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	<title>Hi, I&#039;m Ramine (but you can call me @9rd)</title>
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		<title>Why Gears of War 3 is better than Tetris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read a post on Neogaf which explained why after playing Portal 2, Ico felt very tame. I would like to empathise with the author. After playing Gears of War 3, Tetris really pales in comparison. On a high<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/why-gears-of-war-3-is-better-than-tetris/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/why-gears-of-war-3-is-better-than-tetris/</link>
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		<title>The Lessons of a Frozen Baguette in the Valley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’d like to share the lessons I’ve learned since I arrived in the Bay Area from Helsinki. Unlike other posts that talk about the ecosystem, the culture and all that, I wanted to write about how it is to actually<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/the-lessons-of-a-frozen-baguette-in-the-valley/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/the-lessons-of-a-frozen-baguette-in-the-valley/</link>
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		<title>Gaming For Science!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For all the useless gamification talk, here are two fun games that promote science and help researchers. &#160; The first game is EteRNA. It’s a puzzle game, where you create RNA shape. The role of RNA isn’t fully understood yet,<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/gaming-for-science/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/gaming-for-science/</link>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Going to Silicon Valley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I asked on ReadWriteWeb: should European entrepreneurs aim smaller and within their comfort zone, take greater risks in the Valley, or try the hard way in the old continent? I decided to put my money where my mouth is<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/why-im-moving-to-silicon-valley/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/why-im-moving-to-silicon-valley/</link>
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		<title>PS3, PSP and DSi Common Keys Hacked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who follow console hacking have probably seen the news: the 3 consoles have been hacked in a week. &#160; A few months ago, the PS3 had been jailbroken, but the publishing of the keys means that any<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/ps3-psp-and-dsi-common-keys-hacked/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/ps3-psp-and-dsi-common-keys-hacked/</link>
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		<title>Map of the Different Gamer Demographics</title>
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		<link>http://ramine.net/map-of-the-different-gamer-demographics/</link>
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		<title>Get Ready for Garage48 Helsinki!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The biggest hackathon in the Nordics is just around the corner. Garage48 Helsinki will take place next weekend from Friday 14th to Sunday 16th at the Aalto Venture Garage. &#160; I covered the previous Garage48 that took place in Tartu,<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/get-ready-for-garage48-helsinki/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/get-ready-for-garage48-helsinki/</link>
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		<title>Mysites is back online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a 24 hour down time. This happened right after we tried unbanning Chinese traffic. Skype, Facebook, Twitter, they all go down too, but they have more resources than we do :( &#160; Everything is back to normal. No<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/mysites-is-back-online/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/mysites-is-back-online/</link>
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		<title>Thank you for making my 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve gone through my Facebook feed for the whole previous year to find what I did. I was surprised by the amount of things there. When you live on a day-to-day basis, it’s difficult to get the full picture. Thankfully<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/thank-you-for-making-my-2010/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/thank-you-for-making-my-2010/</link>
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		<title>Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth Demo Finally Released!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth is a fangame built similarly to Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. I figured I would share the news here, because I’m a big fan of old school adventure games as well<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/indiana-jones-and-the-fountain-of-youth-demo-finally-released/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/indiana-jones-and-the-fountain-of-youth-demo-finally-released/</link>
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		<title>My Posts on ReadWriteWeb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve written on ReadWriteWeb 3 times so far, with hopefully more coming. I’ve put a lot of effort on these posts, I believe they are my best analytical posts yet. I’m really happy to have contributed to a top blog,<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/my-posts-on-readwriteweb/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/my-posts-on-readwriteweb/</link>
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		<title>My Gaming Posts on SiliconAngle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve known Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, Editor in chief of Siliconangle for a few years now. He asked me to do a series of high quality analysis pieces on gaming for Siliconangle. I enjoy writing about gaming as it is a<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/my-gaming-posts-on-siliconangle/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/my-gaming-posts-on-siliconangle/</link>
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		<title>My Nordic Posts on Arcticstartup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a few months, I decided that blogging about the Finnish and Nordic ecosystem would be more effective on Arcticstartup than doing so on my blog (this is why there was such a big gap in my posts here). I<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/my-nordic-posts-on-arcticstartup/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/my-nordic-posts-on-arcticstartup/</link>
