-what-your-message-this-is-what-youre-up-against</link>
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		<title>Deeper iPad Intel: To Buy Or Not To Buy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the dust has settled a bit on the iPad launch (unlike that from the Icelandic volcano which is keeping me in Europe for a few days longer than planned), it is time for a round-up of initial impressions.
And while everyone has predictably been falling all over themselves to get in a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/deeper-ipad-intel-to-buy-or-not-to-buy</link>
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