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		<title>Would Google destroy Digg or take it to the next level?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Digg commenter Hiji writes, &#8220;This is the beginning of the end. In a few years all the major blogs and social-media sites will be owned by large corporations, putting us right back where we started.&#8221;

	The topic of discussion is, of course, TechCrunch&#8217;s rumor that Digg will soon be acquired by Google for somewhere in the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Would Google destroy Digg or take it to the next level?", url: "http://jacobmadison.com/blog/2008/07/23/would-google-destroy-digg-or-take-it-to-the-next-level/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Google talks acquisition with Digg</title>
		<link>http://jacobmadison.com/blog/2008/07/22/google-talks-acquisition-with-digg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Madison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Social news site Digg.com, a perpetual target of acquisition rumors, is in &#8220;final negotiations&#8221; to sell itself to Google for $200 million, according to a TechCrunch report Tuesday that cited multiple sources.

The two companies have been in talks to bring Digg into the Google News group, but it could be a few weeks before the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google talks acquisition with Digg", url: "http://jacobmadison.com/blog/2008/07/22/google-talks-acquisition-with-digg/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Business Growth Guru Jon Schallert to Speak in Puyallup</title>
		<link>http://jacobmadison.com/blog/2008/07/22/business-growth-guru-jon-schallert-to-speak-in-puyallup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Madison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	PUYALLUP, WA &#8211; This past May, six Puyallup business owners traveled to Colorado to hear business growth guru Jon Schallert share ideas to grow, market, and promote their businesses. Shaun Nestor, of Coffee Bar in downtown Puyallup, was one of the attendees and wants every area business owner to hear what Schallert has to say.

	&#8220;Jon [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Business Growth Guru Jon Schallert to Speak in Puyallup", url: "http://jacobmadison.com/blog/2008/07/22/business-growth-guru-jon-schallert-to-speak-in-puyallup/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>They Made Us Hyper-Connected, Now What?</title>
		<link>http://jacobmadison.com/blog/2008/07/17/they-made-us-hyper-connected-now-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Madison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	I&#8217;ve spent the past few years on Facebook and various social networks. While I had been using the internet daily since middle school, social networks were really what helped me increase my ability to stay in touch with the everyday person I interacted with. In college, you go out to a party and thanks to [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "They Made Us Hyper-Connected, Now What?", url: "http://jacobmadison.com/blog/2008/07/17/they-made-us-hyper-connected-now-what/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>VCs Calling it Quits on Facebook?</title>
		<link>http://jacobmadison.com/blog/2008/07/17/vcs-calling-it-quits-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Madison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Looking for funding for the next hot Facebook application?  You aren&#8217;t going to find it.  So claims Nicholas Carlson who quotes an executive at one of the Facebook application firms as saying &#8220;It would be insane for a new developer&#8221; to begin creating new apps on the platform. This exact same issue was [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "VCs Calling it Quits on Facebook?", url: "http://jacobmadison.com/blog/2008/07/17/vcs-calling-it-quits-on-facebook/" });</script>]]></description>
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