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><channel><title>Chris Pirillo &#187; friend</title> <atom:link href="http://chris.pirillo.com/tag/friend/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://chris.pirillo.com</link> <description>News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper.</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:52:52 +0000</lastBuildDate> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5</generator> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <copyright>&#xA9; </copyright> <managingEditor>chris@pirillo.com ()</managingEditor> <webMaster>chris@pirillo.com()</webMaster> <category></category> <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords> <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle> <itunes:summary>Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper.</itunes:summary> <itunes:author></itunes:author> <itunes:category text="Society &amp; Culture"/> <itunes:owner> <itunes:name></itunes:name> <itunes:email>chris@pirillo.com</itunes:email> </itunes:owner> <itunes:block>No</itunes:block> <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit> <itunes:image href="http://chris.pirillo.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress_large.jpg" /> <image> <url>http://chris.pirillo.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg</url><title>Chris Pirillo</title><link>http://chris.pirillo.com</link> <width>144</width> <height>144</height> </image> <item><title>The Deal with Twitter</title><link>http://chris.pirillo.com/the-deal-with-twitter/</link> <comments>http://chris.pirillo.com/the-deal-with-twitter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:45:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[General]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[buddy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[buddy-list]]></category> <category><![CDATA[friend]]></category> <category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social-networking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category><guid
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>Okay, I <a
href="http://twitter.com/chrispirillo">got bored</a> &#8211; and now you can learn about my boredom any time I care to tell you about my boring life! Seems silly to do, but&#8230; I&#8217;m a silly guy. Silly people know me, too (as evidenced by today&#8217;s twitterpations):</p><ul><li>Kitta Not really amazed that Anna Nicole Smith is dead, she was pretty much a walking talking pharmacy and a bad soap opera all-in-one 6 minutes ago from web</li><li>bbrooks IMAP + RDP + backed UP PST FTW 7 minutes ago from web</li><li>P_Dilly back from lunch, logging into Second Life to check out an idea I had. 8 minutes ago from web</li><li>NickStarr @Shooby Is it fast enough to support ReadyBoost? If so, I say take it. 8 minutes ago from im</li><li>Bwana Forgetting how to embed quicktime movies 9 minutes ago from web</li><li>rael Moving offices&#8230; Yay! 14 minutes ago from im</li><li>fraying At dinner with the museum folks. There is much French. 19 minutes ago from mobile</li><li>cvp putting together a temp site for the design firm.. until our backend is done anyway 19 minutes ago from twitterrific</li><li>wisequark Merlin on TWiT? Wow, Dvorak might go wackadoo&#8230;er 25 minutes ago from twitterrific</li><li>arstechnica [Infinite Loop] MacTech to publish &#8220;VBA to AppleScript&#8221; guide for Office developers &#8211; <a
href="http://tinyurl.com/22m9w5" title="http://tinyurl.com/22m9w5" target="_blank">tinyurl.com/22m9w5</a> 25 minutes ago from web</li><li>leolaporte TWiT This Week: Dvorak, Wil Harris, Tom Merritt, and Merlin Mann 26 minutes ago from im</li></ul><p>Have you been <a
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>Okay, I <a
href="http://twitter.com/chrispirillo">got bored</a> &#8211; and now you can learn about my boredom any time I care to tell you about my boring life! Seems silly to do, but&#8230; I&#8217;m a silly guy. Silly people know me, too (as evidenced by today&#8217;s twitterpations):</p><ul><li>Kitta Not really amazed that Anna Nicole Smith is dead, she was pretty much a walking talking pharmacy and a bad soap opera all-in-one 6 minutes ago from web</li><li>bbrooks IMAP + RDP + backed UP PST FTW 7 minutes ago from web</li><li>P_Dilly back from lunch, logging into Second Life to check out an idea I had. 8 minutes ago from web</li><li>NickStarr @Shooby Is it fast enough to support ReadyBoost? If so, I say take it. 8 minutes ago from im</li><li>Bwana Forgetting how to embed quicktime movies 9 minutes ago from web</li><li>rael Moving offices&#8230; Yay! 14 minutes ago from im</li><li>fraying At dinner with the museum folks. There is much French. 19 minutes ago from mobile</li><li>cvp putting together a temp site for the design firm.. until our backend is done anyway 19 minutes ago from twitterrific</li><li>wisequark Merlin on TWiT? Wow, Dvorak might go wackadoo&#8230;er 25 minutes ago from twitterrific</li><li>arstechnica [Infinite Loop] MacTech to publish &#8220;VBA to AppleScript&#8221; guide for Office developers &#8211; <a
href="http://tinyurl.com/22m9w5" title="http://tinyurl.com/22m9w5" target="_blank">tinyurl.com/22m9w5</a> 25 minutes ago from web</li><li>leolaporte TWiT This Week: Dvorak, Wil Harris, Tom Merritt, and Merlin Mann 26 minutes ago from im</li></ul><p>Have you been <a
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