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		<title>An Open Approach to Enterprise IT Monitoring</title>
		<link>http://techslant.com/2010/01/an-open-approach-to-enterprise-it-monitoring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Parish</dc:creator>
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Large organizations are spending millions to monitor their plethora of discombobulated systems.  This spend seemed logical pre-Twitter when we didn&#8217;t really understand the power of combining a simple 140 character message with an open API. However, now is a great time for IT companies to rethink their enterprise and closed approached to monitoring.


Currently companies have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The .LY in Link Shrinking (A Closer Look at Bit.ly and Ow.ly)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Parish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of link shortening services are available today, but I believe some research and consideration is a must before embracing two of the more popular services.]]></description>
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		<title>WordCamp Orlando 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Barrett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first annual gathering of WordPress users and programmers took place Saturday, 12/5. WordCamp Orlando was held in 2 buildings on the beautiful Rollins College campus in Winter Haven. There was free WiFi but AC Power was a little difficult to come by, so more than once I had to seek out space on crowded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bible Verse Auto Tweet Example</title>
		<link>http://techslant.com/2009/04/bible-verse-auto-tweet-example/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Parish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I built a quick tool that automatically updates a Twitter account with a daily Bible verse from ESV.org (@TodaysVerse). The English Standard Version Bible has a really nice API that allows anyone to pull passages directly from their site. Likewise, Twitter has a very popular API that allows developers to build programs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palm Pre is Foundationally Open Source</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Parish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before (or Pre) this year&#8217;s Computer Electronic Show, I was not thinking about Palm. My current Palm Centro is slow, too small, and all of the apps are really old. I had decided on waiting for a Google Android phone for the Sprint network.
Then CES happened&#8230; The new Pre looks like a character from Wall-e. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source is not Pirates of the Caribbean’s Tortuga</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Parish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the pirate port-town called Tortuga in Pirates of the Caribbean? Tortuga was out of the jurisdictions of the Royal Navy and the East India Trading Company. The place really lacked order. In Tortuga, pirates got slapped and first-mates where found in less than desirable places. Many IT professionals may think of images similar to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ajax Is Open for Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Parish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all heard the significance of dynamic and hot-from-the-oven content to keep our web-sites relevant. With the advent of Web 2.0, web-sites once again impress us with easier to use and more responsive user experiences. These new enhancements are not powered by new technology, but rather by a new way of using old technology. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AdBrite Continues to Offer a Stellar Alternative to Google and Yahoo for Website Publishers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Parish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all read the news stories of the great dot com disasters in the late 90’s. The stories involved web-based companies that provided services completely free in the hopes of making money in advertising sales. Without a doubt these were true disasters, however a major problem with the &#8220;give it away and sell ads&#8221; model [...]]]></description>
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