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		<title>Why I&#8217;m probably not heading to anymore Irish Tech Summits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone put it quite well here today (Des) when he said &#8220;There seems to be more people who want to give advice about startups than there are actual people running startups&#8221;.  This was spurned on by a conversation about the time-wasting that can be done in startups. Attending seminars such as the Dublin Web Summit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimscollins.com/why-im-probably-not-heading-to-anymore-irish-tech-summits/</link>
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		<title>Mobile trends 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I liked the recent Fred Wilson post on building better social graphs and it got me thinking about where mobile is going. This line in particular &#8220;For Microsoft it was open source and the Internet. For Google, it appears that it may be social. For Facebook, it appears that it may be mobile&#8221;. Fred&#8217;s interpretation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimscollins.com/mobile-trends-2011/</link>
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		<title>Kinect and Personalisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Kinect, as everyone is aware, has facial and gesture recognition built in. Assuming all this works as it should, it heralds a new era of interaction which could be amazingly well execute or a massive flop. And in a much bigger way than the Wii or the Playstation dildo controller. Facial Recognition Well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimscollins.com/kinect-and-personalisation/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 64-bit VCVARSALL.bat problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate the fact installing anything on my windows 7 64-bit machine is akin to peeling my nails off. Pain on a grand scale. This could be the worlds new form of torture for programmers. Scenario: Tried to easy_install Scrappy &#8211; a web scraper for python Get the &#8220;Unable to find VCVarsall.bat&#8221; despite the fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimscollins.com/windows-7-64-bit-vcvarsall-bat-problem/</link>
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		<title>Google app engine &#8211; django vs grails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought i&#8217;d do a small write up on how I&#8217;ve found the Google app engine. Google App Engine (GAE) (terrible acronym), is Google&#8217;s cloud offering for developers. It looks like it was designed to support developers who can&#8217;t afford a VPS or who want to test out some simple apps. It has some pretty sweet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimscollins.com/google-app-engine-django-vs-grails/</link>
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		<title>Pivoting like a pivert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hmmm so where do you start when you&#8217;re not an industry expert? This is something I find myself asking alot. You see the grey haired entrepreneurs (i.e. the more successful ones) and think who am I to challenge that? 30+ years of top level industry experience and how can I possibly compete? I still don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimscollins.com/pivoting-like-a-pivert/</link>
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		<title>Startup Weekend Dublin 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Without being too critical, actually fuck that it's my blog, some of the pitches were so Mickey Mouse they were  borderline hilarious.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimscollins.com/startup-weekend-dublin-2010/</link>
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		<title>Getting from &#8220;I want to start a company&#8221; to starting a company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think people are generally blinded by the whole startup thing. To most people starting a company is like a passport to wealth without figuring how the whole thing works. I&#8217;m far from knowing anything about starting a company, hell we&#8217;re still trying to figure out why we&#8217;re doing it ourselves but it&#8217;s pretty clear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimscollins.com/getting-from-i-want-to-start-a-company-to-starting-a-company/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft not evil either &#8220;shocker&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well it finally happened. My Xbox has lived through many assaults, people falling over it, falling sideways, drumsticks fired at it, sitting in a box in a shed for a year, travelling from the UK to Ireland in the back of a van. But alas, it has departed today. After 4 years of time wasting, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimscollins.com/microsoft-not-evil-either-shocker/</link>
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		<title>Social graphs and why they&#8217;re being labelled &#8220;evil&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is in direct response to the mighty Fred Wilsons post on http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/one-graph-to-rule-them-all.html. For the past decade sorting sites have been cropping up, Reddit, Digg, Twitter, Diigo, Technorati, StumpleUpon which all spread a different type of message. Some are tech focussed, some are corporate focussed, some deal with other communities. This makes sense. People need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimscollins.com/social-graphs-and-why-theyre-being-labelled-evil/</link>
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