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		<title>By: winter123</title>
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		<dc:creator>winter123</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: angelia110</title>
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		<dc:creator>angelia110</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;h2 align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;Costs For Uggs--What It Costs?&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;--&gt;Are you lusting after a few (or even more) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Uggs&lt;/a&gt; (UGG Australia) boots and if so, you&#039;re in good company, as girls and women of all ages, especially with the simple, slipper-like design of these sheepskin &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ugg boots&lt;/a&gt;, which are relatively easy and very comfortable to wear. And they appear to be affected. Some men are also jumping on the trend and luxury &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UGGs&lt;/a&gt;? Australia, the brand also offers a range of contemporary styles for them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;--&gt;Could you mind giving everyone loves from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ugg-boots&lt;/a&gt;? There are so many types of uggs, ugg &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/ugg-bailey-button-c-178.html?zenid=847c0f495b87cb43928dcc19d09f4019&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bailey button&lt;/a&gt;,ugg &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/ugg-classic-tall-c-162.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;classic tall&lt;/a&gt;, ugg &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/ugg-classic-short-c-160.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;classic short&lt;/a&gt;, ugg &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/ugg-classic-cardy-c-161.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;classic cardy&lt;/a&gt;. How to choose your favorite? Or do you really want to one uggs regardless its style? Despite their design is  awkward and slipper-lile, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Uggs&lt;/a&gt; is  one of the few stations that are of general interest, have argued that cross  generational lines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;--&gt;Young people, students and young mothers  and the Middle Ages, the original Black &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/ugg-ultra-tall-c-167.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ultra  Tall UGG Boots&lt;/a&gt;, seem pulled the fleecy-lined &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;boots&lt;/a&gt; that are manufactured in Australia, with the best materials.  Are you sure that your feet warm in winter without socks, and cool in summer so  that is more versatile too? If no, hurry up to take one &lt;strong&gt;ugg boots &lt;/strong&gt;on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodugg.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;goodugg uk sale&lt;/a&gt; ! That&#039;s why we see people wear them in schools,  supermarkets, on the slopes and even in the most popular beaches in the United  States and abroad. Many surfers also use uggs to keep their feet warm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;--&gt;What do you really care about? Is its price  or quality, or you just following the general trend? You know what are you  thinking in your heart!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&lt;h2 align=&#8221;center&#8221;&gt;Costs For Uggs&#8211;What It Costs?&lt;/h2&gt;
<p>&#8211;&gt;Are you lusting after a few (or even more) <a href="http://www.goodugg.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Uggs</a> (UGG Australia) boots and if so, you&#39;re in good company, as girls and women of all ages, especially with the simple, slipper-like design of these sheepskin <a href="http://www.goodugg.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">ugg boots</a>, which are relatively easy and very comfortable to wear. And they appear to be affected. Some men are also jumping on the trend and luxury <a href="http://www.goodugg.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">UGGs</a>? Australia, the brand also offers a range of contemporary styles for them.</p>
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<p>&#8211;&gt;Young people, students and young mothers  and the Middle Ages, the original Black <a href="http://www.goodugg.co.uk/ugg-ultra-tall-c-167.html" rel="nofollow">Ultra  Tall UGG Boots</a>, seem pulled the fleecy-lined <a href="http://www.goodugg.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">boots</a> that are manufactured in Australia, with the best materials.  Are you sure that your feet warm in winter without socks, and cool in summer so  that is more versatile too? If no, hurry up to take one <strong>ugg boots </strong>on <a href="http://www.goodugg.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">goodugg uk sale</a> ! That&#39;s why we see people wear them in schools,  supermarkets, on the slopes and even in the most popular beaches in the United  States and abroad. Many surfers also use uggs to keep their feet warm.</p>
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<p>&#8211;&gt;What do you really care about? Is its price  or quality, or you just following the general trend? You know what are you  thinking in your heart!</p>
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		<title>By: The creative capabilities of crowdsourcing</title>
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		<dc:creator>The creative capabilities of crowdsourcing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] formed out of shared interests and passions.  There are resources available—such as Bing and Aardvark—that enable companies to solicit customer and prospect ideas directly, evaluate their ideas [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] formed out of shared interests and passions.  There are resources available—such as Bing and Aardvark—that enable companies to solicit customer and prospect ideas directly, evaluate their ideas [...]</p>
