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		<title>PR quagmire: Oprah, Zach Anner, and the unpredictability of online polls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oprah cheated a handicapped man out of a deserved win.
That&#8217;s the potential headline, anyway. After Oprah put up a show as the prize in a contest on her site, Reddit and other sites championed an unlikely candidate: A very funny guy with cerebral palsy named Zach Anner.

Anner, whose contest video included the quote, &#8220;No Atlantis is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/07/pr-quagmire-oprah-zach-anner-and-the-unpredictability-of-online-polls/</link>
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		<title>Building your web development team: Meet the warrior, rogue and mage.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In roleplaying games (RPGs), player classes can usually be boiled down to three basic roles: The warrior, the rogue, and the mage. In web development, we see the same three basic archetypes.
The Warrior
As the heavy hitter (he&#8217;s the guy with the big ax in the picture), the warrior ends up doing a lot of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/05/warrior-rogue-mag/</link>
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		<title>Match Strike launches HootCourse</title>
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StrikePad has been a bit quiet lately. If you&#8217;re wondering why, it&#8217;s because we just launched our new project, HootCourse, into a public beta about two weeks ago. We&#8217;ve been working at a fevered pace since then to get everything just right and deploy a few fixes.
Now we&#8217;re looking for feedback and bugs. If you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/05/match-strike-launches-hootcourse/</link>
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		<title>Introducing the iPan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple just sent over their latest product, the iPan, and I&#8217;ve gotten to spend a couple of days with it now. Here are my impressions.

It&#8217;s all about taste.
Ramen noodles are the lifeblood of my small startup. Their ease of preparation and low, low price make them ideal for bootstrapping. I had perfected my cooking technique [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/04/introducing-the-ipan/</link>
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		<title>HTML5&#8217;s missing piece: The disclosure tag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a worst case blogging scenario: The FTC have pegged you as a violator of their disclosure guidelines. You now face $11,000 in fines per sponsored post. Or, worse yet&#8211; you don&#8217;t live in the states, but your country has recently implemented a policy that makes the FTC fines seem like parking tickets.
Wouldn&#8217;t it be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/03/html5s-missing-piece-the-disclosure-tag/</link>
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		<title>Rowfeeder might be the smartest tool yet for social media monitoring in public relations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a chance to meet up with the guys at Untitled Startup a few days ago. They were working on adding some cool stuff to their own site. What really caught my eye, though, was their app Rowfeeder.
Rowfeeder is like a lot of apps. It tracks keyword mentions on Twitter. The difference, however, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/03/rowfeeder/</link>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s fountain of youth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Facebook is rolling out a new layout. If the story doesn&#8217;t sound familiar, it should.
You can guess the rest. Some people got it early. It has mixed reviews. There&#8217;s a facebook group with thousands of people unhappy with the changes. And the latest step: People groaning that it&#8217;s already happening again. (The irony of including this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/02/facebooks-fountain-of-youth/</link>
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		<title>How Apple hides the iPad&#8217;s dirty little secret with an optical illusion.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the iPad as you (probably) haven&#8217;t seen it before:
Like many others, at one point I found myself asking, &#8220;Wait&#8230; it&#8217;s a 4:3 screen?&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t because I was disappointed in the new specs; this was hours after I had seen actual images of the device. &#8220;I could have sworn it was widescreen!&#8221;
I wasn&#8217;t quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/01/how-apple-hides-the-ipads-dirty-little-secret-with-an-optical-illusion/</link>
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		<title>Intentionally unprofessional: Design techniques that could backfire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the worst things about design is that you can put a lot of work into something that comes out looking like, well&#8230; nobody put a lot of work into it at all. Here are a few techniques that could make you look like an amateur, even if you know what you&#8217;re doing.
Blur
Blurring is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/01/intentionally-unprofessional-design-techniques-that-could-backfire/</link>
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		<title>Bad Practice of the Month: First-party pop-ups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t too long ago that the Internet collectively suffered through pop-up advertisements. They were everywhere. Pop-ups had pop-ups.
Thankfully the whole mess has been taken under control. Even the oldest browsers in use today have pretty good pop-up protection, saving users from the deluge of &#8220;Click the monkey&#8221; and &#8220;Buy this pack of smileys.&#8221;
But pop-ups [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2009/12/bad-practice-of-the-month-first-party-pop-ups/</link>
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