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		<title>8 Funding Contests to Kick Start Your Big Idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared on Dyn.com, a world leader in managed DNS, powering the best brands on the web including Gowalla, Mashable, Twitter, Wikia and more. Follow @DynInc on Twitter. Taking a business from idea to reality involves a good deal of attrition, ingenuity, and compromise. But no matter how much these three factors align [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fabriziogiordano.com/2010/09/03/8-funding-contests-to-kick-start-your-big-idea/</link>
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		<title>Mayor Wars: A Battle For Foursquare Supremacy [VIDEO]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This November, Americans will head to the polls and choose from a multitude of candidates vying to become the next senator, governor or mayor. But one particular race won’t be determined by popular vote, nor will it guarantee a certain length of term. We’re talking about the mayorship of a venue on Foursquare. One of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fabriziogiordano.com/2010/08/27/mayor-wars-a-battle-for-foursquare-supremacy-video/</link>
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		<title>How to Plan Mobile Enterprise Development Using Forrester&#8217;s POST Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a new report from Forrester, mobile development has gone from being a separate silo to being mainstream. As more and more IT departments will be called upon to create mobile applications, Forrester recommends managers and developers adopt its POST (People, Objectives, Strategy, Technology) strategy. POST was actually created for marketing and business development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fabriziogiordano.com/2010/08/26/how-to-plan-mobile-enterprise-development-using-forresters-post-strategy/</link>
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		<title>MessageParty = Chat Room + Geolocation + iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MessageParty, an early-stage YCombinator-funded startup, takes the classic concept of a chat room and adds a geosocial twist by making any chat room location-aware. The app, which launched in the iTunes App store earlier this week, is very straightforward. Users can create public “parties” through the app that work just like group IM conversations. What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fabriziogiordano.com/2010/08/25/messageparty-chat-room-geolocation-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Balancing Inspiration and Individuality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   I love it when a good story is broken down so that even the simplest of minds can understand. I’m not the smartest, fastest or most creative person in the world, so I don’t like using a lot of big words or fancy jargon to try and impress you — but I’m learning every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fabriziogiordano.com/2010/08/22/balancing-inspiration-and-individuality/</link>
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		<title>Interactive JavaScript Mapping Library: Polymaps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Polymaps is a free JavaScript mapping library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers. It creates image and vector tiled maps using SVG. Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing, and other providers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fabriziogiordano.com/2010/08/21/interactive-javascript-mapping-library-polymaps/</link>
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		<title>Tuenti, The Spanish Facebook, Goes To Telefonica For $99 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in May we reported a rumor that Telefonica was in talks to acquire Tuenti, the &#8216;Spanish Facebook&#8217;, for €80 million” ($104 million), but Tuenti vehemently denied it at the time. Now, according to Spanish news site Expansion, the two sides have &#8220;virtually sealed the deal&#8221; whereby Telefonica will take 90% of the share capital [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fabriziogiordano.com/2010/08/04/tuenti-the-spanish-facebook-goes-to-telefonica-for-99-million/</link>
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		<title>Paul Graham’s Checklist, Would You Make The Cut? [Video]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With more than 200 deals since 2005, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham knows how to size up a young team of entrepreneurs. However, he didn’t get it right from day one. On Friday, we got a chance to talk to Graham after his morning panel with SV Angel’s Ron Conway. He discussed how his strategy has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fabriziogiordano.com/2010/08/01/paul-graham%e2%80%99s-checklist-would-you-make-the-cut-video/</link>
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		<title>Harrah’s and Playdom to bring World Series of Poker to Facebook, MySpace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Casino giant Harrah’s will bring its popular World Series of Poker (WSOP) to Facebook and MySpace in a new partnership announced with Playdom, which was just acquired this week for over $700 million by Disney. In the deal, Playdom will relaunch its Poker Palace game as the official WSOP game, starting first on Facebook and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fabriziogiordano.com/2010/08/01/harrah%e2%80%99s-and-playdom-to-bring-world-series-of-poker-to-facebook-myspace/</link>
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		<title>IGN Entertainment launches its own social network for gamers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world’s biggest video game fan site is going social. IGN Entertainment is announcing today that it has created MyIGN, a social network for game fans. By adding a social layer on top of a web site that is visited by 12.7 million gamers per month (the larger network of IGN game sites has more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fabriziogiordano.com/2010/07/29/ign-entertainment-launches-its-own-social-network-for-gamers/</link>
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