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	<link>http://breasy.com/blog</link>
	<description>Musings on design and technology</description>
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		<title>New Greasemonkey goodness (Insert VideoSurf summaries on Google, Yahoo! and Youtube search)</title>
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I just published my first post on the VideoSurf blog.  It&#8217;s about a Greasemonkey script that I wrote to insert our VideoSurf visual summaries into Google, Yahoo! and Youtube search results pages.  I think the script is pretty sweet and quite useful.  
If you&#8217;re interested, there are screenshots and installation instructions on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breasy.com/blog/2008/11/11/new-greasemonkey-goodness-insert-videosurf-summaries-on-google-yahoo-and-youtube-search/</link>
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		<title>Changes afoot.  Back in USA.  Joined VideoSurf.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a year and a half of hard work and a wonderfully flexible lifestyle that included a 4 month stint in Buenos Aires, I&#8217;ve returned to the USA and decided to once again take on full time work.  
I&#8217;ve joined an amazing startup in San Mateo called VideoSurf.  They&#8217;re doing some really innovative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breasy.com/blog/2008/09/05/changes-afoot-back-in-usa-joined-videosurf/</link>
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		<title>Is Facebook stirring up trouble?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently decided to tidy up her Facebook profile information.  She got to the relationships section and thought to herself, &#8220;you know what?  this is nobody&#8217;s business.  I don&#8217;t want to broadcast this to everyone.&#8221; She saw a message there that said &#8220;Leave status option blank to hide from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breasy.com/blog/2008/07/08/is-facebook-stirring-up-trouble/</link>
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		<title>What I write about</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A post on Knowing and Doing inspired me to check out Wordle.  Wordle generates a good looking jumble of words for any text you paste in.  The more often a word is used, the larger it appears.  I did a &#8217;select all&#8217; on my blog&#8217;s front page and threw it in there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breasy.com/blog/2008/06/18/what-i-write-about/</link>
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		<title>I outsourced myself to Argentina (late announcement)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been 4 months since I last decided to write here at Udi&#8217;s Spot.  Hard to believe.   
The main reason I&#8217;ve dropped off the blogging planet is that a few months ago I moved down to Buenos Aires.  You could say that I outsourced myself.  

A curious thing happens when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breasy.com/blog/2008/04/01/outsourced-argentina/</link>
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		<title>Of course you shouldn&#8217;t be evil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Call me crazy, but perhaps Google&#8217;s not-so-unofficial corporate motto, &#8220;don&#8217;t be evil&#8220;, isn&#8217;t such a great thing to aspire to.  I sincerely believe in their good intentions, but maybe this was the wrong way to state them.    
I&#8217;m reminded of this classic Chris Rock bit:

You know the worst thing about n***as? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breasy.com/blog/2007/12/27/of-course-you-shouldnt-be-evil/</link>
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		<title>Deliberate Inefficiencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Danah Boyd has written an awesome post about how inefficiency and unreliability can actually be beneficial in certain social situations.  Think about all of the interesting interactions that happen while people are waiting for drinks at a crowded bar.  
She also asked if anyone could think of any examples of deliberate inefficiencies built [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breasy.com/blog/2007/12/15/deliberate-inefficiencies/</link>
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		<title>Quick, Cheap Usability Testing with Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently my father shared an interesting story from Slashdot with me about a man that pays other people to argue with him on Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk.  The Mechanical Turk is a place where you can offer up money in exchange for the performance of a task.  Typically it&#8217;s used to accomplish things that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breasy.com/blog/2007/12/12/quick-cheap-usability-testing-with-amazons-mechanical-turk/</link>
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		<title>Are you stuck in the short tail?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joshua Porter asks the question, &#8220;Did the Long Tail beget social design?&#8221;  I think the answer is absolutely yes.  
Here&#8217;s what Joshua had to say

Netflix rents most of its movies from the catalog of past movies, not from the current list of blockbusters. Same with Amazon and books, iTunes and music. Christopher Anderson [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breasy.com/blog/2007/12/04/the-long-tail-did-indeed-beget-social-design/</link>
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		<title>Facebook is slow, but there&#8217;s an easy fix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like the Facebook engineers add another javascript and css file to their pages with every new feature.  As of today, viewing the Facebook homepage loads 36 javascript files from Facebook and 4 more from advertisers.  In addition to these 40 files, there are 12 css files.  
That&#8217;s a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breasy.com/blog/2007/11/22/facebook-is-slow-but-theres-an-easy-fix/</link>
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