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	<title>Ryan Merket's Blog</title>
	
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		<title>Are You Listening?</title>
		<link>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2010/02/27/are-you-listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Merket</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Next time you are talking to someone, take notice to how long they wait before answering you. If the person across from you answers immediately, chances are they were putting together their response while you were still talking &#8212; hence, they were not listening to you. If they take a few seconds and respond to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Twitter Bot</title>
		<link>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2010/01/22/building-a-twitter-bot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Merket</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Jason Thorton. To the people who know Jason, he is a successful entrepreneur in San Francisco who tweets 4-5 times a day. But Jason has a secret, he&#8217;s not really a human, he&#8217;s the product of my simple algorithm in PHP.
Jason tweets A LOT about the word &#8220;love&#8221; - that&#8217;s because Jason actually steals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Mobile - did you know?</title>
		<link>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2009/04/19/facebook-mobile-did-you-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Merket</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know Facebook Mobile could do this?]]></description>
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		<title>Aviary.com - The Future of the Web?</title>
		<link>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2008/12/16/aviary-the-future-of-the-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Merket</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Aviary.com is a set of image editing tools created in Flash. Launched to the public yesterday and hailed as &#8220;the future of SaaS.&#8221;  I tried pulling up Phoenix, their Photoshop-like tool yesterday but was denied due to high traffic.
What&#8217;s interesting is the business model. Out of the gate Aviary is limited to using Phoenix (Photoshop), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Announces 25 fbFund Winners!</title>
		<link>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2008/10/15/facebook-announces-25-fbfund-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Merket</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Facebook announced the 25 fbFund winning companies. The fbFund is a $10M seed fund created by Facebook, Accel Partners, and Founders Fund to help jump start talented developers and entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses on the Facebook platform.
Each of the following companies received a $25,000 for their first round of financing. In November, Facebook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROOV launches Facebook Connect</title>
		<link>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2008/10/13/roov-launches-facebook-connect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Merket</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROOV, the Christian social network has launched Facebook Connect! 

From the ROOV e-Newsletter:
We told you it was coming and now it’s here! ROOV.com has officially launched its integration with Facebook.com. Here’s what that means…

You don’t need another login for ROOV…just use your Facebook login.
            [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySpace Music Streamed +1 Billion Songs in a Few Days?</title>
		<link>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2008/10/07/myspace-music-streamed-1-billion-songs-in-a-few-days/</link>
		<comments>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2008/10/07/myspace-music-streamed-1-billion-songs-in-a-few-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Merket</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of talk on the internet about MySpace streaming over a billion songs in the first few days of its&#8217; service launch. But what MySpace is not telling you is that MySpace Music is nothing more than a new flash player on the already existing band profiles (which rank VERY high in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XOHM WiMAX from Sprint is in Baltimore and it’s FAST!</title>
		<link>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2008/10/01/xohm-wimax-from-sprint-is-in-baltimore-and-its-fast/</link>
		<comments>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2008/10/01/xohm-wimax-from-sprint-is-in-baltimore-and-its-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Merket</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Engadget sent a couple reporters to Baltimore to test our Sprint&#8217;s new XOHM WiMAX wireless internet. They were able to get 3.05Mbps down and 2.4Mbps up AND connectivity in their car!
Could this be the turning point for the battered and bruised Sprint? At the time of this posting their stock is up 8% for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myspace Music - First Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2008/09/25/myspace-music-first-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Merket</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have my normal routine of finding a playlist, or stream to listen to for the day, and last night Myspace Music launched so I thought I would give it a try. I opened music.myspace.com, and decided to give it a try&#8230;
If you don&#8217;t know anything about Myspace Music, then let me give you the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google’s new G1 has no 3.5mm headphone jack</title>
		<link>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2008/09/23/googles-new-g1-has-no-35mm-headphone-jack/</link>
		<comments>http://ryanmerket.com/blog/2008/09/23/googles-new-g1-has-no-35mm-headphone-jack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was REALLY close to buying one of the new Google G1 phones.  I&#8217;ve read about 5 reviews, and watched a few videos, and had just about made up my mind to go ahead and buy one next month when I saw this article from Engadget.
HTC (the manufacturer of the phone) &#8212; HOW CAN YOU [...]]]></description>
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