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		<title><![CDATA[Should Government Get Involved in Protecting Businesses?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   I went down to city hall yesterday to participate in a hearing on net neutrality. I realize the NYC city council has no oversight on this issue but the lobbyists were coming out in force so I figured I might as well show up too....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:07:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Power of Instant Approval]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F173531-the-power-of-instant-approval%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   Back in the early days of web video, it wasn't clear who would win the competition for video upload to the web. There was YouTube, Vimeo, and the big dog was Google Video GOOG. I tried all of them. YouTube was by far and away...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:52:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In Praise of 'Slow' Capital]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F170122-in-praise-of-slow-capital%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   Last Friday my partner Brad attended a company offsite for our portfolio company Meetup.com. On monday of this week during our regular weekly meeting, he gave our firm all five of us a report on the day which he said was excellent. One thing that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:35:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Has Blog Reading Gone Mainstream?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F168785-has-blog-reading-gone-mainstream%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   I was reading Technorati's State Of The Blogosphere report yesterday. It has a lot of data on bloggers but not so much on readers. And I'm more curious about readers than bloggers. I believe that blog reading has gone completely mainstream based largely on discussions...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:53:04 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/internet.html"><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Decides When to Exit?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F162326-who-decides-when-to-exit%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   There's a post on the 37 Signals blog by Jason Fried saying that the Mint sale to Intuit INTU was a bad move for a host of reasons and suggesting that the VCs behind Mint had forced it. It reminds me of similar discussions about...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:40:25 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/seeking+alpha.html"><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha]]></category>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/fred+wilson.html"><![CDATA[Fred Wilson]]></category>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/intuit+inc..html"><![CDATA[Intuit Inc.]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are Musicians Shifting from MySpace to Tumblr]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F156752-are-musicians-shifting-from-myspace-to-tumblr%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:    MySpace has always been the social media destination for musicians and their fans. The rumored acquisition of iLike (new mgmt's first purchase), suggests that music and entertainment will be even more of a focus for MySpace going forward as it looks to differentiate itself...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:48:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/fred+wilson.html"><![CDATA[Fred Wilson]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[More Thoughts on Doubling Down]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F154980-more-thoughts-on-doubling-down%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   I wrote a post recently called "Double Down, But Only On The Right Hand" that was about Yahoo!'s YHOO decision to bail on search and Microsoft's MSFT decision to double down on it. It was also about new forms of search, like real time search,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:56:52 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/seeking+alpha.html"><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha]]></category>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/fred+wilson.html"><![CDATA[Fred Wilson]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Teenage Media Consumption: Using the Off-Season to Catch Up on TV]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F149575-teenage-media-consumption-using-the-off-season-to-catch-up-on-tv%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:    Jason Kinkaid has an interesting post on Techcrunch today about the summer TV doldrums and the opportunity this time of year presents for catching up on earlier seasons of shows you like.   I like to watch what my kids do, particularly as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:54:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/fred+wilson.html"><![CDATA[Fred Wilson]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is the Deal Between Apple and AT&T Anti-Competitive?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F147496-is-the-deal-between-apple-and-at-t-anti-competitive%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   Yes, of course it is. And the Justice Department should be looking into these exclusive agreements. But the administration should go much farther than a Justice Department review. Mobile phone companies should be required by law to sell an unlocked version of their phones at...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:23:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/apple+inc..html"><![CDATA[Apple Inc.]]></category>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/at%2526t+corp..html"><![CDATA[AT&T Corp.]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Freeconomics: Should Everything Be Free on the Internet?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F146867-freeconomics-should-everything-be-free-on-the-internet%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   This week we saw the release of Chris Anderson's book Free and reviews from the New Yorker Malcolm Gladwell and the Financial Times. I'd like to talk a bit about the firestorm that freeconomics (fed by Chris' book) has unleashed but first we need to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:24:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/time+warner+cable+inc..html"><![CDATA[Time Warner Cable Inc.]]></category>
		<category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">NWS</category>
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		<title><![CDATA[My Week with Bing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F144568-my-week-with-bing%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   Switching to Bing MSFT for a week had no meaningful impact on my internet experience, either positively or negatively. I was able to find most of what I was looking for with Bing and I enjoyed the experience. That said, I found no reason to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:52:29 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/internet.html"><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/fred+wilson.html"><![CDATA[Fred Wilson]]></category>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/google+inc..html"><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Giving Bing a Chance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F143056-giving-bing-a-chance%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   I'm not optimistic that Microsoft's MSFT new Bing search service will be able to displace Google GOOG as the king of search, but I am going to give it a chance. I think the biggest challenge is not convincing users that it is better (or...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:58:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why You Won't Be Seeing the Palm Pre on Me]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F141964-why-you-won-t-be-seeing-the-palm-pre-on-me%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   I was emailing with Ken Berger over the weekend. He went to the Palm Pre PALM launch event on Friday (here's Ken's take on the phone) and was wondering why I had not mentioned it yet on this blog. I am quite excited by the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:50:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[comScore's Media Metrix 360: A Very Big Deal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F140680-comscore-s-media-metrix-360-a-very-big-deal%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   I started working with the comScore SCOR team in 1999 when my prior firm, Flatiron Partners, provided first round capital to the founders. I served on the board for nine years and dropped off last summer with a lot of mixed emotions. I've always been...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:14:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Isn't Paypal More Successful?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F139593-why-isn-t-paypal-more-successful%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   I just bought a replacement part at an online store I've never shopped in before. I was dreading the checkout process since I have not committed my various credit cards to memory. But thankfully this store offered checkout with Paypal. I clicked on it, entered...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 05:27:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/fred+wilson.html"><![CDATA[Fred Wilson]]></category>
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		<category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">EBAY</category>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Internet as an Operating System and Maximizing User 'Default' Behavior]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F139072-the-internet-as-an-operating-system-and-maximizing-user-default-behavior%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   When you want to search for something on the Internet, most people go to Google GOOG  without even thinking about it.    When I want to buy something on the Internet, my default behavior is to go to Amazon AMZN and search...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 10:51:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/amazon.com+inc..html"><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc.]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[WSJ's Social Media Rules for Journalists]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F137691-wsj-s-social-media-rules-for-journalists%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   The WSJ gave its journalists some rules about conduct in social media this week according to Editor and Publisher. Most of them are good common sense rules for everyone using social media. But there are several that I think are wrong and should be rethought....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 06:33:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Singing the American Express Blues]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F134988-singing-the-american-express-blues%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a friend who is a very successful entrepreneur. He told me he'd been having some problems recently with American Express AXP. They'd been denying charges and giving him all sorts of grief. Our lunch turned into...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 02:22:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/american+express+co..html"><![CDATA[American Express Co.]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Power of Passed Links, Continued]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F131828-the-power-of-passed-links-continued%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   Ben Straley left the comment that inspired my initial post on this topic. And last night, he left another comment that is a blog post in its own right. So here it is in its entirety. I hope you find it as useful as I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:15:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Facebook: When You're a Public Company Without Being Public]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson submits:   This happened a bit with Google early this decade and it was certainly part of their decision to go public reluctantly. Now it is happening to Facebook, and has been happening for some time. There has been an active secondary market in employee shares in...]]></description>
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