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		<title>Dear Foursquare: A SMS User&#8217;s Wish List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Foursquare, After 550 check-ins to date, primarily via SMS, I have a wish list of enhancements that would make Foursquare via SMS so much easier to use. First a little background.  I&#8217;m a huge fan of the service and want it to succeed, but the SMS experience is frustrating at best.  The biggest problem is getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joesiewert.com/2010/06/dear-foursquare-a-sms-users-wish-list/</link>
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		<title>The Strokes Use Twitter To Hype Secret Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long hiatus, The Strokes are now working on their fourth album and announced a series of festival appearances for 2010.  Their long dormant Twitter account came to life in May and they have been using it to build buzz as they work on the album and return to the stage this summer. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joesiewert.com/2010/06/the-strokes-use-twitter-to-hype-secret-show/</link>
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		<title>Barrio Hosting Twin Cities Foursquare Meetup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barrio in Lowertown St. Paul is hosting a Foursquare meetup on Wednesday, May 26th.  They are offering free drinks with every food purchase and if enough people come by a Swarm Badge might get unlocked too.  All the event details are on their Facebook page. Events like this are a great way for restaurants and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joesiewert.com/2010/05/barrio-hosting-twin-cities-foursquare-meetup/</link>
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		<title>Getting Started With Windows 7 Gadgets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the last few days playing with gadgets in Windows 7 and learning the basics to build one.  The basic structure is surprisingly simple, requiring only an XML configuration file and a HTML file for the UI and logic.  Gadgets are actually just little web applications running inside of Internet Explorer, so they can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joesiewert.com/2010/04/getting-started-with-windows-7-gadgets/</link>
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		<title>How To Use The Foursquare API With OAuth And PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started playing with the Foursquare API and one of the first things you need to do is figure out how to authenticate with Foursquare to make calls to the API. It took me awhile to figure this out and start making successful calls, so I thought others could benefit from a detailed tutorial. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joesiewert.com/2010/04/how-to-use-the-foursquare-api-with-oauth-and-php/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts On Eat.ly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eat.ly is a new web service that lets you &#8220;track, share and discover food.&#8221;  It&#8217;s basically a photo blog, similar to DailyBooth, but focused around food.  You take photos of what you eat, provide a few details and email them to Eat.ly for publishing. I&#8217;m intrigued by it because it&#8217;s simple, visual, social and nicely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joesiewert.com/2010/04/thoughts-on-eatly/</link>
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		<title>56K Modems, The National Broadband Plan And Google’s Fiber Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other weekend I was pulling apart and reconfiguring some old PCs.  I pulled out a 56K modem from one PC and it made me stop and think about how long it’s been since I used one.  I was first able to use broadband around 2001.  Broadband infrastructure has come a long way in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joesiewert.com/2010/04/56k-modems-the-national-broadband-plan-and-google%e2%80%99s-fiber-network/</link>
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		<title>The NYC Startup Scene And The Ghostbusters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am closely following a lot of tech startups lately (can you tell what my favorite one is right now?) and while Silicon Valley still remains a major hub of activity, New York City is generating a lot of buzz. The NYC Tech Scene Is Exploding New York Isn&#8217;t Silicon Valley 20 Hot New York [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joesiewert.com/2010/04/the-nyc-startup-scene-and-the-ghostbusters/</link>
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		<title>Send Email With sSMTP And Gmail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I setup the server that runs this website I wanted to receive emails from my contact page and also from my backup jobs that run overnight.  There are many open source mail servers (MTAs) that can accomplish this, but most are overkill for just sending a few emails. sSMTP is a simple, lightweight MTA that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joesiewert.com/2010/03/send-email-with-ssmtp-and-gmail/</link>
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		<title>Foursquare Introduces New Business Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foursquare is one year old and has some impressive stats to celebrate: Over 500,000 users Over 1,000,000 badges have been awarded Over 1.4 million venues with 1200 offering specials Over 15.5 million checkins Foursquare has already discussed that checking in is becoming a commodity and this week there was more news about Facebook and Twitter getting into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joesiewert.com/2010/03/foursquare-introduces-new-business-tools/</link>
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