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		<title>Last.fm, HypeMachine, iTunes Ping &#8211; A Word On Music Discovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m wading through the legalese and trying out Apple&#8217;s all new iTunes 10 to see how their &#8220;Social Network for Music&#8221;, labelled iTunes Ping works. It&#8217;s been dubbed as an improvement to music discovery building upon Apple&#8217;s iTunes store. Dave Winer makes some valid points when he states that Ping is very likely not going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mjays.net/2010/09/02/last-fm-hypemachine-itunes-ping-a-word-on-music-discovery/</link>
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		<title>The Issue With Word-of-Mouth Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you use the internet at all, chances are you&#8217;ve stumbled upon the odd marketers, social media consultants or ninjas, however they may call themselves. Currently they&#8217;re a dime a dozen. It seems like the go-to profession when people don&#8217;t know what to do. And the holy grail of this profession is Word of Mouth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mjays.net/2010/08/31/the-issue-with-word-of-mouth-marketing/</link>
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		<title>The Consumer Doesn&#8217;t Care &#8211; And The Geeks Aren&#8217;t There</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#60;rant&#62; To most it is no secret that I spend a lot of time following the news, especially with regard to the web and energy. I&#8217;m a geek for that &#8211; and is my job. I was thrown on the topic about one and a half years ago, and I couldn&#8217;t resist it. That was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mjays.net/2010/08/25/the-consumer-doesnt-care-and-the-geeks-arent-there/</link>
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		<title>Vint Cerf and the Smart Grid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roll call: whom of you does not know who Vint Cerf is? If you do not, visit this Wikipedia-entry at once! (Hint: He&#8217;s the father of the Internet). Apparently he works for Google now. And he&#8217;s working in the realm of the Internet of Things. And he&#8217;s been giving a very comprehensive talk about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mjays.net/2010/07/21/vint-cerf-and-the-smart-grid/</link>
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		<title>Cognitive Cities Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since re:publica this year, we&#8217;ve been busy working on an idea I had way earlier this year. See, last year we had an amazing conference here in Berlin, called atoms&#38;bits which was wonderful especially since it happened at the crossroads of so many different fields of activity. We had a politics track alongside a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mjays.net/2010/06/09/cognitive-cities-conference/</link>
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		<title>Facebook and what? The Security vs Privacy Paradox&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a thought I&#8217;ve been walking around with for a while now: For most users, privacy and security are mutually exclusive. That is why most users willingly surrender their personal data to corporations like Facebook. That is why 99.9% of email goes unencrypted. That is why most users don&#8217;t bother to check their privacy settings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mjays.net/2010/05/12/facebook-and-what-the-security-vs-privacy-paradox/</link>
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		<title>The web of Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just stumbled upon this video which is a nice intro documentary on &#8220;Web3.0&#8243; &#8211; or, as others might call it &#8211; the semantic web. Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo. I have just a quick couple of thoughts on this, as certainly, I need to dig deeper into this: Additional meta-data must be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mjays.net/2010/05/11/the-web-of-data/</link>
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		<title>Identity and implicit data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Facebooks recent policy flaws in terms of privacy and the trust this company has gambled on, the question of identity and identity providers has reached new importance. Jeff Jarvis has nice piece on that, where he basically pinpoints the two biggest issues right now: how can I manage information that is available about myself, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mjays.net/2010/05/11/identity-and-implicit-data/</link>
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		<title>Personal Data and Beyond &#8211; And Why Facebook is endangering the future of data analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I’ve been reading this amazing piece in the New York Time’s Magazine called “The Data-Driven Life”. In the article, Gary Wolf, a contributing editor for Wired, dives into the world of self-analytics via data of different activities. There are people tracking their focus and mood-swings as they try to get off the caffeine, and there’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mjays.net/2010/05/04/personal-data-and-beyond-and-why-facebook-is-endangering-the-future-of-data-analysis/</link>
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		<title>This American Life &#8211; Inside Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This doesn&#8217;t need too many words. My favorite podcast, This American Life, which together with the team of NPR&#8217;s Planet Money did such a marvelous job at explaining the reasons and mechanisms of the subprime crisis in their show back in November 08 have aired a new amazing episode. Inside Job looks at the workings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mjays.net/2010/04/12/this-american-life-inside-job/</link>
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