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		<title>Android vs iPhone &#8211; impressions after switching to&#160;Android</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I switched from the iPhone to a phone powered by Google&#8217;s Android operating system: The HTC Legend. People have been asking how they compare so I thought I&#8217;d share some notes. iPhone advantages over Android: Integration with the desktop User experience Default apps Android advantages over iPhone: Integration with the cloud [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geirfreysson.com/2010/08/android-vs-iphone-impressions-after-switching-to-android/</link>
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		<title>Time left to complete page: Not&#160;much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a love/hate relationship with the countdown displayed at the bottom of a user&#8217;s screen when purchasing tickets from Ticketmaster. On one hand it&#8217;s useful to know exactly when the page expires and I can&#8217;t purchase tickets anymore, and on the other hand it raises my blood pressure. I wonder whether Rupert Murdoch should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geirfreysson.com/2010/07/time-left-to-complete-page-not-much/</link>
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		<title>Salesforce, Facebook and&#160;Amazon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce's Chatter reminds me of an IBM commercial where an executive with magical powers can see into the future. When his colleagues excitedly ask him what he sees, he replies dreamily: "Everything is integrated".]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geirfreysson.com/2010/02/salesforce-facebook-and-amazon/</link>
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		<title>Using Google as their address bar, mainstream users confuse ReadWriteWeb with&#160;Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The web commentary blog ReadWriteWeb wrote a blog post about how &#8220;Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login&#8221; which catapulted them to a top ranking for a Google search for &#8220;facebook login&#8221;, as seen below. Hilarity ensued. Users started arriving at the ReadWriteWeb blog and commenting on it in their hundreds, complaining about &#8220;Facebook&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geirfreysson.com/2010/02/using-google-as-their-address-bar-mainstream-users-confuse-readwriteweb-with-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Merlot, main courses, 37signals and web app&#160;pricing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m at a restaurant and say: &#8220;We&#8217;ll have a bottle of your Italian Merlot, please,&#8221; I actually mean: &#8220;Give me a bottle of your second cheapest wine, please.&#8221; Many months ago at Pizza Express I fell into a well laid trap and assumed the second cheapest bottle of wine would be the second one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geirfreysson.com/2010/02/merlot-main-courses-37signals-and-web-app-pricing/</link>
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		<title>Dogma vs. data and the future of&#160;Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday London&#8217;s main daily newspaper, The Evening Standard, reduced its price from 50p to zero. Libby Purves, who hosts Radio 4&#8242;s excellent Midweek, used the opportunity to weigh in on the Free debate in yesterday&#8217;s Times: Content is not cost free. Writing is work. Musicianship involves cost and labour, art is not innately free, nor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geirfreysson.com/2009/10/to-free-or-not-to-free-dogma-vs-data/</link>
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		<title>Wajapi connects with&#160;Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I can announce that Wajapi has become a Facebook application. This means you can: Log on to Wajapi with your Facebook details by clicking one button Sign up for Wajapi by clicking one button Connect your current Wajapi account to your Facebook account Automatically share Wajapi books with your Facebook friends Below is a screenshot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geirfreysson.com/2009/10/wajapi-connects-with-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Pricing models for online newspapers&#160;revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Way back in January 2006 I blogged about the crazy model the Independent was using to charge for online content. At the time, for someone who wanted to follow, for example, Simon Carr&#8217;s columns online, there were three options: Subscribe to the column online for a year for £50, subscribe for a month for £10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geirfreysson.com/2009/09/pricing-models-for-online-newspapers-revisited/</link>
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		<title>The mystery regarding the Skype&#160;deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NY Times is running a piece called The Cloud Hanging Over Skype on the recent $2 billion aquisition: Why were the winning bidders willing to pay so a high price for a company whose very existence could be threatened by this lawsuit? One possibility is that they have nerves of steel. The other is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geirfreysson.com/2009/09/the-mystery-regarding-the-skype-deal/</link>
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		<title>Banner art from&#160;IndieClick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our products at Transmit is Smelltu (an english version is on its way), a web-app that measures banner pageviews, clicks and ROI. According to Doubleclick, the average clickthrough rate (CTR) on their network is ca. 0.1%. Our findings are similar although the CTR we measure can vary greatly according to size and placement. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geirfreysson.com/2009/09/banner-art-indieclick-and-hype-machine/</link>
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