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	<link>http://www.chrishoover.org</link>
	<description>Chaos is not a business model: thoughts about next generation telecom, with occasional off-topic commentary for variety.</description>
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		<title>4 important ways apps will change policy and charging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Operators are scrambling to establish a position in the value chain of mobile broadband.  One important driver for this, as every presentation in the industry now shows, is increased demand for bandwidth.  In particular, flat revenue relative to that demand. The graph representing this has been presented ad nauseam over the past few years.   With [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/business-models/four-important-ways-apps-will-change-policy-and-charging/</link>
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		<title>I helpfully define the &#8220;Cloud.&#8221;  Larry Ellison take note.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it’s not the “Internet” writ large, at least in my opinion.&#160; Larry Ellison, take note, you might find this helpful (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0) Larry’s right, though.&#160; The “Cloud” has become this catch-all term that means everything, and therefore nothing.&#160; So I’ve got a suggestion. I submit that a “cloud” service is one that was traditionally hosted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/cloud/the-cloud-defined/</link>
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		<title>Best article yet on net neutrality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What irritates me about American politics&#8230; well, what irritates me most about American politics, is how closely it parallels sports fandom. People associate themselves with some ideological &#8220;team&#8221; or another (&#8220;Liberal,&#8221; &#8220;Republican,&#8221; &#8220;Tea Party,&#8221; whatever) and thoughtlessly support any initiative championed by the team because they are fans. See http://nyti.ms/cNnzSz &#8211; But David P. Barash, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/net-neutrality/best-position-yet-on-net-neutrality/</link>
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		<title>Reason Magazine notices the Kindle is not “net neutral”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PC World quotes Peter Suderman, an associate editor with Reason Magazine in Los Angeles, on his observation that the Kindle provides limited functionality and therefore is not &#8220;net neutral.&#8221; http://bit.ly/cdYELi &#8220;It&#8217;s a business model that relies, in fact, on discrimination,&#8221; he said this morning on On Point, a talk show aired by WBUR, a National [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/net-neutrality/reason-magazine-notices-the-kindle-is-not-net-neutral/</link>
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		<title>I broke Google.  How is that possible?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese colleague just sent me some amazing tea as a gift. I&#8217;d love to purchase more for myself, so I did a Google search for &#8220;Puerh Tea,&#8221; which I thought would result in the usual tea.com type listings. Instead, I was consistently able to &#8220;break&#8221; Google, no matter how many times I submitted the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/geekiness/i-broke-google-how-is-that-possible/</link>
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		<title>Why I don’t invest in Yahoo.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m looking for a receipt to print out for my expense report. I purchased a UI mockup application called Balsamiq. Here I&#8217;m searching for &#8220;Balsamiq&#8221;. No luck. So I go look for it manually. It&#8217;s right there, on top, with &#8220;Balsamiq&#8221; as both the sender and subject. I think this explains why I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/geekiness/why-i-dont-invest-in-yahoo/</link>
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		<title>Top five reasons Singapore has the best airport in the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I travel to Southeast Asia on business every so often. If I have a choice, I’ll always connect through Changi airport in Singapore. There are lots of nice things about the airport; it’s got a nice transit hotel, a gym, amazing shops, and reasonable food. But there are some things that set it apart. Top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/geekiness/the-best-airport-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Random Quote in Telephony online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere toward the bottom.  I didn&#8217;t mean wireless carriers exclusively, my point was that all operators have an inherent advantage over content providers.  But point made for me, I suppose&#8230; Finding telecoms link in the value chain.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/narcissism/random-quote-in-telephony-online/</link>
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		<title>Net Neutrality and reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting post in Financial Times today. Personally, I think that net neutrality will force operators to innovate a bit &#8212; this isn&#8217;t about discriminating against heaviest users, it&#8217;s about changing the business model from flat rate all-you-can-eat access to one in which heavy usage isn&#8217;t a problem that requires random throttling. Operators should offer access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/net-neutrality/net-neutrality-and-reality/</link>
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		<title>The telecom subscriber model will change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just completed a guest blog post at Telco 2.0 pointing out that the SLAs involved in new business models, coupled with the fundamental driver behind those business models (bandwidth as a scarce and valuable resource), will put wireless operators in a position of allocating resources selectively. That is, in times of high demand, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/business-models/the-telecom-subscriber-model-will-change/</link>
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