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	<title>Ben Werdmuller von Elgg</title>
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		<title>Profile: a serialized novel for email, web, Kindle and ePub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from a new kind of project for me. Profile is a serial thriller about identity, the Internet and what happens when we trust companies to tell us what is and isn&#8217;t true. I&#8217;m going to treat the whole process &#8211; from writing through promotion &#8211; like a lean startup; more on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2012/02/03/profile-a-serialized-novel-for-email-web-kindle-and-epub/</link>
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		<title>Private, easy, affordable enterprise video management. Hi.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We spent a lot of time testing the upcoming latakoo iPhone app today. It&#8217;s neat: you record video footage using the app of your choice, then click into the latakoo app to send it. Optionally enter a description, tags, destination groups and anyone you want to send it directly to, and the app shrinks the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2012/02/01/private-easy-affordable-enterprise-video-management-hi/</link>
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		<title>How Europe can save the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a piece about ACTA for Imperica: When the French MEP Kader Arif stepped down last week from scrutinizing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, declaring that he &#8220;would not participate in this charade&#8221;, it was the culmination of eight years of political lobbying, back-room deals and undemocratic conniving that now threatens to undermine the entire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2012/01/30/how-europe-can-save-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Die, Hollywood, die!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Graham&#8217;s Y-Combinator request for startups that will kill Hollywood has opened up a can of exploding radioactive mega-worms &#8211; and this time, they&#8217;re angry. In the wake of the Internet industry&#8217;s fight against SOPA and PIPA, he posed the problem: The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2012/01/22/die-hollywood-die/</link>
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		<title>Grassroutes: how three students helped save the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many of you, I blacked out my site for the protests against SOPA and PIPA. These are bad laws that describe themselves as being anti-piracy but will hinder business, destroy jobs, undermine the working of the Internet, and &#8211; to add insult to injury &#8211; won&#8217;t stop piracy. Khan Academy has a great overview; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2012/01/18/grassroutes-how-three-students-helped-fight-sopa/</link>
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		<title>Identity is the operating system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a phone number: +1 (312) 488-9373. Feel free to call or text it. If I&#8217;m walking around, you&#8217;ll get me on my Samsung Galaxy S II. If I&#8217;m in transit (but not driving), you&#8217;ll probably get me on my iPad. If I&#8217;m at my desk, I&#8217;ll answer and take the whole call through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2012/01/15/identity-is-the-operating-system/</link>
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		<title>SOPA and PIPA: how lawmakers are out to take my job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I joined both the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union today. I also give regularly to the Open Rights Group in the UK. I urge you to do the same. SOPA and PIPA &#8211; the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act respectively (PDF links) &#8211; are legislative acts that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2012/01/12/sopa-and-pipa-how-lawmakers-are-out-to-take-my-job/</link>
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		<title>Occupy Facebook: innovation in the era of social protest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired reports that a group involved in the Occupy movement is working on its own decentralized social networking platform: “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a team of activist-geeks redesigning social networking for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/12/29/occupy-facebook-innovation-in-the-era-of-social-protest/</link>
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		<title>The Facebook Timeline in the New York Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m quoted in the New York Times article about the global release of the Facebook Timeline: “We’ve all been dropping status updates and photos into a void,” said Ben Werdmuller, the chief technology officer at Latakoo, a video service. “We knew we were sharing this much, of course, but it’s weird to realize they’ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/12/15/the-facebook-timeline-in-the-new-york-times/</link>
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		<title>Otherwise Occupied: it&#8217;s hard to blog about app stores when police are beating people down the street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[November was a hard blogging month for me. I managed two posts: a single embedded TEDx talk (albeit one by Kaliya, who I respect greatly), and one about Thanksgiving. I just didn&#8217;t have it in me. You see, I don&#8217;t love tech on its own; I love what it can do for people. More specifically, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/11/30/otherwise-occupied-its-hard-to-blog-about-app-stores-when-police-are-beating-people-down-the-street/</link>
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		<title>Giving thanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, I had my first ever American Thanksgiving with my whole nuclear family. We&#8217;ve celebrated it before in the States, but never quite managed to get the whole family round the table &#8211; and in doing so, I realized what a positive holiday it is. Being thankful for the people, things and contexts in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/11/27/giving-thanks/</link>
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		<title>Identity: the contexts of the future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This TEDx talk by Kaliya is worth watching: Related entries Profile: a serialized novel for email, web, Kindle and ePub (0) Identity is the operating system (0) The Facebook Timeline in the New York Times (0)]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/11/26/identity-the-contexts-of-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Send video fast &#8211; for free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a limited time, we&#8217;re giving away free accounts over at latakoo.com. Send video super-fast over any Internet connection, manage it privately in the cloud, and share with anyone. latakoo lets you send HD video in a fraction of the time by compressing it to an H.264 MP4 file. (You&#8217;ll still see the compression benefit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/10/31/send-video-fast-free/</link>
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		<title>Identity, contact management and federated social networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Doc Searls reflected that everything being worked on at the Internet Identity Workshop is meaningful to CRM: It just occurred to me that everything being worked on at IIW is meaningful to CRM. I had been thinking that only the VRM stuff was meaningful, but I realize now that all the IIW stuff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/10/24/identity-crm-federated-social-networks/</link>
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		<title>Identity progressives and identity conservatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[4chan&#8216;s moot, aka Chris Poole, stood up at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday and painted a more complex picture of identity: &#8220;The portrait of identity online is often painted in black and white,&#8221; Poole said. &#8220;Who you are online is who you are offline.&#8221; [...] But human identity doesn&#8217;t work like that online or offline. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/10/18/identity-progressives-identity-conservatives/</link>
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		<title>The open web is dead. Get over it and do something.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I joined the Post-PC era by upgrading my iPad to iOS 5. Yes, the upgrade process wiped all of my applications and data, but once I&#8217;d put everything back together again, the result was a faster, more streamlined device that works much better than it did with iOS 4. I use my iPad for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/10/15/open-web-dead-get-over-it/</link>
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		<title>People in tech: some women who have influenced me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Ada Lovelace Day today; an opportunity to &#8220;share your story about a woman — whether an engineer, a scientist, a technologist or mathematician — who has inspired you to become who you are today.&#8221; There are so many technologists who I admire that happen to be women. But there&#8217;s only one person this post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/10/07/people-in-tech-ada-lovelace/</link>
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		<title>Steve Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs sold the idea that the computer, formerly just a business machine, is a tool for artists and dreamers. In doing so, he captured the imagination of the world. He didn&#8217;t personally invent the computer, or (as ReadWriteWeb points out) anything; but he understood that if computers were to become integral to our lives, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/10/05/steve-jobs/</link>
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		<title>Sending video is hard. latakoo will change that.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really excited about this one. Think about how much of a pain it is to upload video. Stop. Now think about dramatically decreasing the upload time. Zoom in. Now think about only having to upload once, but share it with whomever, or wherever, you need. The new latakoo is coming soon. It starts at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/10/04/sending-video-hard-latakoo-change/</link>
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		<title>Is it time to revive the Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In some ways, the web industry seems to have lost its way. From empowering users and smashing incumbent gatekeepers, the emphasis is now on how to raise the next round of funding and convert active users into their maximum possible value.. My piece about Facebook, contextual identity and radical transparency continues to get a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/blog/2011/09/25/bill-of-rights-social-web/</link>
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