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Last week, we wrote about LinkedIn's recent issues with its Groups - as part of a new platform rollout, a number of management features were apparently buggy, while others had been removed entirely.


Tonight sees the release of a number of new features on the platform that should quell some of these concerns.  Among the new features are a centralized hub page for every group, where group members can come together and converse with each other in one place.  The release also introduces enhanced group and user management features, including a searchable roster.]]></description>
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Scribd, the popular document sharing hub, has finally rolled out a much-needed redesign.  The site has long been hampered by a messy homepage that wasn't attractive for first-time visitors, displaying a list of its top features in lieu of a YouTube-esque stream of featured documents.  The old design made it clear that Scribd worked well as a utility, but didn't make it attractive as a destination site.  Now, the new site highlights a sampling of its top documents and includes a number of UX changes that Scribd hopes will remedy this issue.
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Last May, Google announced the first set of winners in its two-part contest called Android Challenge, which is meant to kick-start the creation of 3rd-party applications for its nascent mobile platform by enticing developers with a total of $10 million in awards.

Today, Google is releasing the names of its second set of winners, 10 of which receive $275,000 and 10 of which receive $100,000.]]></description>
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Ashton recorded an intro video for Blah Girls letting us know how excited he is about all of the confidentiality and rehearsal requirements around the event.
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Can traffic to a Presidential Candidate's homepage be used to gauge who will win this year's election?  Hitwise has published recent data on the traffic both American presidential candidates have seen in the last month (ending 8/23), and while the results don't seem to shed much light on the forthcoming election's outcome, they reveal a few interesting trends.


Hitwise has ranked each state by two criteria: its contribution to each site's total traffic, and the the overall likelihood that a user in the state will visit the candidate's site (called the Representation index).  If either metric is applicable to the election, it will be Representation Index, which indicates the candidate's popularity on a per-state basis and isn't affected by the state's population.]]></description>
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Things have been quiet over at Jaiku since its acquisition by Google last Fall. People worried that Google may have ruined Twitter's most formidable competitor by requiring the Finnish startup to labor away for months integrating its service into Google's technology stack instead of rolling out new features. All the while, new signups have been disabled and invitations limited, which has cut the service off from a healthy stream of new users.

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The Android Blog is reporting that Google has officially announced the Android Market, an App Store like solution that allows publishers to upload programs and sell them online. 

Developers will be able to make their content available on an open service hosted by Google that features a feedback and rating system similar to YouTube. We chose the term "market" rather than "store" because we feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available. Similar to YouTube, content can debut in the marketplace after only three simple steps: register as a merchant, upload and describe your content and publish it. We also intend to provide developers with a useful dashboard and analytics to help drive their business and ultimately improve their offerings.]]></description>
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According to Silicon Alley Insider, YouTube is about to focus even more intently on leveraging its homepage for profit by selling large format ads that expand to fill the whole page. The ad unit, expected to come in the following weeks, will start at a price of about $200,000 per day with rates increasing in the Fall.
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<description><![CDATA[Why is it that both political campaigns feel the need to have their own social networks.  Barack Obama has my.barackobama.com and John McCain has McCainSpace, which just relaunched with a new design from KickApps after failing massively on its own.  The new McCainSpace design itself is functional enough, giving McCain supporters a central place to discuss election issues via blogs, forums, videos, and photos.  But I'm not sure who the site is supposed to appeal to other than lonely Young Republicans who don't have any friends on Facebook.

The site is aimed at "Generation08," presumably the young'uns that the campaign is having a hard time reaching.   The logo and default photo image remind me of something out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (remember that scene with the alien light coming through the doorway?)  And then there's the welcome video of McCain on the homepage (embedded below), saying "Greetings my friends."  Greetings, gramps.]]></description>
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YouTube has turned on the ability to add full closed captions to videos.  This will not only allow videos to appeal more directly to foreign audiences, but will give YouTube excellent data for searching videos and targeting ads to them.  After all, a complete set of subtitles is the same as a transcript of the video.  And you can upload subtitles for as many languages as you want.  It's excellent data. From the YouTube blog:]]></description>
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Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, has extended its search deal with Google for another three years.  In return for setting Google as the default search engine on Firefox, Google pays Mozilla a substantial sum - in 2006 the total amounted to around $57 million, or 85% of the company's total revenue.  The deal was originally going to expire in 2006, but was later extended to 2008 and will now run through 2011.

