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	<title>ZAT - notes on Z to A Travel</title>
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		<title>A new kind of startup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As some of you know, we have been looking for a new way to form a startup, and it is starting to come together.  We are trying to figure out how to build a sustainable startup.
There are a number of problems with the way that current startups are organized. In order to solve these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zat.com/blog/2008/04/21/a-new-kind-of-startup/</link>
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		<title>Almost Perfect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently spending a month at the Banff Centre, attending a residency called &#8220;Almost Perfect&#8221; that is dealing with Location-based media.  Have been spending time programming GPS-enabled PDAs, and having deep theoretical discussions about theories of space and place.
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		<link>http://zat.com/blog/2007/11/24/almost-perfect/</link>
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		<title>Conferences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently spent just over a week down in the SF area attending conferences.
First up was the O&#8217;Reilly &#8220;Where 2.0&#8221; conference in San Jose.
Right after that was the Google Developer Day.
Last, but not least was WhereCamp, held at the Yahoo! campus.
The first one (Where 2.0) was a normal conference, and fairly expensive, but the other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zat.com/blog/2007/06/28/conferences/</link>
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		<title>presentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a 20 slide presentation that I&#8217;ve uploaded for your entertainment.  You can view it at http://zat.com/presentations/ZAT1.swf &#8212; sorry about the size (2.8MB).
&#8211;wm
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		<link>http://zat.com/blog/2007/05/29/presentation/</link>
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		<title>Touring with only the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article in Slate Magazine Can Wiki Travel? where the reporter dared to travel to Thailand without taking a guidebook!  Instead, they were going to try to get all their information from the Web.  How did it work out?  In their words &#8220;the result was very nearly a disaster.&#8221;
This is exactly the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zat.com/blog/2007/05/29/touring-with-only-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Getting ready to launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ZAT is coming along nicely.  There are three of us programming now (if you&#8217;re interested in helping, let me know!).  There are lots of features that aren&#8217;t implemented yet, but the basic functionality is there. We hope to launch soon.
I&#8217;m attending several conferences this month.  Earlier this month was Innotech, then WebVisions. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zat.com/blog/2007/05/11/getting-ready-to-launch/</link>
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		<title>Ambiguous city names</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question is: what countries in the world &#8212; other than in the US &#8212; allow more than one city to have the same name?  In the US, city names are only required to be unique to the state, so there are quite a few cities that have the same name (Kansas City, MO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zat.com/blog/2007/02/25/ambiguous-city-names/</link>
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		<title>Status</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things slowed down for a while over the holidays, but now they are really coming together.  I have the main search page working, although I&#8217;m busy rewriting the UI.  Even so, you can really get a feel for the power of this.  I&#8217;m particularly happy with the way the tagging engine (RaTags) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zat.com/blog/2007/02/23/status-2/</link>
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		<title>PHP?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I ran into an old co-worker (a fairly well known computer expert).  He is working on a new web app, and it was interested that his team decided to program it in PHP, just like we did for ZAT.  It is funny that, as software engineers, we feel a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zat.com/blog/2006/12/26/php/</link>
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		<title>More about Craigslist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/craigslist-meets-the-capitalists/?ex=1166504400&#038;en=89c1ba75fe6be330&#038;ei=5070&#038;emc=eta1
Jim Buckmaster, the CEO of Craiglist, gave a talk at the UBS global media conference in New York, in front of a crowd heavy with investment bankers.  They could not understand.  The meeting was described as &#8220;a culture clash of near-epic proportions&#8221;.
I posted a comment on the above article &#8212; number 110 if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zat.com/blog/2006/12/12/more-about-craigslist/</link>
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