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		<title>Google Launches Its Apps Marketplace</title>
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While I should be studying for finals right now, I just had to write a quick post about the Google Apps Marketplace.  As you might be able to tell from my last post, I&#8217;m getting more interested in the ecosystems behind application marketplaces (mobile or otherwise).  I previously interned at salesforce.com working on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://napkintech.com/2010/03/10/google-launches-its-apps-marketplace/</link>
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		<title>The Mobile Application Market</title>
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I&#8217;ve been researching reports from a number of mobile analytics firms to better understand the different application marketplaces created by Apple, RIM, Google, Palm, etc&#8230;While it&#8217;s clear that Apple currently has the lead in a number of categories (total number of applications, monthly revenue, etc&#8230;) leadership will be shifting as this is a nascent market.
Notably, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://napkintech.com/2010/03/09/the-mobile-application-market/</link>
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		<title>Power of Social Technology at Stanford GSB</title>
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		<link>http://napkintech.com/2010/03/02/power-of-social-technology-at-stanford-gsb/</link>
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		<title>Mike Maples on Producing &#8220;Thunder Lizards&#8221;</title>
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		<link>http://napkintech.com/2010/02/21/mike-maples-on-producing-thunder-lizards/</link>
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		<title>David Heinemeier Hansson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I sat in ETL today at Stanford and picked up some nice bullet points on building a software company from David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37Signals.  I thought I&#8217;d jott them down here:

1. Don&#8217;t accept VC money.  I&#8217;ve heard this from a number of software/internet startup founders, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://napkintech.com/2010/01/20/david-heinemeier-hansson/</link>
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		<title>John Doerr on Leadership</title>
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		<link>http://napkintech.com/2009/12/09/john-doerr-on-leadership/</link>
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		<title>The internet as a tool to find and direct brainpower&#8230;</title>
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Another post about Zittrain.  I&#8217;m working on a project related to this area:
This success story—combining impressive numbers with a good cause—is an example of a new phenomenon: using the Internet not just to aggregate and access computing power, but also to find and direct brainpower. Invoking the current mania around cloud computing, where things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://napkintech.com/2009/12/08/151/</link>
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		<title>Jonathan Zittrain &#8211; Minds for Sale</title>
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Harvard Law Professor, Jonathan Zittrain, on ethical considerations of creating value through crowdsourcing/using mass participation: 

Companies, government, and other agencies can disguise farmed-out work as games or other mediums.  What happens when we spend hours a week on platforms like Mechanical Turk and we don&#8217;t know what the data is being used for? What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://napkintech.com/2009/11/30/142/</link>
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		<title>Should startups be built-to-last or built-to-flip?</title>
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Everyone at Topsy works around the clock.  Most people don’t come into the office until noon or one pm, but I see emails sent to our team alias as late (or as early) as four or five am.   From speaking with employees, everyone on our team believes in the emergence of real-time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://napkintech.com/2009/08/16/should-startups-be-built-to-last-or-built-to-flip/</link>
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		<title>Facebook acquires FriendFeed &#8211; What Happens to Topsy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that keeps me positive about Topsy's prospects is that the company has been in 3 years of R&#038;D to develop authority based pagerank.]]></description>
		<link>http://napkintech.com/2009/08/11/facebook-acquires-friendfeed-what-happens-to-topsy/</link>
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