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		<title>&#8220;Great vampire squid&#8221; wraps itself around The Social Network.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The "great vampire squid" known as Goldman Sachs and invested $475 million in Facebook and it setting up a "special purpose vehicle" to let its clients indirectly invest in Facebook. Will the SEC allow it?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jjprojects.com/2011/01/04/vampire-squid-wraps-around-the-social-network/</link>
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		<title>New hedge fund to use Twitter to predict stock market.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to my recent post on social media in relation to financial matters, but quite different, is appears that a new British hedge fund in planning to track Twitter in order to attempt to predict the direction of the stock market. The initiative appears to be based on a recent paper by the University of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jjprojects.com/2010/12/22/new-hedge-fund-to-use-twitter-to-predict-stock-market/</link>
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		<title>FCC approves net neutrality rules – good compromise or welcoming your new ISP overlords?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted new rules in relation to net neutrality, or how internet providers handle traffic and various services. Democrats on the panel have voted to approve the new enforceable net neutrality rules, which will restrict companies such as AT&#38;T, Verizon and Comcast from blocking access to content unfavorable to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jjprojects.com/2010/12/21/fcc-approves-net-neutrality-rules-%e2%80%93-good-compromise-or-welcoming-your-new-isp-overlords/</link>
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		<title>Twitter reveals Top Trending Topics and Most Powerful Tweets for 2010.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In what&#8217;s becoming an end of year tradition, if you can call two years in a row a tradition, Twitter has revealed its Top Trending Topics for the year. The company has also compiled a list of the Most Retweeted tweets, what it asserts to have been the 10 Most Powerful Tweets of 2010, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jjprojects.com/2010/12/15/twitter-reveals-top-trending-topics-and-most-powerful-tweets-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>Is social media being used to manipulate financial markets?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In India, the financial regulator, SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India), is planning to use a new suite of software tools to analyse conversations about financial markets in social media. The software will analyse networks such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as blogs and more traditional social media such as forums. It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jjprojects.com/2010/12/13/is-social-media-being-used-to-manipulate-financial-markets/</link>
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		<title>Internet war, what is it good for?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday (US time), Dave Winer published a post entitled &#8216;Are we starting a full-out war on the Internet?&#8216;. This may seem a bit extreme or at least overly dramatic to many, but given the goings on in relation to Wikileaks, and the ongoing fallout from the release US Embassy Cables, it has certainly given [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jjprojects.com/2010/12/09/internet-war-what-is-it-good-for/</link>
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		<title>Twitter and Facebook have not abandoned Wikileaks, yet.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, its DNS server and its Swiss bank account have all abandoned Wikileaks, presumably after Senator Joe Lieberman called on corporations to stop doing business with Wikileaks. However, two notable outlets for the organisation&#8217;s communications still appear to be accessible as I write this post: Facebook and Twitter. Are Twitter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jjprojects.com/2010/12/08/twitter-and-facebook-have-not-abandoned-wikileaks-yet/</link>
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		<title>Google Earth Engine launched to aid global environmental monitoring and measurement.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has launched Google Earth Engine at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, currently underway in Cancun, Mexico. The new platform enables global monitoring and measurement of changes in Earth&#8217;s environment. Google Earth Engine will allow scientists to use Google&#8217;s huge infrastructure to analyse imagery (running analyses across thousands of computers), in order to study [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jjprojects.com/2010/12/07/google-earth-engine-launched-to-aid-global-environmental-monitoring-and-measurement/</link>
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		<title>Wikileaks is rocking our institutions to the core.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d have to have been living under a rock not to notice the massive and continuing fallout from the latest Wikileaks release of diplomatic &#8216;cables&#8217;, on top of the Iraq war logs released not long ago. Add to this the probability that Wikileaks will release documents that will significantly impact some major banks (and other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jjprojects.com/2010/12/01/wikileaks-is-rocking-our-institutions-to-the-core/</link>
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		<title>Is Foursquare about to offer image uploads at last?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do these tweets just now from Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley mean Foursquare is about to offer image uploads as part of an app update, at last? I certainly hope so. I think it really needs it to keep people&#8217;s interest up over the longer term. I know he&#8217;s said before they have been planning to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jjprojects.com/2010/11/30/is-foursquare-about-to-offer-image-uploads-at-last/</link>
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