The deal will ensure that the non-profit Mozilla foundation will be able to continue with the development of Firefox, its mail client Thunderbird, and a number of other applications. From Mozilla CEO John Lilly:
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According to an AT&#038;T source, net effect problems in the iPhone firmware are causing poor reception and calls dropped for iPhone 3G carriers. It's all your fault.]]></description>
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<title>Microsoft&#x2019;s Live Search Cashback Scheme Fails To Move The Market Share Needle</title>
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When it comes to search, Microsoft is trying everything it can to become a serious player. It tried to acquire Yahoo, its latest version of Internet Explorer attempts to steer Web surfers away from Google, and then there is straight-out payola to search advertisers.  I am talking, of course, of Microsoft's Live Search Cashback promotion, which lets advertisers offer rebates to consumers who make a purchase after doing a Microsoft search.

After Live Cashback launched in May, Microsoft saw an initial one-month boost in its share of the U.S. search market (from 8.5 percent in May to 9.2 percent in June).  But in July, its share slipped again down to 8.9 percent, according to comScore.  Although we only have two months of full data (June and July) since launch to evaluate, it doesn't look like Cashback is having any effect.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the most promising startups to come out of the LaunchBox incubator is JamLegend, a music site with mass appeal.  JamLegend takes the familiar anyone-can-be-a-rockstar model made popular by videogames like Guitar Hero and Rock Band and puts it on the Web.  The site is in private beta, but we have 1,000 invites for the first people to sign up at the site with the invite code "TechCrunch."

Once you sign up, you pick a song from a variety of genres (although right now there are only songs in rock, alternative, and acoustic) and a difficulty level. Once the song starts playing, notes come down as dots on a guitar fret, and you have to press the right buttons on your keyboard and "enter" as they pass by.  You can play "Jam Style," holding your keyboard like an air guitar, or "chill style" (see illustration.).  I'd recommend chill style—you never know who might walk into the room and catch you geek rocking with your keyboard.  The game will will also support game guitars plugged into our computer for serious faux fretters. ]]></description>
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Online dating site SpeedDate has raised $6 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures.  SpeedDate offers users a series of 3 minute mini-dates, during which they can converse through video, audio, and a chat box.  If both partners decide they were a good match when prompted at the end of the date, they can continue communicating through the site until they make the jump to real life.

When we first wrote about SpeedDate, the site had a small userbase, which made it difficult to conduct a series of dates (there simply weren't enough potential matches).  Since then the site has grown substantially (claiming 100,000 dates daily), so you can hop on and hope to find a reasonable match within a few minutes.]]></description>
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<title>What The Veoh Decision Means For YouTube And Others</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Attorneys representing online video sites around the country are salivating today over the Veoh summary judgment decision (I know this because I've spoken to a few of them). In a nutshell, here's what we learned today: If you take reasonable precautions against copyrighted materials on your service, you may be ok. And oh yeah, if you are going to get sued, try to get sued in federal court in northern California, because the judges there are a lot more Internet-friendly than some other federal judges we've seen.

Specifically, the court said that online video sites are protected under the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA if they:]]></description>
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<title>Bungee Labs In A Freefall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bungee Labs, a well funded Utah based startup that left private beta only six months ago, laid off 15 employees today to give themselves more runway on their cash burn rate. The last we checked they had 38 employees, so this is nearly 40% of their total headcount.]]></description>
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<title>FYI, None Of Us Can Go To The Google/Vanity Fair Party Tonight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From: Vanity Fair / Google
Date: August 27, 2008 9:06:32 PM PDT
To: Michael Arrington
Subject: IMPT: Google/Vanity Party Status
Reply-To: demconventionparty@google.com
Thank you for your interest in the Vanity Fair / Google Party.
We have reached full capacity for this event and are unable to accommodate additional guests.
If you have NOT received a Confirmation email&#8211;separate from the automated RSVP response&#8211; [...]]]></description>
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<title>Transcoding Is Not A Crime, Says Court In Veoh Porn Case</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Finally, a judge who may have actually visited the Internet once or twice before deciding a case. Judge Howard Lloyd, a judge on the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, threw out adult entertainment company IO Group's 2006 copyright infringement case against Veoh today. At the time Veoh had some user-uploaded porn on its service that belonged to IO Group. Despite quick takedowns from DMCA notices, IO Group sued anyway.]]></description>
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<title>We Need To Kill The Business Card Once And For All</title>
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<description><![CDATA[

The business card needs to die, and everyone knows it.  They're clumsy, easy to lose and virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally (they kill trees, too).  The cell phone market could easily put business cards out of their misery, but instead of conforming to a single standard for contact exchange, handset manufacturers offer proprietary solutions or none at all.