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		<title>My Video Interviews on Nerdstalker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early this year, I made a series of video interviews of Finnish startups for Nerdstalker. The style resembles Robert Scoble’s work. I find filming such videos very fun, but getting them edited is rather time consuming! Iron Sky – Interview<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/my-video-interviews-on-nerdstalker/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/my-video-interviews-on-nerdstalker/</link>
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		<title>Extended Mind and Singularity Talks at TEDx Proacademy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One month ago, Proacademy organized a TEDx in Tampere, Finland. We prepared a series of 3 talks together with Lauri Jarvilehto (Dr in Philosophy) and Jaan Tallin (co-founder of Kazaa and Skype), that discussed the topics of the Extended Mind<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/extended-mind-and-singularity-talks-at-tedx-proacademy-3/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/extended-mind-and-singularity-talks-at-tedx-proacademy-3/</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0′s Unnoticed Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit of history Many people’s interest in startups started in 2005-2008. It was a time where the role models were Delicious and Flickr and MySpace was the hottest thing since sauna. Techcrunch was an up and coming blog, where<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/web-2-0s-unnoticed-death/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/web-2-0s-unnoticed-death/</link>
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		<title>The Cloud Threatens Smaller Players</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last September, during my talk at the Finnish Internet Forum, I mentioned the risk of the cloud becoming dominated by US-based private companies. For all the “data is going to the cloud” talk, very few people I’ve met think of<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/the-cloud-threatens-smaller-players/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/the-cloud-threatens-smaller-players/</link>
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		<title>TEDx Proacademy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TEDx Proacademy took place yesterday. There were some really inspiring speakers (find out more here), though I didn’t understand much of the presentations in Finnish. I was pretty impressed by the quality of the organization. The venue was really nice,<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/tedx-proacademy/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/tedx-proacademy/</link>
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		<title>Upload / Share / Play From Your Desktop Using MySites Uploader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve recently finished the version 1 one our desktop uploader! It allows you to easily drag an drop files from your desktop, to upload on MySites. You can select many files, and any kind of media (photos, videos etc), no<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/upload-share-play-from-your-desktop-using-mysites-uploader/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/upload-share-play-from-your-desktop-using-mysites-uploader/</link>
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		<title>7 Tips for Very Early Startups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been coaching 10 teams at Summer of Startups for 2 days now. Though it’s been a short period of time, this has plunged me back in the time when I too was starting. Be a sponge I forgot how<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/7-tips-for-very-early-startups/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/7-tips-for-very-early-startups/</link>
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		<title>A quick chat with Alan Moore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I interviewed Alan Moore, author of Communities Dominate Brands, last week at Startup BBQ in Helsinki. We talk about Nokia, how large scale companies are changing their processes, how crowdsourcing fits in management, LocalMotors (a crowdsourced car company), the difference between open<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/a-quick-chat-with-alan-moore/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/a-quick-chat-with-alan-moore/</link>
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		<title>Summer of Startups Feedback – SRC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Himanshu sent us an application for his team, SRC. Their team consists of two students based in India, who both study in IIT Delhi, making them some of the top tech students in India. Here is my feedback on his<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/summer-of-startups-feedback-src/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/summer-of-startups-feedback-src/</link>
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		<title>Summer of Startups feedback – Shobu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fandi Yacine has been very active with Shobu. He participated to an earlier Aaltoes pitching competition, and applied to Summer of Startups. He was also commenting actively on posts that are related. Today he discovered that Shobu was not selected<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/summer-of-startups-feedback-shobu/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/summer-of-startups-feedback-shobu/</link>
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		<title>My Review of Summer of Startups Applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just finished reviewing the applications to Summer of Startups. For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s a program like Y-Combinator that’s being organized for the first time in Finland. Selection process First of all, thanks<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/my-review-of-summer-of-startups-applications/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/my-review-of-summer-of-startups-applications/</link>
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		<title>MySites Grows Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been blogging a lot about entrepreneurship lately. I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at MySites. We haven’t communicated much with the media lately, in favor of talking directly to our users and improving our service for<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/mysites-grows-up/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/mysites-grows-up/</link>
