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		<title>Micro-entrepreneurship a growing trend</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/30/micro-entrepreneurship-a-growing-trend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 16:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Do-it-Yourself Economy
Russell Howze was working as a creative at an advertising  agency in Atlanta when he got laid off due to budget cuts years ago.  For years he spent his time piecing together work through various corporate jobs, until he  decided to follow his heart. Russell then  founded a nonprofit organization for  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian teenager invents new space propulsion system based on Quantum Physics</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/30/egyptian-teenager-invents-new-space-propulsion-system-based-on-quantum-physics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 15:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Harnessing the dynamic Casimir effect.
Precocious young physicist Aisha Mustafa just patented a new system that could propel spacecrafts to the final frontier without using a drop of fuel.
In short her system taps one of the odder facets of quantum theory, which posits that space isn&#8217;t really a vacuum. It&#8217;s really filled with particles and anti-particles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deadly Phrases In Business That Can Kill Success</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/29/deadly-phrases-in-business-that-can-kill-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 04:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Language and emotion play a big roll in business success.
Did you ever stop and think about some of the words and phrases you use in your business communications everyday? And did you ever pause and truly think about what message you are conveying with your words and phrases. In today’s conversations, there are many words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail catalogs thrive in the Internet Age</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/29/retail-catalogs-thrive-in-the-internet-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 18:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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 More than 89.6 million Americans bought an item from a catalog last  year.
Spending online is increasing.  But retail catalogs are not fading away. Catalogs are still an important part of  business for retailers.
&#8220;It&#8217;s basically a marketing tool,&#8221; said retail  analyst Eric Beder, a managing director at Brean Murray, Carret &#38;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leap Motion’s gesture-control module to compete with Microsoft Kinect for Windows</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/29/leap-motions-gesture-control-module-to-compete-with-microsoft-kinect-for-windows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 18:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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A new rival is bringing some serious competition to Microsoft when it comes to  bringing motion controls to desktop and laptop computers. Leap Motion  has just launched a gesture-control device that may not be as powerful  as Kinect for Windows, but is definitely cheaper.
Dubbed the Leap, Leap Motion’s module is smartphone sized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crowdfunding from customers – new class of investors for startup capital</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/29/crowdfunding-from-customers-new-class-of-investors-for-startup-capital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 18:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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The amount of capital available for  entrepreneurs when you count the customer market is much larger.
The startup community gave itself a high five in April when the JOBS Act was signed.  Crowdfunding would enable startups to reach out to the whole world to   get access to funding, not just a small cabal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why everyone lies</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/29/why-everyone-lies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 18:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Everyone wants to believe that a few bad apples spoil the bunch.  but according to research everyone lies a little bit when given the opportunity, even to the point where they lose their sense of integrity.  Dan Ariely, author of the new book, &#8220;The (Honest) Truth  About Dishonesty,&#8221; explains why.
Not too long ago, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graphic: The price of college tuition</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/26/graphic-the-price-of-college-tuition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 18:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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The average  sticker price and average net price for tuition and fees at  public and  private colleges in the U.S. over the past 15 years.
There are two ways to think about college tuition price:

Sticker price is the full price colleges list in their brochures and on their websites.
Net price is the price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transforming the Future of the Insurance Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/25/transforming-the-future-of-the-insurance-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 02:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Futurist Thomas Frey: The insurance industry exists as a tool for mitigating the costs and  damage associated with a single incident occurring for an individual or  organization.
But this is nothing new. The Babylonians developed an early form of  insurance that was recorded in the famous Code of Hammurabi as early as  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Photos of the Week</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/25/top-10-photos-of-the-week-230/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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You took the yellow pill didn&#8217;t you?
Quote of the Day &#8211; &#8220;I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing &#8211; like showering.&#8221; &#8211; Yakov Smirnoff

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They have no idea&#8230;
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Alright! I&#8217;m the mutherclucking leader here.
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Whoops! Did I do that?