FriendBook, an iPhone application from Tapulous, looked like it might hold the answer.  The app uses a physical "handshake" to swap information - users simply put their iPhones next to each other and shake them.  Granted, this would only work on iPhones, but it could have paved the way for similar apps on other phones.  But as of yesterday the fate of FriendBook is now in jeopardy due to the departure of its lead developer (and Tapulous cofounder) Mike Lee.  So is all hope lost?
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<title>BackType, A Twitter For Comments</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BackType is the newest YCombinator startup to launch from their summer program. They're a blog-comment focused startup - founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Think Twitter for all comments on the web.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[


FriendFeed, the social activity aggregator, has released a set of customizable widgets that will allow bloggers to make sure their readers can follow all of their activities across the web.  While the site has provided some widgets in the past, this set includes some new widgets to facilitate story sharing and allows for more tweaking than was offered before.

Among the widgets offered are a new profile badge, a list of the most recent items in your feed, and a "Share on FriendFeed" chiclet that allows users to add an item to FriendFeed without leaving your site.  You can grab the widgets here.
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<title>Mark Cuban Joins TechCrunch50 for a One-On-One Interview with Jason Calacanis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark Cuban will be joining the TechCrunch50 program on Tuesday, September 9 for a one-on-one interview with Jason Calacanis from the main stage.  You probably know Mark as both the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Broadcast.com with Todd Wagner.  They then sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in July of 1999 for $5.04 billion.  Before Broadcast.com, Mark co-founded MicroSolutions, a leading National Systems Integrator, in 1983, and later sold it to CompuServe.]]></description>
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<title>Study Suggests Carbon Market Encourages Chopping Forests</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The current carbon market actually encourages cutting down some of the world's biggest forests, which would unleash tons of climate-warming carbon into the atmosphere, a new study reported Monday.]]></description>
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<title>Technology Companies Tout Greener Credentials, but Significant Improvements Are Distant</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With energy costs high and environmental friendliness making for good public relations, more tech companies are touting ways they are "greening" data centers, which serve up Web pages, swap Internet traffic, and process and store business information.
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<title>Westinghouse Seals Mega China Nuclear Deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric signed on Tuesday a multi-billion-dollar deal with Chinese partners to build four nuclear reactors in eastern China, finalising a pact agreed between Beijing and Washington seven months ago.]]></description>
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<title>UN Chief Tells Business Leaders To Do More To Fight Climate Change</title>
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<description><![CDATA[More than 4,000 business leaders, campaign organizations and others in 116 countries have joined the Global Compact -- established by the U.N. in 2000 to promote human rights, better labor practices, environmental protection and anti-corruption standards for business.]]></description>
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<title>China Bans Production and Import of Two Ozone-Depleting Substances</title>
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<description><![CDATA[China has banned the production and import of two ozone-depleting substances, honoring an international commitment to phase them out by 2010, state media reported Monday.]]></description>
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<title>Plant Lovers Want Nurseries To Stop Selling Invasive Plants that Threaten Environment</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Environmental groups hope to slow the spread of decorative but invasive plants by persuading nurseries to stop selling them and instead promote native species.]]></description>
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<title>Canada Must Charge Firms a Lot for Emissions, Panel Says</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Canada's government will eventually have to charge companies a much higher price than anticipated for polluting the atmosphere if it is to stand any chance of meeting promises on cleaning up the environment, a panel said Wednesday.]]></description>
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<title>Nissan Developing Smaller, Lighter Car Batteries for Hybrids and Electric Cars</title>
<link>http://www.enn.com/invest.html?id=1604&#x26;ref=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said Wednesday his company is working hard to develop the next generation of smaller, lighter auto batteries -- a technology that holds promise not just for hybrids but also for electric cars.]]></description>
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<title>U.S. Firms Wary of UN Responsible Business Compact</title>
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<description><![CDATA[U.S. firms have been slow to join a U.N. initiative on social and environmental responsibility in business because of perceptions it has no teeth, the head of the Global Compact said Monday.]]></description>
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<title>Green Aviation Management Forum To Address Environmental Strategies, Sustainable Solutions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In September, the Green Aviation Management Forum will examine issues of environmental strategy
