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		<title>How to Raise Your Visibility on the Web, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to Raise Your Visibility on the Web, Part 2
We&#8217;ve talked about how getting your own domain name can give you immediate exposure on the Web in my previous article, for my friend who wants to use the Internet to find a job. It&#8217;s a first step, that provides the virtual equivalent of an online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/11/06/how-to-raise-your-visibility-on-the-web-part-2/</link>
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		<title>How to Raise Your Visibility on the Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ How to Raise Your Visibility on the Web
Recently, a friend of mine who is doing a job search asked me:
Bill&#8230; Petro&#8230; dot com, how did you come to get a .com after your name, and more importantly, how could potential employers find me more easily on the InterWeb?

And well he might ask. Aside from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/10/29/how-to-raise-your-visibility-on-the-web/</link>
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		<title>VMworld 2008: Day 2 Review &#8211; Virtually Anything is Possible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VMWORLD 2008: DAY 2 REVIEW &#8211; VIRTUALLY ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
VMworld is not just a trade show about virtualization, it uses virtual technologies and Web 2.0 technologies in a way I&#8217;ve never seen before. Here&#8217;s an example:
Blogging:
Not only is blogging encouraged, but it is honored. There is a special set of tables in the keynote auditorium [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/09/17/vmworld-2008-day-2-review-virtually-anything-is-possible/</link>
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		<title>VMworld 2008: a Veritable Verdant Venture (Green)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VMWORLD 2008: A VERITABLE VERDANT VENTURE
&#8220;Green, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about,&#8221; Larry says as he shows me the eco bag that TIG is handing out at the VMworld 2008 show. Many of the booths say &#8220;Green IT&#8221; right on their signs. Virtualization can contribute to Energy Efficient IT in a number of ways, not the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/09/17/vmworld-2008-a-veritable-verdant-venture-green/</link>
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		<title>VMworld 2008: Day 1 Keynote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VMWORLD 2008: DAY 1 KEYNOTE
Following yesterday&#8217;s opening event, both the Technology Exchange and Partner Day, the conference started in earnest today with a keynote by Paul Maritz, VMware President and CEO.
Paul is quite an articulate speaker, sounding both like a savvy businessman and an erudite professor. For many, his accent is difficult to place, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/09/16/vmworld-2008-day-1-keynote/</link>
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		<title>VMworld in Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VMWORLD IN VEGAS
This year’s VMworld, at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas September 15-18 looks to be the place where all things virtual will occur. Last year&#8217;s event in San Francisco attracted 10,000 attendees, this year&#8217;s conference in Las Vegas expects 14,000. The VMworld.com website is using Jive Software&#8217;s Clearspace social networking platform &#8212; enabling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/09/12/vmworld-in-vegas/</link>
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		<title>iPhone 3G: 2 months on, post-hype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[iPHONE 3.0: 2 MONTHS ON, POST-HYPE
I recently bought my son a new iPhone 3G, a month after they first went on sale, and buying it then was a bit less painful than buying it the first day. The first day was like attending the premier of Batman: The Dark Knight. And as the Dark Knight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/09/06/iphone-3g-2-months-on-post-hype/</link>
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		<title>iPhone 3G Launch: a Tale of Two Cities and Two Vendors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[iPHONE 3G LAUNCH: A TALE OF TWO CITIES AND TWO VENDORS
Remember the old Far Side cartoon that shows a couple thinking about each other &#8212; with the commentary &#8220;Same planet, two different worlds&#8221;? That was the sense of the first day the iPhone 3G went on sale in the US.
It seemed that the two partners [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/09/02/iphone-3g-launch-a-tale-of-two-cities-and-two-vendors/</link>
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		<title>iPhone 2.0 premiers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas came a day early for iPhone Phans. They were expecting the iPhone 2.0 firmware update on July 11, but it became available for download (if you knew where) along with the new MobileMe software (ditto) and early adopters were updating their iTunes software to version 7.7 and examining the new AppStore (discussed below), which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/07/10/iphone-20-premiers/</link>
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		<title>iPhone in the Clouds with Diamonds</title>
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iPhone and Cloud Computing

iPhone represents a phenomenal growth in user-generated data, as Joe Tucci alluded to in his EMC World 2008 keynote, when he said that by 2010:


70% will come from individual creation
85% will become the responsibility of organizations: YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Google



We know that since the advent of the iPhone just over a year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/06/18/iphone-in-the-clouds-with-diamonds/</link>
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