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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Personal &#8211; We Just Don&#8217;t Give a&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing that has drove me batty over the years of using Facebook, Twitter (etc) is the real &#8216;dis-connectedness&#8217; at a time when we are supposedly more and more connected. My opinion; bollox. You ant to find out how connected you really are and how many of your hundreds (or thousands) of your adoring friends, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOPA and the Entertainment Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading about SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) I can&#8217;t help being bemused by the whole thing. After all, it&#8217;s the entertainment industry who seem to be doing most of the pushing for it, and yet they are the ones sharing all their content more than individuals via YouTube, Facebook etc., and losing sales because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth About (Most) Free Advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are two big questions I search the answers to whenever I see the word FREE. I do this because FREE is usually BS. Free is most often a trick, a con, a scam, a lure. I like to call it a &#8220;gotcha!&#8221; They get you attention with the word free. Gotcha! They make you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Pay Apple&#8217;s Premium Prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Your website doesn&#8217;t work on my computer!&#8221; ~ As a developer the sure way of keeping my eyes propped open at night staring into the abyss with CSS, HTML and PHP code whzzing through my grey matter is to inform me over dinner that &#8220;oh, by the way, your website crashes my browser!&#8221; Web Developer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook is for Small Businesses Too!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As almost all big brands embrace Social Media and create a presence for their products and services on Facebook business pages, should small businesses take notice?&#8221; Today I was asked that very open question about businesses and social networks&#8230; Of course. But there has to be a strategy; a reason for having a page, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon; It&#8217;s The Little Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Testing is so important whether writing content, designing a layout or preparing a newsletter. It should never be assumed that what you see on your computer is exactly what ill be seen on the user&#8217;s or recipient&#8217;s computer. This is clearly evidence of lack of testing by Amazon staff! Testing testing, 1, 2, 3&#8230; Is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iCloud &#8211; Apple&#8217;s BIG FAIL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gadget Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When news of Apple&#8217;s Cloud Storage service &#8220;iCloud&#8221; stormed around the web it was welcomed with excitement for anyone using a Mac and an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. It meant &#8220;finally&#8221; we could sync our files. It was the best part of iOS 5. Or, at least, it should have been. But, alas, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet Another SMM Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With several thousand books already written about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc, you&#8217;d be forgiven for thinking there&#8217;d be little left to say. But, sure enough, there&#8217;s a new SMM book out now and, no doubt, hoards of people, looking for the miracle formula, will buy it. But, let me save you a few quid. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodle&#8217;s Panda Redefines SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Social Proof is nothing new, in fact, it&#8217;s been around for a couple or more years now and has been abused to death. We all know you can &#8220;buy&#8221; social proof by buying links, likes, shares, tweets and mentions&#8230; But, Google&#8217;s new &#8220;Panda&#8221; update takes &#8220;social proof&#8221; to a whole new level and leaves millions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inconsistency will Kill Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Call the grim reaper I think Facebook is about to need a hole in the ground. Maybe a bit premature? Perhaps. But if it carries on the way it is I expect we&#8217;ll be saying farewell soon enough. Changes are good when they work. Changes are good when the result is consistent across the board. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Say That; It&#8217;s Trademarked</title>
		<link>http://www.martinkoss.com/random-stuff/you-cant-say-that-its-trademarked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Insanity has completely replaced logic and common-sense. I&#8217;m sure that has been established already. I might have fuelled that debate a few times already (naughty me, as usual). But it gets worse. As it turns out, and if the web is to be believed (some of it is, apparently), Facebook, (I&#8217;ll assume you&#8217;ve heard of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Site for All Devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developer Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following a developer thread on WPMU for some time with interest as I develop multi-purpose websites for clients. Multi-purpose = One Site that works on Desktop / Laptop Browsers, Adapts to Integrate into Facebook Pages and auto-detects mobile devices and renders the same content perfectly for the range of small screens. The percentage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being &#8216;Nice’ is Not (always) Being Honest</title>
		<link>http://www.martinkoss.com/internet-marketing/being-nice-is-not-always-being-honest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effective internet marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet marketing advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet marketing strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody ever paid me for being Mr Nice Guy. Although I always do my best to be polite, say please and thank you, pass compliments where compliments are due, I never earned a penny by being nice – for the sake of being ‘nice’. On the contrary, however, my ‘honesty’ (while I admit that can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Steve Jobs Change The World?</title>
		<link>http://www.martinkoss.com/random-stuff/did-steve-jobs-change-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Or have we just seen the abrupt and untimely end of some of the best marketing we will ever witness? I write this with all due respect but some ambiguity &#8211; for which I make no apologies. On October 6th 2011 we have woke up to the sad news of a true technology visionary passing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish n Chips Twice Please</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To earn high praise and a solid reputation for your business you have to have more than a decent product or service at a fair price. You&#8217;ve got to be consistent with it too. One off brilliance is not enough. Most of us have had consistent quality and inconsistency and we remember them as much [...]]]></description>
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