within the aviation industry and explore sustainable solutions,
including emissions trading, alternative fuels, and air traffic
management.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/09/01/080901ta_talk_surowiecki</link>
<description><![CDATA[American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market&#8217;s &#8220;ascent,&#8221; in particular&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: Too many stakeholders can be a deal-breaker.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to build an airplane in the United States. That was the result of a chaotic legal battle among the dozens of companies--including one owned by Orville Wright--that held patents on the various components that made a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Rebecca Mead: Queen Claude&#x26;#39;s prayer book, at the Morgan Library.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/08/04/080804ta_talk_mead</link>
<description><![CDATA[In May, a tiny, exquisite volume went on display at the Morgan Library &#38; Museum: a prayer book made for Queen Claude of France, who was born in the penultimate year of the fifteenth century. Claude, a near-contemporary of Anne Boleyn, who served her at the French court as a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Sponsoring Recklessness</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/07/28/080728ta_talk_surowiecki</link>
<description><![CDATA[When do the words &#8220;not guaranteed&#8221; actually mean &#8220;guaranteed&#8221;? Whenever the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are involved. The two companies have long been required to tell investors that their securities are not guaranteed by the federal government. But in the financial markets everyone has always assumed that&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Oily Speculations</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/07/07/080707ta_talk_surowiecki</link>
<description><![CDATA[When bad things happen, it&#8217;s always nice to have a scapegoat. So, with Americans furious about soaring oil prices, Congress has gone in search of someone to blame. There are a number of usual suspects to choose from, depending on your politics--OPEC, greedy oil companies, lily-livered environmentalists opposed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>All Together Now?</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/06/09/080609ta_talk_surowiecki</link>
<description><![CDATA[These aren&#8217;t great times for CBS. It&#8217;s no longer the network ratings champ; its radio business is dragging; and a recessionary economy is bad news for a company dependent on advertising revenue. So it isn&#8217;t exactly surprising that the company felt it needed to do something dramatic. What&#8217;s surprising is&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Free-Trade Paradox</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/05/26/080526ta_talk_surowiecki</link>
<description><![CDATA[All the acrimony in the primary race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has disguised the fact that on most issues they&#8217;re not too far apart. That&#8217;s especially the case when it comes to free trade, which both Obama and Clinton have lambasted over the past few months. At times&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Cyclone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Burmese military government, which hides from its people in the splendid isolation of a jungle capital newly manufactured in the center of the country, told the public, on April 29th, to expect widespread rain and forty-five-mile-an-hour winds on the southern coast. Cyclone Nargis arrived, on&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Open Secret of Success</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/05/12/080512ta_talk_surowiecki</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the current atmosphere of economic tumult, the announcement that Toyota sold a hundred and sixty thousand more cars than General Motors in the first three months of this year might seem like a minor news item. But it may very well signal the end of one of the most&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Parsing Paulson</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/04/28/080428ta_talk_surowiecki</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the wake of a crisis, the natural response of government officials is often to offer up new rules and regulations. So it came as no surprise when, a few weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson proposed a new regulatory scheme for the nation&#8217;s stricken financial markets. What was surprising&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/business/yourmoney/23money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Your Money: Socially Responsible, With Egg on Its Face</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/business/yourmoney/23money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Many are wondering how one of the oldest practitioners in the field of socially responsible investing got mixed up with companies involved with alcohol, gambling and military contracting.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/business/yourmoney/24view.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Economic View: Finding the Mess Behind the Mess</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/business/yourmoney/24view.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The fundamental problem in the American economy is that, for years, people treated rising asset prices as a substitute for personal savings.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/business/yourmoney/24fund.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Fundamentally: Dividends Still Make a Difference</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/business/yourmoney/24fund.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to dividends, investors should look at time frames significantly longer than a single year.    