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Their escape was going so swimmingly well, until&#8230;
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Masochism at its finest
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The Great Panda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘American Idol’ finale sees all-time low ratings with only 21.5 million viewers tuning in</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/25/american-idol-finale-sees-all-time-low-ratings-with-only-21-5-million-viewers-tuning-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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American Idol
The &#8220;American Idol&#8221; finale hit a new low this week with nearly 22 million TV viewers tuning in to watch, down 31% from last year.
The crowd that tuned in Wednesday night when bluesy guitar man Phillip Phillips won the &#8220;Idol&#8221; crown constituted the smallest for an &#8220;Idol&#8221; finale in its history, according to final [...]]]></description>
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		<title>31.4% of homeowners in the U.S. are underwater on mortgages</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/25/31-4-of-homeowners-in-the-u-s-are-underwater-on-mortgages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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American homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages actually are only running a &#8220;paper loss.&#8221;
According to real estate site Zillow, nearly 16 million homeowners – not quite a third of people with  mortgages – owe more on their home loans than their properties are  worth.
Of all homeowners in  the U.S., 31.4% were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recently bankrupt Vallejo, California is now a model for other U.S. cities</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/24/recently-bankrupt-vallejo-california-is-now-a-model-for-other-u-s-cities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Vallejo, CA became the largest city in America to declare bankruptcy in 2008.
The working-class port city of Vallejo, California became the largest city in America to declare bankruptcy in 2008.  Crime and prostitution surged as the police force was thinned by 40  percent. Firehouses were shuttered, and funding for libraries and senior  centers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapid DNA sequencing could soon become a routine part of your medical record</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/24/rapid-dna-sequencing-could-soon-become-a-routine-part-of-your-medical-record/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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The latest technological competition involves the idea of threading a  single strand of DNA through a tiny, molecular-scale eyelet known as a  nanopore. 
Rapid DNA sequencing can provide enormous amount of information previously sequestered  in the human genome&#8217;s 3 billion nucleotide bases and soon may become a routine part of each individual&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Average web page surpasses 1MB in size</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/24/average-web-page-surpasses-1mb-in-size/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Bigger isn&#8217;t always better.  The average web page is now more than 1 megabyte (MB) and that&#8217;s bad for site owners and for mobile  users.
Back in December, I predicted that at some point in 2012 the average web page would surpass 1 MB in  size. That point has arrived — a little earlier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do women in the U.S. have the best quality of live?</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/24/do-women-in-the-u-s-have-the-best-quality-of-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Australia gets top honors for overall wellbeing.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has recently released the Better Life Index and according to the index women in the United States have the best quality of life of any developed nation.
The index combines eleven different measures of wellbeing, including  health, education, income, and life satisfaction. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has college become too easy?</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/23/has-college-become-too-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Amount of time students study has dwindled.
Is college  too easy?  Survey data shows that over the last 50 years, the amount of time college students  actually study — read, write and otherwise prepare for class — has  dwindled from 24 hours a week to about 15.
Ashley Dixon, a sophomore at George Mason University, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Ive – Apple’s quest for simplicity</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/23/jonathan-ive-apples-quest-for-simplicity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Ive, the    London-born head of design for Apple says &#8220;design is a word that&#8217;s come to mean so much that it&#8217;s also a word that    has come to mean nothing. We don&#8217;t really talk about design, we talk about    developing ideas and making products.&#8221;

The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A visualization of airplane flight paths in the U.S.</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/23/a-visualization-of-airplane-flight-paths-in-the-u-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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How may airplanes fly above our heads everyday?
Aaron Koblin knows the answer: It can be more than 19,000 in the United  States. And thanks to his wizardry with FAA data, we can see how these  aircraft drift from city to city in this mesmerizing computer  visualization.
Air traffic is heavy in the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists restore sight to blind mice by regenerating optic nerve</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/22/scientists-restore-sight-to-blind-mice-by-regenerating-optic-nerve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Scientists restore vision to blind mice.
There are three blind men who have an inherited eye disorder that had destroyed the light-sensing cells of their retinas many years ago.  Now one of the blind men can walk around at night navigating by streetlight and headlights.  Another can read his own name.  And the third mean has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Private Is Your DNA?</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/21/how-private-is-your-dna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 19:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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How is my DNA NOT private?
