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		<title>Quick Thoughts on Apple&#8217;s Crazy Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, what a week for Apple in the news.

First, the iPad launches.  The media embargo lifts.  Favorable reviews (would you really expect anything less from Walt Mossberg?) pour in, but some negative reviews surface as well.  Turns out, Apple sells 450,000 units in the first week.  Success?  Too early to tell, but those sales numbers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2010/04/09/quick-thoughts-on-apples-crazy-week/</link>
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		<title>Quick intro to Hadoop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After hearing words like &#8220;Big Data&#8221;, &#8220;Hadoop&#8221;, &#8220;MapReduce&#8221; and &#8220;NoSQL&#8221; more and more recently, many friends and colleagues have decided that they need more than just a vague idea about what this stuff is all about.  A couple of years ago when I started on this same discovery path, info on this topic area was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2010/04/05/quick-intro-to-hadoop/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Great Companies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, someone asked me: What makes a company great?
I thought about it for a minute, but couldn&#8217;t at the time come up with an answer that I was satisfied with.  Since that conversation, I have continued to think about this question and have arrived at a definition that I actually like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2010/03/22/thoughts-on-great-companies/</link>
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		<title>Great Online Advertising Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was very excited to stumble upon Mike On Ads, a fantastic blog authored by Mike Nolet who was at Right Media before co-founding AppNexus and is currently CTO.  I ended up spending a couple of hours today reading through many of his posts and learned a lot.
I really like how Mike dives into topics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2010/03/14/great-online-advertising-blog/</link>
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		<title>OnLive Launching June 17th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OnLive is one of the most exciting startup launches of 2010.  Why? Well, OnLive is trying to disrupt the video game industry.  Here&#8217;s a description of OnLive from their recent blog post announcing the launch:
OnLive fundamentally transforms the way users experience games and interact with each other, and in time, will transform the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2010/03/13/onlive-launching-june-17th/</link>
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		<title>Lifehack: Pandora on the PS3!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Okay that pic doesn&#8217;t look like much so let me explain.  Last night had some friends over and for living room music, instead of clumsily trying to connect my iPhone or streaming music from my laptop, I thought hmm let&#8217;s try Pandora on the PS3&#8217;s web browser.  Turns it out works flawlessly.  Quick tip though, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2010/03/13/lifehack-pandora-on-the-ps3/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Ads: &#8220;Likes and Interests&#8221;, Suggest Tool?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you that aren&#8217;t familiar, Facebook&#8217;s Ads platform allows advertisers to target ads towards users whose profiles include certain keywords.  Today, AllFacebook is reporting that facebook will now refer to this keyword targeting not as &#8220;keyword&#8221; targeting but as &#8220;likes and interests&#8221;.  While a subtle change, this, from a marketing perspective, may actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2010/03/08/facebook-ads-likes-interests-suggest-tool/</link>
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		<title>Great Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I firmly believe that a person will have at most one truly great idea in a year.  People who expose themselves to a wide range of information and experiences will probably be closer to 1 and people that don&#8217;t.. well, they&#8217;ll be closer to 0.  But how much are these &#8220;great&#8221; ideas really worth?
I argue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2010/03/08/great-ideas/</link>
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		<title>30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I turned 30 this week.  It feels weird.  My milestone birthday forced me to reflect on my life a bit, especially my 20s.  I am fortunate to hold within me countless great memories spent with friends and family.  I would be lying if I said I truly have no regrets, but one thing I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2010/03/02/30/</link>
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		<title>The BigMedia &#8211; Hulu &#8211; Boxee love connection&#8230;.breaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hulu, the hit free online video service backed by News Corp and NBC, has been a shining example of how big traditional media companies are finally starting to &#8220;get it&#8221;.  Hulu represents big media company&#8217;s recognition that fighting the illegal distribution of their video content by blackmailing ISP&#8217;s to curb bittorrent traffic and threatening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2009/02/18/the-bigmedia-hulu-boxee-love-connectionbreaks/</link>
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