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		<title>How Technology Is Affecting Interpersonal Relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This entry is in response to/ inspired by Nate Rigg&#8217;s post: On Relationship Layers, Time and Facebook In days gone by, after meeting someone new, you&#8217;d probably have to wait to chat with them again until the next time you saw one another face to face or over the phone. Getting to know someone was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://go.sparkfire.net/2011/04/how-technology-is-affecting-interpersonal-relationships/</link>
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		<title>Improving Your Local Startup Ecosystem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[worth a share:

    Our startup ecosystem continues to grow and evolve. Each and every one of you can help in this process. How? Consider the following:

        Attend events – Remember, these are organized for your benefit. Even though it sometime seems like a pain at the end of a long day, do your best to attend some of these startup events.]]></description>
		<link>http://go.sparkfire.net/2011/03/improving-your-local-startup-ecosystem/</link>
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		<title>Tech &amp; Creativity in Tampa Bay: Problems and Solutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Bishop wrote a great post awhile back called Beyond Barcamp Tampa Bay which inspired me to finally get some of my thoughts down on paper (or page, as the case may be). Since poking my head into Tampa’s tech scene, I’ve talked to a lot of people who share some of my own frustration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://go.sparkfire.net/2011/01/tech-creativity-in-tampa-bay-problems-and-solutions/</link>
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		<title>Neer and the Geo-Fence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was hanging out at one of my very favorite websites this morning (feedmyapp.com, which is literally a massive list of applications, mostly brand new) when I became enchanted by Neer. Who they are in their own words: &#8220;Neer is an app, currently in beta for android, that lets users automatically and selectively share their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://go.sparkfire.net/2010/10/neer-and-the-geo-fence/</link>
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		<title>4sqDay Panel at SXSWi!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again! In short, thousands of panel ideas were submitted to South by Southwest and now they take the public&#8217;s votes into consideration as they determine the programming for the 2011 event! (More info on how that works&#8230;) Walter Elly of MicroArts thought a SXSW panel about Foursquare Day and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://go.sparkfire.net/2010/08/4sqday-panel-at-sxswi/</link>
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		<title>SXSWi&#8230; A Branding and Social Media Conference?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a lot of conversations about the content of and possible improvement of SXSW, specifically the Interactive portion (and really, tech conferences in general)&#8230; How SXSWi describe themselves: &#8220;brightest minds in emerging technology&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;the best new digital works, video games and innovative ideas the international community has to offer.&#8221; Quote from the SXSW site: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://go.sparkfire.net/2010/08/sxswi-branding-social-media-conference/</link>
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		<title>How to Make Oversized Conference Shirts Wearable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Love this! I really need to break out my sewing machine..]]></description>
		<link>http://go.sparkfire.net/2010/06/conference-shirts-wearable/</link>
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		<title>Easily Export Data from any CakePHP model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey there! Thanks for visiting. I&#8217;m leaving this content intact, but I&#8217;m blogging at http://conjurecode.com now. Hope to see you there. I recently needed the ability to export data from my application in CSV format in my CakePHP application. It didn&#8217;t need to be anything fancy, mostly just a dump from a given model, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://go.sparkfire.net/2010/06/easily-export-data-from-any-cakephp-model/</link>
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		<title>Try out Ubuntu Unity with quick install</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canonical recently unveiled a new version of Ubuntu, dubbed Unity (Ubuntu Light), built specifically with netbooks in mind, featuring super short boot times, and a whole slew of interface enhancements. It is still incomplete, but early versions of it are available to OEMs and to adventurous tinkerers.

<img src="http://go.sparkfire.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/unity6.jpg" alt="Ubuntu Unity desktop" />]]></description>
		<link>http://go.sparkfire.net/2010/05/try-out-ubuntu-unity-with-quick-install/</link>
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		<title>Foursquare Day quickly comes into focus.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Foursquare Day event is catching on in every corner of the globe. In just a few short weeks, fans and new initiates of Foursquare and social media at large have self organized to plan and launch the first ever Foursquare Day. We created a website to help aggregate information about the many Swarm Parties [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://go.sparkfire.net/2010/04/foursquare-day-quickly-comes-into-focus/</link>
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