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		<title>We’ve Come a Long Way, Finland.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, as I was starting to work on MySites 1.0, I was living in Tampere. It was a pretty lonely thing. I knew of no other startups in the city. I was involved in IGDA (the International Game<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/weve-come-a-long-way-finland/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/weve-come-a-long-way-finland/</link>
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		<title>Why Consultants Often Make Bad Advisors for Startups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A large portion of the public support money in Finland is aimed at paying consultants. The belief is that by hiring an expert to come join your company, they can help you improve your structure or your offering. The curriculum<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/why-consultant-make-bad-advisors-for-startups/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/why-consultant-make-bad-advisors-for-startups/</link>
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		<title>List of the Finnish Startup Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve compiled a list of startup-related blogs from Finland. Some of these are either no longer updated, or infrequently, but they are all definitely worth the read. Dirty Aura Teemu Kurppa, co-founder of Huikea. Antti Akonniemi&#8217;s blog Co-founder of Kisko Ventures. Taneli<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/the-finnish-startup-blogs/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/the-finnish-startup-blogs/</link>
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		<title>Get Paid to Create a Startup at Summer of Startups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Summer used to be: watch TV, get some drinks, play video games, hang out on the Internet, repeat. Some people I know got crappy Summer jobs selling ice cream, cleaning tables etc, made a quick buck, bought a couple<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/get-paid-to-create-a-startup-summer-of-startups/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/get-paid-to-create-a-startup-summer-of-startups/</link>
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		<title>10 Challenges for the Finnish Startup Ecosystem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I moved to Finland in Summer 2004, and started my company (MySites) in 2006. During that time, I have been able to witness and participate in the development of the nascent Finnish startup ecosystem, as well as get experience from<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/ten-challenges-for-the-finnish-startup-ecosystem/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/ten-challenges-for-the-finnish-startup-ecosystem/</link>
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		<title>The Importance of Passion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I live a rather simple life. I’m very passionate about a few things. I  completely ignore the others. Though I enjoy things such as writing, music, good cuisine very much, the one thing that has driven me most of my<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/the-importance-of-passion-rage-and-dreams/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/the-importance-of-passion-rage-and-dreams/</link>
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		<title>Hacking Google Voice to work in Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who know me know that I&#8217;m an early adopter. This weekend, I decided to start using Google Voice. It&#8217;s not exactly an easy feat when you&#8217;re living in Europe. We, simple people of the Old Continent, do<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/my-experience-with-google-voice/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/my-experience-with-google-voice/</link>
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		<title>MySites V2.0: 400% Growth!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just launched a new design for MySites 2 weeks ago already. We still consider it beta, as we still have a few things to tweak. Apparently, you people seem to like it a lot, because there&#8217;s been 400% more<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/mysites-thanks-you/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/mysites-thanks-you/</link>
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		<title>MySites: Recovering from Hypergrowth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MySites speed should be back to normal now! As I explained earlier, MySites has been getting considerably more traffic lately. Many people have been asking me why the site has been so slow. The reason is that we weren&#8217;t ready<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/mysites-status-of-january/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/mysites-status-of-january/</link>
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		<title>Finnish Game Jam (We won!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, I was at Global Game Jam. It&#8217;s a worldwide event, in 40 countries, where people get together in small groups, and have 48 hours to create a game from scratch. Here is our game: The Ultimate Showdown! You<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/global-game-jam-i-made-a-video-game/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/global-game-jam-i-made-a-video-game/</link>
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		<title>Lessons learned in Silicon Valley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I received an email from a student who&#8217;s enthusiastic about his new startup. He asked me about what to do in San Francisco. I forwarded him a list of events to follow, and a video presentation about what<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/repost-lessons-learned-in-silicon-valley/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/repost-lessons-learned-in-silicon-valley/</link>
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		<title>MySites: Exponential Growth in Aug 09 &#8211; Jan 10!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a quick overview of the hits on MySites, from August 2009 to January 2010 (though January is not over yet). As you can see, we&#8217;ve been growing substantially for 3 months now. Here&#8217;s your &#8220;hockey stick&#8221; :) This is<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/mysites-stats-aug-09-jan-10-exponential-curve/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/mysites-stats-aug-09-jan-10-exponential-curve/</link>
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		<title>Finland&#8217;s Fundamentally Broken Public Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read earlier today a blog entry by Antti Villponen from ArcticStartup, which raised an interesting point about growth entrepreneurship in Finland. Only 3% of businesses in the country are growth businesses (eg +10% growth per year). This is insufficient<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/the-fundamentally-broken-finnish-funding-system/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/the-fundamentally-broken-finnish-funding-system/</link>