Unlike the contents of your inbox, bank statement, or Facebook timeline, your DNA quite literally defines you. It&#8217;s strange, then, that in an age where sequencing the genome is becoming trivial, we don&#8217;t give a second thought about the privacy issues surrounding the chemicals that make us who we are.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nebula Award winners announced</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/20/nebula-award-winners-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 02:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Nebula Awards, especially to Jo Walton, who won for her magnificent novel, Among Others. Here they are&#8230;

* Novel Winner: Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
* Novella Winner: ”The Man Who Bridged the Mist,” Kij Johnson (Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2011)
* Novelette Winner: ”What We Found,” Geoff Ryman (The Magazine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stylish Sun Shade Is the Easiest Way To Harness Solar Power For Your Home</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/20/stylish-sun-shade-is-the-easiest-way-to-harness-solar-power-for-your-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 02:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Solar wins again.
If you like the idea of getting free energy from the sun, but don&#8217;t want to deal with the complications of installing a solar array on your roof, Umbrosa has created a lovely backyard sun shade that does double-duty—turning those rays into electricity.
As umbrellas go the Eclipse&#8217;s design is striking, but it isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How deadly charcoal is bought and sold in an African market</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/20/how-deadly-charcoal-is-bought-and-sold-in-an-african-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 08:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Charcoal for sale in an African market.
Xipamanine is a sprawling, labyrinthine marketplace in the heart of Maputo, Mozambique&#8217;s capital. On the street outside, tinny music blares and a bustling throng mills around. Inside, a series of winding corridors leads you through a maze of colorful booths that boast a wide variety of wares: shoes, stereo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House hires a new cybersecurity boss</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/19/white-house-hires-a-new-cybersecurity-boss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 18:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Will the internet be in better hands now?
Cybersecurity and the government have been a volitile combination lately, with proposed bills like SOPA, PIPA, and the still-up-in-the-air CISPA at the center of on-and-off internet outrage. So it&#8217;s kind of a big deal when the White House replaces its chief of cybersecurity affairs.
Last week, longtime chief Howard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inventing Our Next Great Scarcities</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/18/inventing-our-next-great-scarcities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 19:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Scarcity is defined as an economic condition that arises when people  have far greater wants than the available resources. Most often we think  about the limited supplies of natural resources, but it includes far  more than that.
As an example, in September 2010 China decided to block shipments of  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SpaceX set to launch first commercial rocket to ISS</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/18/spacex-set-to-launch-first-commercial-rocket-to-iss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, stands in front of a Falcon 9 rocket at SpaceX’s launch site.
A Falcon 9 rocket will lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida tomorrow night.  The craft will rendezvous in low-Earth orbit with the International Space Station (ISS) a few days after it has been launched.
This may sound pretty run-of-the-mill to most people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinterest joins the billionaires club with $100 million funding from Rakuten</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/18/pinterest-joins-the-billionaires-club-with-100-million-funding-from-rakuten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Pinterest deal values the company at  around $1.5 billion.
It seems that every hot  startup needs to reach a billion dollar valuation to be taken  seriously after the surprising purchase of Instagram by Facebook.  It only seems inevitable that the popular image pinboard site, Pinterest would skyrocket in value.
Japanese web retailer Rakuten announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Yahoo kill Flickr?</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/18/did-yahoo-kill-flickr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Flickr&#8217;s tag line used to read &#8220;almost certainly the  best online photo management and sharing application in the world.&#8221;
Flickr was something that had never been done before on the internet and it changed the shape of the internet as we know it today.  But along came Yahoo who bought Flickr and &#8220;murdered it and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How one man wiped out $90,000 in student loans in 7 months</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/05/18/how-one-man-wiped-out-90000-in-student-loans-in-7-months/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Economists are increasingly worried that young Americans will spend years buried under student debt.
Joe Mihalic was determined not to be one of the many young Americans that economists are increasingly worried about that will spend the coming years buried under student debt.
Faced with $90,000 in student debt from his days at Harvard Business School, Mihalic [...]]]></description>
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