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<title>Mortgages: Higher Fees for Mortgages</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/realestate/24mort.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Fannie and Freddie increased the fees they charge lenders for many loans, effectively bumping up interest rates for many borrowers who have marginal credit.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/business/yourmoney/23cost.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Cost of Living: Feeling Broke? Talk It Out</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/business/yourmoney/23cost.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[People seem to be confused about the present, uneasy about the future and a bit more willing to open up to other people about money.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/business/23bump.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>More Flights Are Overbooked, but Payoffs Are Rising</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/business/23bump.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The chance of losing your seat may be higher this fall, but airlines are offering more compensation.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/business/23insure.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Driving Is Down, but Auto Insurance Rates Are Rising</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/business/23insure.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The reduced driving has not yet shown up as fewer accidents, and meanwhile, other factors are driving up the overall cost of claims, insurance companies say.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/business/yourmoney/16money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Your Money: Gauging the Worth of a Frequent-Flier Credit Card</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/business/yourmoney/16money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Five questions you should ask yourself as airlines alter their frequent-flier programs, add fees and raise the number of miles you need to get some tickets.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/business/retirement/16retire.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Retire Now, and Risk Falling Short on Your Nest Egg</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/business/retirement/16retire.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you have just retired or are about to retire, your timing could not be worse.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/realestate/17mort.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Mortgages: Finding Cash in a Home</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/realestate/17mort.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new service essentially offers a cash advance on the home, in exchange for the owner’s promise to share in the home’s future appreciation.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/business/16shortcuts.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Shortcuts: Winners Never Quit? Well, Yes, They Do</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/business/16shortcuts.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Winners do quit. The trick, of course, is to know when it’s right to walk away and when it’s not.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/business/yourmoney/09money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Your Money: Even Small Nest Eggs Need Advice</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/business/yourmoney/09money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The clients most in need of help often get the least access to competent financial advice. But Citi’s global wealth management unit has come up with a way to try to serve this untapped market.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/business/09mortgage.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Mortgage Rates, Down for So Long, Are Creeping Back Up and Crimping Affordability</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/business/09mortgage.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you are a prospective home buyer waiting for the bottom of the housing market, there is another fact you need to take into account: mortgage rates are rising.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/business/10fund.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Fundamentally: How to Rebalance While Walking on Eggs</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/business/10fund.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this volatile market, it’s important to pay attention to how recent market slides are affecting your long-term asset allocation strategy.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/business/economy/09bargain.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Calculating Where Home Prices Will Land</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/business/economy/09bargain.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Housing continues to pull down the economy, but some say the pain is ending. Are they right?    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/business/09cost.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Cost of Living: The Price Is the Same; It&#x2019;s the Size That Shrinks</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/business/09cost.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[According to a new study, many supermarket goods are being packaged to sell in ever smaller quantities, while prices stay the same.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/business/yourmoney/02money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Your Money: Ditch the Gas Guzzler? Well, Maybe Not Yet</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/business/yourmoney/02money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[There are some questions to consider if you are tempted to get rid of your S.U.V., and some tips for figuring out whether it may be more financially sensible to hang onto it for a little longer.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/business/media/04adco.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Advertising: The High Cost of a &#x2018;Free Credit Report&#x2019;</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/business/media/04adco.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Catchy television ads for FreeCreditReport.com don’t highlight another catch tied to the service: a monthly fee.    

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<title>Shortcuts: For Extended Car Warranties, Resist the Showroom Pitch</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/business/yourmoney/02shortcuts.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[New-car extended warranties are rarely great deals -- and if you must buy one, not purchasing it rolled up with the new car is often beneficial.    

