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		<title>Advertising isn&#8217;t the only business model for websites</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A post by Ken Fisher at Ars Technica stirred up quite the hornet&#8217;s nest.  Brian Carper replied that, &#8220;Advertising is devastating to my well-being&#8221;.  Rob Sayre chimed in on the Mozilla Blog about, &#8220;Why Ad Blockers Work&#8221;.  All three of these were picked up by Hacker News and became some of the most commented threads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8220;Tier 1&#8243; support is rarely excellent and how to prevent it</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all been there&#8230;.something we have is broken, we can&#8217;t fix it on our own and we dread picking up the phone to call technical support because we know it won&#8217;t be a good experience.  Many of you think, &#8220;It&#8217;s tier 1 support, how hard can it be to learn this stuff?&#8221;  The truth of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Computing, &#8220;For Everyone, Not Everything&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing is a broad term that covers Internet based services that provide SaaS (Software as a service), PaaS (Platform as a service), and IaaS (Infrastructure as a service).  SaaS services are the most commonly used cloud solutions &#8212; web based e-mail is the prime example.  The most widely used PaaS offering is probably WordPress.org [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected use cases, what a Service Provider never sees coming&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Service Providers launch offerings with a particular use case or set of use cases in mind.  Flickr launched a photo/video sharing site, Joyent offers Accelerators to host websites, and Google/Yahoo/Hotmail/etc. offer free e-mail.  All of these services have other ways they could and probably are being used&#8230;.ways the product teams never expected.
Plenty of on-line backup [...]]]></description>
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