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		<title>Finally, A Revolution with its own Wristband &#8211; Skip the Shake&#8217;s Backstory!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not every day you get to be part of two revolutions; one, a startup aimed at cleaning up the business of software distribution and monetization, and another one aimed at slowing the spread of communicable diseases &#8211; but that’s exactly where I find myself today. 
My father always told me you do two things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opencandy.com/2009/11/15/finally-a-revolution-with-its-own-wristband-skip-the-shake/</link>
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		<title>How a Great App Recommendation &#8220;Engaged Me&#8221;, Thanks to TechCrunch &amp; Animoto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who know me know that I&#8217;m engulfed by two passions: great app recommendations (at OpenCandy) by day and my incredible girlfriend Gracie the rest of the time. A combination of the two serendipitously led to my engagement (to my aforementioned girlfriend-turned-fiancé) last night. And I owe it all (well the successful proposal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opencandy.com/2009/09/01/how-a-great-app-recommendation-engaged-me-thx-techcrunch-animoto/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Apps is Headed to the Libre Graphics Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of my first (and second) plane trip in 15 years, I’m headed to Montreal for the Libre Graphics Meeting (aka LGM). This time though, I’m traveling via car. LGM 2009 (May 6-9) is the fourth annual worldwide meeting of teams developing open source graphics applications. The developers of extremely popular applications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opencandy.com/2009/05/05/dr-apps-headed-to-libre-graphics-meeting-2009/</link>
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		<title>How Twitter Found Me My Dream Job At OpenCandy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Beginning
I must admit, I wasn’t looking for a job. In fact, I’ve got a small, successful technology consultancy of my own helping small businesses and home users plan, implement and maintain their computer systems and network infrastructure to keep them running smooth and malware free.
In my spare time, though, my passion was finding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opencandy.com/2009/03/02/how-twitter-found-me-my-dream-job-at-opencandy/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Candy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One year ago today, OpenCandy was born. To say much has changed in Candyland and the world around us the past year would be an understatement.
For further evidence, please reference this OpenCandy office accessory circa 2008:

2009 is indeed about Change (yes, we have even upgraded our office and accessories).
What has not changed, though, is our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opencandy.com/2009/02/19/happy-birthday-candy/</link>
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		<title>I Never Knew How Much I Needed You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the holidays right around the corner, I’m sure some of you are like me and that means spending way too much time stressing over the perfect gift for friends and family. (If you’re not, Bah Humbug to you, too.)
Here’s a tip: Get a gift that makes someone say,
“I never knew how much I needed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opencandy.com/2008/12/19/i-never-knew-how-much-i-needed-you/</link>
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		<title>OpenCandy Recommendations and Privacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for all the responses we received this week post our funding announcement and related stories.  We received a few privacy related questions in regards to how we make our software recommendations.  Here is a high level answer which we’ll add to a future FAQ.
1. Each developer in our network hand picks the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opencandy.com/2008/11/14/opencandy-recommendations-and-privacy/</link>
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		<title>Create More Value Than You Capture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim O&#8217;Reilly is one of several people that I&#8217;ve admired for a number of years. Several months ago Chester and I had the opportunity to make the trek to Sebastopol to meet with him.  Little did he know I was so excited about meeting him that I had to refrain from asking him to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opencandy.com/2008/11/12/create-more-value-than-you-capture/</link>
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		<title>How NOT to Recommend Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has Apple software (i.e. iTunes) on Windows has probably seen this Apple Malware, er Software Update screen suddenly appear at one point or another.

I seem to see it every week on the multiple PCs I use. And it really pisses me off.
First, what kind of &#8220;update&#8221; is this? I don&#8217;t even have either [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opencandy.com/2008/10/29/how-not-to-recommend-software/</link>
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		<title>First post: Startup Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re live! Check out our About page to learn more about why we exist and what we&#8217;re up to. Then come back and check out our first app recommendation. It was recommended to me by Adrian. It&#8217;s called Startup Manager. You know how you end up getting a ton of annoying applications that startup everytime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opencandy.com/2008/10/14/first-post-startup-manager/</link>
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