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<title>The Count: Credit Squeeze Puts Dream on Back Burner</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/business/27count.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A severe tightening of credit is preventing more people than before to start their own companies.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/business/yourmoney/26money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Your Money: Danger Lurks When Shopping for Student Loans</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/business/yourmoney/26money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Comparison shopping for a private student loan -- unlike a mortgage or an auto loan -- may hurt your credit score.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/business/25money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Your Money: Housing Bill Has Something for Nearly Everyone</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/business/25money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you think the housing bailout bill will benefit only troubled homeowners, you may miss out on a windfall.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/business/yourmoney/19money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Your Money: Honor Your Word, or This Banker May Call Mom</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/business/yourmoney/19money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A look at the local community bank, where bankers try to make prudent loans within the community and try to keep customers from making a mess of their finances.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/business/13count.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The Count: Watching That Balance Grow . . . and Grow</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/business/13count.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[It’s a tried-and-true piece of financial advice: try not to make too many purchases on credit.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/business/yourmoney/05money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Your Money: When Credit Gets Tight, a 401(k) Loan Becomes Tempting</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/business/yourmoney/05money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Examining the rationales for supporting or damning the practice of borrowing against a retirement fund can be a useful exercise.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/business/yourmoney/28money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Your Money: Food-Shopping Tips Direct From the Store Manager</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/business/yourmoney/28money.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[As food costs soar, a high-quality grocer is experimenting with ways to save money while not sacrificing taste.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/business/yourmoney/28cost.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Cost of Living: Economy Can Wait; Stimulate Your Savings</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/business/yourmoney/28cost.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[As millions are receiving stimulus checks in the mail, it pays to ask oneself whether it ought to be spent the way Congress intended it, or whether it should be saved.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/business/2007_BUYRENT_GRAPHIC.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Is It Better to Buy or Rent?</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/business/2007_BUYRENT_GRAPHIC.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Compare the costs of renting and buying equivalent homes.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12010733&#x26;fsrc=rss">
<title>Poverty: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The world is poorer than we thought, the World Bank discoversIN APRIL 2007 the World Bank announced that 986m people worldwide suffered from extreme poverty&#8212;the first time its count had dropped below 1 billion. On August 26th it had grim news to report. According to two of its leading researchers, Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion, the &#8220;developing world is poorer than we thought&#8221;. The number of poor was almost 1.4 billion in 2005.This does not mean the plight of the poor had worsened&#8212;only that the plight is now better understood. The bank has improved its estimates of the cost of living around the world, thanks to a vast effort to compare the price of hundreds of products, from packaged rice to folding umbrellas, in 146 countries. In many poor countries the cost of living was steeper than previously thought, which meant more people fell short of the poverty line. ...]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11664289&#x26;fsrc=rss">
<title>Who runs the world?: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The post-war global institutions have largely worked well. But rising countries and growing threats are challenging their pre-eminence THE powerful, like the victorious, do not just write history. They grab the seats at the top tables, from the United Nations Security Council to the boards of the big international economic and financial institutions. They collude behind closed doors. They decide who can join their cosy clubs and expect the rest of the world to obey the instructions they hand down. That is how many outsiders, not just in the poor world, will see the summit that takes place from July 7th to 9th of the G8, the closest the world has to an informal (ie, self-appointed) steering group. Leaders of seven of the world&#8217;s richest democracies, plus oil-and gas-fired Russia, gather this year in Toyako, on Hokkaido in northern Japan, to ruminate on climate change, rising food and energy prices, and the best way to combat global scourges from disease to nuclear proliferation. ...]]></description>
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<title>International government: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Global institutions are an outdated muddle; the rise of Asia makes their reform a priority for the WestCLUBS are all too often full of people prattling on about things they no longer know about. On July 7th the leaders of the group that allegedly runs the world&#8212;the G7 democracies plus Russia&#8212;gather in Japan to review the world economy. But what is the point of their discussing the oil price without Saudi Arabia, the world&#8217;s biggest producer? Or waffling about the dollar without China, which holds so many American Treasury bills? Or slapping sanctions on Robert Mugabe, with no African present? Or talking about global warming, AIDS or inflation without anybody from the emerging world? Cigar smoke and ignorance are in the air.The G8 is not the only global club that looks old and impotent (see article). The UN Security Council has told Iran to stop enriching uranium, without much effect. The nuclear non-proliferation regime is in tatters. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the fireman in previous financial crises, has been a bystander during the credit crunch. The World Trade Organisation&#8217;s Doha round is stuck. Of course, some bodies, such as the venerable Bank for International Settlements (see article), still do a fine job. But as global problems proliferate and information whips round the world ever faster, the organisational response looks ever shabbier, slower and feebler. The world&#8217;s governing bodies need to change.  ...]]></description>
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