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		<title>By: chelseysalisbury</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2009/08/28/aardvark-makes-crowdsourcing-your-social-graph-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-22034</link>
		<dc:creator>chelseysalisbury</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.centripitel.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.centripitel.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For awesome phone service for your business!!</description>
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<p>For awesome phone service for your business!!</p>
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		<title>By: Internet Marketing, Strategy &#38; Technology Links &#8211; August 31, 2009 &#124; Sazbean</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2009/08/28/aardvark-makes-crowdsourcing-your-social-graph-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-22004</link>
		<dc:creator>Internet Marketing, Strategy &#38; Technology Links &#8211; August 31, 2009 &#124; Sazbean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Aardvark Makes Crowdsourcing Your Social Graph Easy (Social Media Explorer) [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Aardvark Makes Crowdsourcing Your Social Graph Easy (Social Media Explorer) [...]</p>
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		<title>By: JasonFalls</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2009/08/28/aardvark-makes-crowdsourcing-your-social-graph-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-22008</link>
		<dc:creator>JasonFalls</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice tip, Joe. Thanks for that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice tip, Joe. Thanks for that.</p>
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		<title>By: JasonFalls</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2009/08/28/aardvark-makes-crowdsourcing-your-social-graph-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-22007</link>
		<dc:creator>JasonFalls</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, Alison. I&#039;m sure more will continue to chime in. Thanks for the work you do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, Alison. I&#39;m sure more will continue to chime in. Thanks for the work you do.</p>
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		<title>By: JasonFalls</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2009/08/28/aardvark-makes-crowdsourcing-your-social-graph-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-22006</link>
		<dc:creator>JasonFalls</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Awesome ideas, Azam. You&#039;re right, Aardvark can certainly start down that road. I sure hope you can find a developer to mash your idea up with some technology. Nice work. Thanks for sharing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awesome ideas, Azam. You&#39;re right, Aardvark can certainly start down that road. I sure hope you can find a developer to mash your idea up with some technology. Nice work. Thanks for sharing.</p>
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		<title>By: JasonFalls</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2009/08/28/aardvark-makes-crowdsourcing-your-social-graph-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-22005</link>
		<dc:creator>JasonFalls</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice try Josh. This tool has nothing to do with document sharing. I don&#039;t mind folks pointing out good tools, even if it&#039;s their own, so I&#039;m going to leave your comment up. But this is crossing the line into spam in my opinion. Thanks for the link. Find more relevant ways to communicate in the future, please.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice try Josh. This tool has nothing to do with document sharing. I don&#39;t mind folks pointing out good tools, even if it&#39;s their own, so I&#39;m going to leave your comment up. But this is crossing the line into spam in my opinion. Thanks for the link. Find more relevant ways to communicate in the future, please.</p>
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		<title>By: Joshanderson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joshanderson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those are very good tools, however, in many cases those platforms are used just to allow the team to review the same document together in real-time and &quot;be on the same page&quot;.&lt;br&gt;The recently launched free site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.showdocument.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.showdocument.com&lt;/a&gt; does exactly that, document sharing and web meeting for friends and colleagues.&lt;br&gt;It allows co-browsing on any document, user uploads a document and invites friends to view it with him live&lt;br&gt;All the participants in the session see each others&#039; drawing, highlights,  etc.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Josh</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those are very good tools, however, in many cases those platforms are used just to allow the team to review the same document together in real-time and &#8220;be on the same page&#8221;.<br />The recently launched free site <a href="http://www.showdocument.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.showdocument.com</a> does exactly that, document sharing and web meeting for friends and colleagues.<br />It allows co-browsing on any document, user uploads a document and invites friends to view it with him live<br />All the participants in the session see each others&#39; drawing, highlights,  etc.</p>
<p>Josh</p>
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		<title>By: AzamKhan</title>
