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		<title>Google+ Grows to 25m Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a bunch of social networks, from the relatively tiny ones like Path to the behemoths like Facebook, and one thing that they all apparently have in common is that they&#8217;re growing. None moreso than Google&#8217;s new kid on the block Google+ though. In the first month since it&#8217;s launch Google+ has ensnared a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook to Google to iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.usrlab.com/2011/05/facebook-to-google-to-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 12:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bizarrely, getting your Facebook events sync&#8217;d on to your phone is a major hassle. It should be easy in this day and age with smart phones and web apps and webcal and caldav and all such cleverness. But it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s a pain. Nevertheless, it can be done though, it just requires jumping through a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Spotify Scandal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blogosphere is all a-buzz today after Spotify&#8217;s announcement that it&#8217;s free and open services are to come to an end relatively soon. As of May 1st anyone who isn&#8217;t a paying subscriber to the music service will find what they have access to severely limited &#8211; 5 plays of each track, and a further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Early Bird Gets &#8230; Left Behind?</title>
		<link>http://www.usrlab.com/2011/02/the-early-bird-gets-left-behind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the fundamental principles of agile programming, and something that&#8217;s leaked out in to other less trendy development methodologies is the notion of &#8220;release early, release often&#8221;. In a nutshell it says you should release your software product quickly and then update it when you have a new feature or two. It&#8217;s fundamentally different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January Beta Round-up</title>
		<link>http://www.usrlab.com/2011/02/january-beta-round-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During January I&#8217;ve played with a few interesting web apps. From small one-man developer ideas that people are building in their spare time to big VC funded sites there are some exciting things around the corner. About.me &#8211; http://about.me &#8211; An online &#8220;business card&#8221; app. All in all, pretty good. I&#8217;ve yet to see whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Social Step: Emotional Context Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.usrlab.com/2011/01/the-next-social-step-emotional-context-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing from the blog post I wrote a couple of weeks ago the rampant march of &#8220;emotional data&#8221; continues. Path, the &#8216;limited&#8217; social network that only allows you to keep 50 contacts in your network at any given time, have updated their app to version 1.3. The latest edition lets users tag posts with one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A long way down: Will Google survive?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past six months the chaps at Google have been busy. They&#8217;ve been pushing products out the door like nobodies business. There&#8217;s Google TV, Google eBookstore, Google Hotpot, Boutiques.com (although you&#8217;d be hard-pressed to figure out that&#8217;s a Google project just from the site). They&#8217;re innovating and inventing exciting things at GoogleHQ. There&#8217;s an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Social Step: Emotional Context</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching Amber Case&#8217;s recent TED talk, &#8220;We are all cyborgs now&#8221;, I learnt about the fascinating concept of &#8220;ambient intimacy&#8221;. As the self styled &#8216;digital philosopher&#8217; explains; &#160; &#8220;It&#8217;s not that we&#8217;re always connected to everybody, but at any time we can connect to anyone we want.&#8221; &#160; How intimate the relationship we have with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crowdsourcing Volatile Location Information</title>
		<link>http://www.usrlab.com/2011/01/crowdsourcing-volatile-location-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geolocation check-in apps, such as Foursquare, Latitude, Facebook Places etc, have become relatively mature in a very short period of time in internet terms. Foursquare, the market leader, has been in use for less than 2 years (although it is based on Dodgeball that was around for a few years prior to that). As the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New toys: scoop.it and ifttt</title>
		<link>http://www.usrlab.com/2011/01/new-toys-scoop-it-and-ifttt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.usrlab.com/2011/01/new-toys-scoop-it-and-ifttt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop.it Scoop.it is a new curation app that&#8217;s just opening up to Beta users. I&#8217;ve been playing with it for a little while, and I have to say it&#8217;s pretty awesome. I&#8217;ve used curation tools in the past (namely Curated.by) and while I&#8217;ve liked what they do it&#8217;s always felt like a bit of a [...]]]></description>
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