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		<title>Crowdsourcing solutions for healthcare industry &#8211; Kaggle and the $3M Heritage Health Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heritage launched the $3 million Heritage Health Prize with one goal in mind: to develop a breakthrough algorithm that uses available patient data, including health records and claims data, to predict and prevent unnecessary hospitalizations. Heritage believes that incentivized competition – one that includes the involvement of those with passionate minds that don&#8217;t know what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmantilla.com/2011/03/28/crowdsourcing-solutions-for-healthcare-industry-kaggle-and-the-3m-heritage-health-prize/</link>
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		<title>Large-Scale Data Storage and Processing for Scientists with Hadoop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great overview of Hadoop and related &#8220;big-data&#8221; tools Large-Scale Data Storage and Processing for Scientists with Hadoop View more presentations from Evert Lammerts]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmantilla.com/2011/03/28/large-scale-data-storage-and-processing-for-scientists-with-hadoop/</link>
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		<title>Launch of DAVIDphoto.co</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to let everyone know I launched a new photo website! It&#8217;s simple, showcasing only 20 photos. The rest can be seen on my flickr stream. Thanks for viewing!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmantilla.com/2011/03/20/launch-of-davidphoto-co/</link>
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		<title>ARO Mobile &#8211; Finally &#8220;truly intelligent&#8221; smart phone software&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an idea my friends and I have been kicking around for a while&#8230; turns out another bunch of (well-funded, well-connected) people have been secretly working on this in the meantime&#8230;. So what is Aro? Currently, it’s a piece of software that runs on top of Google’s mobile Android OS. But it’s not just another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmantilla.com/2010/10/28/aro-mobile-finally-truly-intelligent-smart-phone-software/</link>
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		<title>David Beach&#8217;s Blog: Developing for Android</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like it or not, Android is huge. Creating an open source mobile platform was one of the smarter things Google has done. It&#38;apos;s too bad that they haven&#38;apos;t done that great of a job doing it. Android has succeeded despite Google. In fact it&#38;apos;s safe to say that Android is successful for one primary reason. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmantilla.com/2010/09/09/david-beachs-blog-developing-for-android/</link>
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		<title>GDC 2010: Ngmoco&#8217;s Neil Young on how freemium will change the App Store world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[interesting article on freemium model for mobile app development He and his company decided that an app was a trade with customers &#8212; customers would pay money to have the company fill out their free time. And that&#8217;s how the company attached itself to the concept of DAUs. DAUs, explained Young, are &#8220;daily active uniques&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmantilla.com/2010/09/09/gdc-2010-ngmocos-neil-young-on-how-freemium-will-change-the-app-store-world/</link>
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		<title>Fun:  New York 2010 :: Red Bull Air Race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prepare for Takeoff &#8211; New York 2010 :: Red Bull Air Race Videos.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmantilla.com/2010/06/01/this-is-intense-new-york-2010-red-bull-air-race-videos/</link>
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		<title>China: GMIC And CHINICT Tech Conferences In Beijing: Learnings From China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great article on techcrunch about a Beijing tech conference; was in town a month ago, too bad I missed it, would have been great to attend: After exploring the mobile and Internet landscapes in Shanghai and Beijing, the GeeksOnAPlane (GOAP) group (30+ techies mostly from the Silicon Valley) continued their Asian field trip to Korea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmantilla.com/2010/05/30/gmic-and-chinict-tech-conferences-in-beijing-learnings-from-china/</link>
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		<title>How Zappos was Born: Place Bets on Passionate People &#8211; The Conversation &#8211; Harvard Business Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought this was a great quote describing &#8220;bootstrapping&#8221; (quite literally too) at Zappos&#8230; Nick talked about the progress that the website had made over the past few weeks. They were already getting $2,000 worth of orders a week, and the numbers were growing. They weren&#8217;t making any money, because anytime an order was placed, Nick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmantilla.com/2010/05/24/how-zappos-was-born-place-bets-on-passionate-people-the-conversation-harvard-business-review/</link>
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		<title>Doing business in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I traveled to Beijing to meet truckers and brokers first-hand while performing market research with Xin Tian You (XTY). Xin Tian You (XTY) was founded by industry veterans with the vision to transform the Chinese transportation industry. China has 26M truckers, approximately 12M trucks (85% individually owned/operated), and hundreds of thousands of information brokers. Shipping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmantilla.com/2010/05/15/xty/</link>
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