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		<dc:creator>AzamKhan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is great. I think Aardvark has a real opportunity here. A few years back I always wondered how a system like this could exist. Although I was as tech-savvy as Helen Keller would be at America&#039;s Best Dance Crew, I realized there&#039;s a huge opportunity for systems like this - but more with niches in mind. I had no resources nor was the social web ready for something like this so I could never act on it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Since I would like to see this go to fruition, I&#039;ll just describe it right here.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Imagine you&#039;re a high school student or a college student. You have no clue what you wanna do or maybe some clue. You ask your friends and all you hear is &#039;well im gonna be a lawyer&#039;, &#039;im gonna be a doctor&#039;. What do you do? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is a core issue for many people that people at Aardvark can start (or if you wanna provide the back-end I could help ;)   &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The ideal situation would be this. As a student I&#039;d wanna know all the different types of professions I can get into based on what my network or my network&#039;s network has done. If I am a biology student and focusing on biochemistry, I should be able to see what others that also did a biochem focus are now doing and be able to connect with them, IF they are willing to be a resource. There could be some incentives added to being a resource but that&#039;s not worth delving into right now.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It&#039;s like distributed intelligence. I&#039;d say step this model up a notch higher. Instead of me just connecting to 1 person on a 1v1 conversation, I should also be able to speak with many people at a time and they should be able to be resources at the time I need them. The value of each contact should change based on my own progression. If for example after doing a focus on biochem I start shifting more towards marketing, then the people I should be talking to should also shift. There would be an algorithm that would define the value of a network contact based on that person&#039;s: willing to be a resource, activity level / responsiveness, how many others found their advice helpful on aggregate, and perhaps some kind of success level (this is subjective).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It would be like LinkedIn mixed with Aardvark with a twist (because instead of just asking questions and getting answers, you&#039;d want to keep in touch). Whoever tackles this, let me know. It&#039;d be amazing to have a tool like this.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Of course, i&#039;m guessing Aardvark is going to have niche sub communities. the big challenge seems in adequately rewarding contributors and resources. I&#039;d maybe suggest checking out principles of Amy Jo Kim&#039;s Game Mechanics to make this an overall engaging experience.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is great. I think Aardvark has a real opportunity here. A few years back I always wondered how a system like this could exist. Although I was as tech-savvy as Helen Keller would be at America&#39;s Best Dance Crew, I realized there&#39;s a huge opportunity for systems like this &#8211; but more with niches in mind. I had no resources nor was the social web ready for something like this so I could never act on it.</p>
<p>Since I would like to see this go to fruition, I&#39;ll just describe it right here.</p>
<p>Imagine you&#39;re a high school student or a college student. You have no clue what you wanna do or maybe some clue. You ask your friends and all you hear is &#39;well im gonna be a lawyer&#39;, &#39;im gonna be a doctor&#39;. What do you do? </p>
<p>This is a core issue for many people that people at Aardvark can start (or if you wanna provide the back-end I could help <img src='http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />    </p>
<p>The ideal situation would be this. As a student I&#39;d wanna know all the different types of professions I can get into based on what my network or my network&#39;s network has done. If I am a biology student and focusing on biochemistry, I should be able to see what others that also did a biochem focus are now doing and be able to connect with them, IF they are willing to be a resource. There could be some incentives added to being a resource but that&#39;s not worth delving into right now.</p>
<p>It&#39;s like distributed intelligence. I&#39;d say step this model up a notch higher. Instead of me just connecting to 1 person on a 1v1 conversation, I should also be able to speak with many people at a time and they should be able to be resources at the time I need them. The value of each contact should change based on my own progression. If for example after doing a focus on biochem I start shifting more towards marketing, then the people I should be talking to should also shift. There would be an algorithm that would define the value of a network contact based on that person&#39;s: willing to be a resource, activity level / responsiveness, how many others found their advice helpful on aggregate, and perhaps some kind of success level (this is subjective).</p>
<p>It would be like LinkedIn mixed with Aardvark with a twist (because instead of just asking questions and getting answers, you&#39;d want to keep in touch). Whoever tackles this, let me know. It&#39;d be amazing to have a tool like this.</p>
<p>Of course, i&#39;m guessing Aardvark is going to have niche sub communities. the big challenge seems in adequately rewarding contributors and resources. I&#39;d maybe suggest checking out principles of Amy Jo Kim&#39;s Game Mechanics to make this an overall engaging experience.</p>
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