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		<title>Microsoft Kin- Social Media Case Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikal Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclosure prior to joining Qworky I was a Product Planner at Microsoft working within Television, Music and Video one of the groups that gave birth to the Kin. While I did not work directly on the Kin, it’s ‘codename’ was a semi-frequent resident of meetings and product plan discussions. 
Color me impressed. And it seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recollections on Healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikal Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recall . . .
 As an intern sales representative in the pharmaceutical industry leading up to the 2004 Presidential elections the company I was working for had its sales force in a stupor. Everyone was deathly afraid of Kerry being elected. The consensus was that if John Kerry was elected it would mean death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Barnes &amp; Noble Is Not in the Book Selling Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikal Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second post in the ‘Is Nook a Kindle Killer?’ series by Mikal Lewis, coauthor of Notsocommoncents &#38; CEO of nascent Technology Startup Qworky.
At the conclusion of the last post on Barnes &#38; Noble’s strategy I wrote:
What I would do if I was Barnes and Noble:

Discover what business you’re in. You’re not in the book selling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Nook a Kindle Killer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikal Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a word. No.
Barnes and Noble execs (hopefully) know it, Amazon knows it. Everyone except for PC magazine knows it. But I don’t blame David Coursey’s cursory commentary, after all someone had to write the obligatory five reasons why… list.
Silicon Alley one of my favorite blogs has a good list of reasons explaining why ‘Nook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow M&amp;A process leaves Sun eclipsed</title>
		<link>http://www.notsocommoncents.com/2009/09/slow-ma-process-leaves-sun-eclipsed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin McDowell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard the news Oracle &#8211; Sun merger, I had high hopes that given a quick transition there would be some interesting disruptive effects.
This immediately threatens IBM who for years have used less expensive, home-grown hardware to propel sales in higher margin enterprise software. Oracle not only acquires the hardware to implement an [...]]]></description>
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