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		<title>Classmates.com automatic renewal scam</title>
		<link>http://jccameron.com/2009/10/29/classmates-com-automatic-renewal-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: Stay away from Classmates.com and do not fall for any of their tricks to get you to sign-up as a gold member.
Last year I upgraded my Classmates.com subscription from the free one to the paid one simply to see what the difference was for paid members.  As we were building the VendorCity service and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jccameron.com&blog=4021831&post=185&subd=jccameron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use Topify Securely</title>
		<link>http://jccameron.com/2009/05/02/how-to-use-topify-securely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 14:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Cameron</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jccameron.com/?p=173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Topify is a great new service to make your Twitter life easier and more efficient.  However, it requires you to change your Twitter email to a custom Topify address which, for many people, is a bit too risky. Here are two approaches you can take to use Topify without giving up complete control of your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jccameron.com&blog=4021831&post=173&subd=jccameron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Topify Makes Twitter Following Easier</title>
		<link>http://jccameron.com/2009/05/01/topify-makes-twitter-following-easier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 00:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Cameron</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jccameron.com/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Topify is a great Twitter tool to help manage your follower requests. It saves you a lot of time and removes a lot of the headaches associated with new Twitter followers.  The three main features are:

Improved twitter email notifications
Follow back users with a simple email reply
Reply to direct messages via email

I&#8217;ve been using the service for only a short time, but it has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jccameron.com&blog=4021831&post=140&subd=jccameron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome</title>
		<link>http://jccameron.com/2009/04/23/time-to-improvise-adapt-and-overcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Cameron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Most people in the entrepreneurial world feel that startups succeed or fail based upon the quality of the team running the show and their ability to handle the challenges that come their way.  It&#8217;s not the idea, or the industry, or the marketing plan &#8212; it&#8217;s THE TEAM.
I subscribe to this philosophy and firmly believe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jccameron.com&blog=4021831&post=124&subd=jccameron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fellow Entrepreneurs – Don’t Miss the Forest for the Trees</title>
		<link>http://jccameron.com/2009/04/21/follow-entrepeneurs-dont-miss-the-forest-for-the-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Cameron</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jccameron.com/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reminded last week how critical it is to step back and reassess difficult or challenging situations when a simple technology problem at home took far too long to resolve.  This is true for your personal relationships, family life, and, most certainly, any efforts to build and run a startup. 
What drove home this reminder was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jccameron.com&blog=4021831&post=111&subd=jccameron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LinkedIn is Greedy</title>
		<link>http://jccameron.com/2009/04/14/linkedin-is-greedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Cameron</dc:creator>
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LinkedIn is greedy.  They work hard to get you to upgrade to a premium account and then make it nearly impossible for you to downgrade back to the free version.   
They intentionally hide the steps to downgrade, make those steps as manual as possible, and don&#8217;t remind you that you are paying for their premium services.  All together, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jccameron.com&blog=4021831&post=83&subd=jccameron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Grants over $10K in Free Advertising</title>
		<link>http://jccameron.com/2009/03/23/google-grants-overs-10k-in-free-advertising/</link>
		<comments>http://jccameron.com/2009/03/23/google-grants-overs-10k-in-free-advertising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Cameron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Non-profits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, you come across little things that really surprise you.  Today I discovered Google Grants, a Google program which provides non-profits with up to $10,000 (that&#8217;s right, ten thousand dollars) of free advertising each month.  Beg, borrow, or steal someone with some technical and/or marketing experience to get this setup for your non-profit because, if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jccameron.com&blog=4021831&post=70&subd=jccameron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Changes Not Fully Tested</title>
		<link>http://jccameron.com/2009/03/23/facebook-changes-not-fully-tested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Cameron</dc:creator>
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		<title>New Gadget: iRobot Verro 500 PowerScrub</title>
		<link>http://jccameron.com/2008/07/31/new-gadget-irobot-verro-500-poewerscrub/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Cameron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>
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Disclaimer: My company was involved in the software design / interface for the iRobot ConnectR product. 
I love having a pool but one of the things that I have never been particularly interested in, or honestly, very good at, is cleaning it.  When we first bought the house 10 years ago, we looked into a pool robot but most of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jccameron.com&blog=4021831&post=34&subd=jccameron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Treating failure as the best opportunity to learn</title>
		<link>http://jccameron.com/2008/07/24/treating-failure-as-the-best-opportunity-to-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Cameron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I came across this great article by Roger Ehrenberg:

Monitor110: A Post Mortem

It is definitely one of the most objective and well-written startup post mortems I have read by a member of the actual team.  His list of Seven Deadly Sins, which in my opinion is not complete but a great list nonetheless, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jccameron.com&blog=4021831&post=26&subd=jccameron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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