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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>CEO and venture firms win big in 3PAR bidding</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/09/02/ceo-and-venture-firms-win-big-in-3par-bidding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is the happiest man in Silicon Valley today? It has to be David Scott, chief executive of 3PAR. If he&#8217;s not the happiest, then he&#8217;s at least the guy who has made the most money in the past month thanks to the over-the-top bidding war for his previously obscure company.
According to a proxy filing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Calling Facebook Switchboard, Press 2 For Law Enforcement</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/08/24/when-calling-facebook-switchboard-press-2-for-law-enforcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an odd thing. Today, a former colleague sent me an email saying they had just called the Facebook switchboard. When the automated attendant came on, the second option was for &#8220;law enforcement.&#8221;
I agreed that seemed unusual, so I called myself (650-543-4800). Sure enough, &#8220;law enforcement&#8221; is the second option. But the full message was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weirdness of Facebook&#8217;s Places announcement</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/08/20/the-weirdness-of-facebooks-places-announcement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/08/20/the-weirdness-of-facebooks-places-announcement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[mark zuckerberg]]></category>

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In the past year or so, I&#8217;ve grown increasingly impressed with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Though he&#8217;s still young for a guy running the most important company on the Web, I felt he was growing into the CEO role. This was a reflection of his strategic insights, the way he&#8217;s expanded Facebook&#8217;s user base past 500 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Joe Nocera is wrong about why HP ditched Mark Hurd</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/08/16/why-joe-nocera-is-wrong-about-why-hp-ditched-mark-hurd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Nocera is one of the business columnists I respect most. So it&#8217;s rare that I find myself in strong disagreement with his take on an issue. But his blistering column about why he thinks Hewlett-Packard really got rid of CEO Mark Hurd is one of those instances. And since things in the New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Google fails at failing</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/08/06/how-google-fails-at-failing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since the announcement that it was killing Google Wave, Google has turned on the spin by proclaiming how they &#8220;celebrate our failures.&#8221; There is a lot to admire about Google, and one of those things is its ability to experiment and, as CEO Eric Schmidt said, &#8220;try things.&#8221; It&#8217;s not just hard for many organizations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BitTorrent and the case against cloud computing</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/08/02/bittorrent-and-the-case-against-cloud-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Cloud computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[file sharing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With everyone talking breathlessly about cloud computing, it seems I rarely hear this mega-trend being called into question. The advantages of moving your computing onto the Internet seem clear: Lower costs, more efficient management of resources. What&#8217;s not to like?
According to BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker, the answer is: Plenty.
I had a fascinating conversation with Klinker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heather Gold and the art of public conversation</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/07/23/heather-gold-and-the-art-of-public-conversation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/07/23/heather-gold-and-the-art-of-public-conversation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few years, as I&#8217;ve moved into a more public role at the Mercury News as a business and technology columnist, I&#8217;ve found myself being called on to do more and more public speaking. At the same time, I&#8217;ve also been involved in organizing various digital journalism conferences and bar camp-type conferences.
One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So long, Reel Video</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/07/21/so-long-reel-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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Upon returning from vacation this week, I saw that Reel Video in Berkeley had indeed closed. I had written about its problems before leaving. Founder Stuart Skorman was trying to pull together some investors to buy it back from the corporation, but couldn&#8217;t get a group together in time.
Sorry to see it go, but thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peeking into the future of news at MIT this week</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/06/16/peeking-into-the-future-of-news-at-mit-this-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/06/16/peeking-into-the-future-of-news-at-mit-this-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting today, I&#8217;ll be at MIT attending the Future of News and Civic Media conference sponsored by the Knight Foundation. You can follow tweets from the conference at #fncm.
The conference brings together past winners of the foundations&#8217; News Challenge program (of which I was one) along with some other folks working at the edge of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bad night for Silicon Valley&#8217;s &#8220;other&#8221; tech candidates</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/06/09/a-bad-night-for-silicon-valleys-other-tech-candidates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/06/09/a-bad-night-for-silicon-valleys-other-tech-candidates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[chris kelly]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[josh becker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[kamala harris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During much of the election, the tech world&#8217;s attention has focused on former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in their respective gubernatorial and senate races. Both had big war chests, and both won big. Now we&#8217;ll see if they can do the same in the general election.
But there were [...]]]></description>
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