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		<title>What We Did in San Francisco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 2.5 weeks in San Francisco, I&#8217;ve attended many events. One thing I didn&#8217;t realize was that there&#8217;s really a lot of them, and many of them are very large. People in Silicon Valley like to network! (I&#8217;ll<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/events-i-attended-in-san-francisco/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/events-i-attended-in-san-francisco/</link>
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		<title>MySites integrates with Facebook Connect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this summer, we made a choice to drop major functionality such as friends, messaging, comments and replace those with Facebook instead. It was a difficult choice to make. We decided to throw away tons of work hours, some of<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/mysites-facebook-win/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/mysites-facebook-win/</link>
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		<title>Why MySites likes Partnerships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think many startups are wasting time trying to stab each other in the back. We&#8217;re about to start two partnerships next week. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned from these. 1) Offering: At the end of the day, it&#8217;s the users<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/partnerships-lets-be-friends/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/partnerships-lets-be-friends/</link>
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		<title>What I Thought of Assembly ’09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, Assembly 09 took place (ASM09 in short). Those of you who don&#8217;t know what it is, it&#8217;s the largest LAN and demoscene party in the world. Here&#8217;s what I did there :) 1) Gamer stuff One thing that<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/assembly-09/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/assembly-09/</link>
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		<title>MySites &#8211; Lessons Learned (so far)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re not happy with the current functionality of MySites. Some things needed fixing. I would like to share a list of lessons we&#8217;ve learned, and the things which are changing. What the hell is this site? Every time a new<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/mysites-lessons-weve-learned-so-far/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/mysites-lessons-weve-learned-so-far/</link>
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		<title>How to Drive European Startup Success Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There aren&#8217;t so many success stories for Internet entrepreneurs in Europe. Maybe Europeans don&#8217;t want to succeed? There are no stories When you were a kid, you probably wanted to be a cowboy, a doctor or a policeman. You probably<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/euntrepreneur-part-2-success/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/euntrepreneur-part-2-success/</link>
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		<title>Why being an entrepreneur in Europe is difficult</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I just invented a new word. This is the first part in a series of articles on being an Internet entrepreneur in Europe. Why is it so difficult to do an Internet startup in Europe? Welcome to Europe, we<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/euntrepreneur-or-why-its-difficult-to-be-an-internet-entrepreneur-in-europe/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/euntrepreneur-or-why-its-difficult-to-be-an-internet-entrepreneur-in-europe/</link>
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		<title>Iran &#8211; Guerilla Tactics in the Internet Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Iranian election brings forward an interesting issue. For the first time ever, social media has a clear edge on larger professional media outlets for the coverage of a major political event. What&#8217;s been happening After the election, protests were<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/iran-vs-social-media-guerilla-tactics-2-0/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/iran-vs-social-media-guerilla-tactics-2-0/</link>
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		<title>A Letter to Professor Hawking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may know, Professor Stephen Hawking has been admitted to the hospital yesterday, as he had been suffering from a chest infection for a week. Those of you who are not familiar with him, Hawking is not<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/dear-professor-hawking/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/dear-professor-hawking/</link>
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		<title>What is my daily work as a founder like?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered what a CEO does? or what you need to do in a startup? I get to meet a lot of people, most of which are not familiar with startups, online business and all those things. Inevitably,<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/what-do-i-do/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/what-do-i-do/</link>
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		<title>How the Web is Making You Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning I started using the web in 1995. At the time, I was a teenager with &#8220;unorthodox&#8221; interests such as gaming, computers, Star Trek and the Monty Pythons, living in a conservative, anglo-phobic country (France) Needless to say,<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/the-web-is-making-you-more-human/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/the-web-is-making-you-more-human/</link>
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		<title>My Problem with the Social Media Fad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a problem: I have: * 1230 contacts on Facebook. * 315+ followers on Twitter. * I run an Internet startup that&#8217;s about sharing media. And I&#8217;m not sure what &#8220;Social Media&#8221; means. I understand it&#8217;s a buzz word.<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://ramine.net/my-problem-with-social-media/"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://ramine.net/my-problem-with-social-media/</link>
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