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	<title>My silicon valley experience</title>
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		<title>Twitter shaken by earthquake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Scoble was able to get news about the earthquake in China onto his blog before any major news side was able to. How? He got the news from fellow twitterers in China while it was still shaking there.
And what is the outcome? Twitter gets a lot of major media attention and is down all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mysiliconvalleyexperience.com/archives/twitter-shaken-by-earthquake</link>
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		<title>Install Ubuntu&#8217;s build-essentials without the CD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am running Ubuntu since a few days and am pretty unexperienced with Linux in general. I just needed to install the build-essentials but it wanted me to insert the installation disc. Since I am in the university right now this was not at hand. There seemed to be a thread at http://ubuntuforums.org but the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mysiliconvalleyexperience.com/archives/install-ubuntus-build-essentials-without-the-cd</link>
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		<title>Rediscovering the beauty of Python</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had to implement an approximation algorithm for the subset sum problem for a class at university. Since this algorithm contains a lot of list operations I decided to use Python for this since it&#8217;s a great language for this kind of stuff and I wanted to be done fast. This turned out to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mysiliconvalleyexperience.com/archives/rediscovering-the-beauty-of-python</link>
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		<title>Privacy 2.0</title>
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In the last days I listened to two German podcasts (SWR2, Werbeblogger) talking about privacy in the times of the web2.0. Alot people are sharing information on the web that usually would supposed to be private. We publish photos on social networking platforms or flickr. We update people about the status of our relationship, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mysiliconvalleyexperience.com/archives/privacy-20</link>
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		<title>Is the iPhone Apple&#8217;s key to desktop dominance?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the O&#8217;Reilly radar the iPhone is getting really popular among managers. The iPhone is able to convince by it&#8217;s user friendliness and elegance. Apparently this convinces managers to switch to Apple products also for their computers. Some of them did that not only with their private machines but also do this switch at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mysiliconvalleyexperience.com/archives/is-the-iphone-the-key-to-desktop-dominance</link>
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		<title>Mashup tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to do a little survey about three different mashup tools for university. Those tools where Microsoft Popfly, Google Mashup Editor and Yahoo! Pipes. I first tried Yahoo! Pipes and was really amazed how easy it is to build simple Mashups. Because it was fast and easy I decided to build a simple application [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mysiliconvalleyexperience.com/archives/mashup-tools</link>
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		<title>More cream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we went for a walk in the neighborhood and to University Avenue. I used this occasion to make a bunch of photos you can see below. We also passed by the Peninsula Fountain &#38; Grill where we continued our cream test. The price here was slightly higher ($5.5) than at the Peninsula Creamery but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mysiliconvalleyexperience.com/archives/more-cream</link>
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		<title>Cream crawl &#038; Buck&#8217;s restaurant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we wanted to do a cream crawl. It can be compared to a pub crawl only that you go from one creamery to the next and have milk shakes instead of going from pub to pub and have booze. Our trip started at the Peninsula Creamery on Channing and High street. Here I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mysiliconvalleyexperience.com/archives/cream-crawl-bucks-restaurant</link>
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		<title>Second day at university</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second day at university was so much better. First class was given by Prof. Smith about the Design and Analysis of Algorithms. This class covers exactly what I expected when I registered. So we will learn about NP-completeness, which is cool since I already know about it. Further we will learn how to approach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mysiliconvalleyexperience.com/archives/second-day-at-university</link>
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		<title>First lecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I attended my first lecture in the US. The experience couldn&#8217;t have been any more different than from university in Germany. The lecture wasn&#8217;t a lecture but more the forming of a project group. The aim is to create a database system using C. The system is supposed to have a good new feature [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mysiliconvalleyexperience.com/archives/first-lecture</link>
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