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Welcome
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About
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Welcome to DigitalOutbox
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A podcast all about digital technology - computing, gadgets, gaming
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UK based podcast with a real world take on the digital trends
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Title Music
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Original music by Paul Fernihough - contact via twittter
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Review of the Year Part 2
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July
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O2 gets the Pre
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Google Chrome OS
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Office 2010 - moving online
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Apple blocks Palm Pre in iTunes
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Amazon delete 1984 form Kindles
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Google Voice app blocked from app store + app's already approved remove - Apple rotten to the core
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Microhoo! Yahoo gives up on search
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Microsoft 'sick' add
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August
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Google blinks in the start of the search wars. New search algorithms tested. Starts real world adverts
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Toshiba finally ends High Def Disc war and gives up on HD-DVD in favour of Blu-Ray.
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Twitter adds Geo-location to API, announces project retweet
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First video advert in print media
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FCC inquiry into Google Voice Apple add rejection.
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Start of the 3-strikes arguments from Digital Britain
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Bing begins teaming up on search front - Wolfram Alfa integration announced.
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Spotify to iPhone
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Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple board
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Facebook buys Friendfeed - Friendfeed traffic dies over next 4 months"
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The MS "Polish Photoshop Polava
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September
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Snow Leopard released
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Steve's back as the face of Apple at their event. iTunes 9, LP format, Nano shoots video. Meh.
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eBay announce sale of Skype, Joltid file suit against eBay for IP infringement on Skype
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Win Mobile 6.5 released
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T-mobile announce merger with Orange
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iPlayer added to PS3
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Zune HD released stateside. Not coming to Europe. Fools
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PS3 Slim released
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Wall Street journal begins charging for content
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MS App store announced, Apple App Store downloads top 2 billion
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MS open up their online suite of office apps to early testers
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Google Sidewiki - they take over commenting now
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Windows 7 launch parties
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Tech/Gadget of the Year
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Chris
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Of my purchases - Nikon D90 my favorite. Whole new world opened up.
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Tech - Spotify has changed the market.
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Henry
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Of my purchases - Freecom Musicpal - cheap internet radio and music streaming device and my alarm clock.
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Windows 7 - great job by Microsoft and came out with a great OS when there was little expectation
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Ian
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Of my purchases, iPhone 3gs, in fact phones have been THE gadget of the year
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Tech, Spotify was good, but Twitter was the win for me
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Shakeel
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Of my purchases, Denon AH-D5000.
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Tech - Facebook - great website and app on the iPhone
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Review of the Year Part 2
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October
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Google Wave released for restricted beta, invites for sale on Ebay
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US releases tight grip on ICANN
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The internet overtakes TV as the biggest advertising sector in the UK
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MS release security essentials and ruffle some big feathers in the process
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Announced the O2 exclusivity of iPhone to end
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Discovery of more than 30,000 web mail account details online
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Flash announced for all major mobile platforms... apart from iPhone
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Kindle announced for the UK (and Europe)
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Jan Moir stirs up the wrath of the internet with her hateful and distasteful article in the mail
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Sky Songs launched
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UK postal strikes leading to much hate...
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Twitter real time search deals announced with Bing - Google quick to announce their deal in response
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Windows 7 launches
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Apple release new hardware - iMacs, Magic Mouse
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Nokia sues Apple
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Google Maps Navigator - disruptive - free sat nav
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Twitter lists
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November
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Droid released stateside - and will be known as Milestone in Europe.
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Twitter adds lists
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iPhone sold by Orange
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Sky Player hits the 360 - but no iPlayer
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Google buys admob - beats Apple to it
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Internet turns 40
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iPlayer on freeview...
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iPlayer on Wii
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Suit against eBay/Skype settled and sale goes forward.
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App Store hits 100,000 apps
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Murdoch threatens blocking of Google indexing
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Bing Maps finally comes to UK - impressive stuff
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Apple wins its case against Psystar in the attack of the clones
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MS Bans hundreds of thousands of gamers from its Live network for modding consoles
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Chrome OS announced
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News Corp talks with Bing about tie in to exclude Google
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December
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Apple sues Nokia
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Crowdsourcing gets RATM to No 1 - beats Simon Cowell. Facebook and twitter lead the way
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Bye Bye Crunchpad - Hello JooJoo
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Bing Steams on
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Google Public DNS
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Apple buys LaLa
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Google Chrome browser - extensions, mac beta
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Google phone confirmed
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Google Wave
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Hype, hype, hype
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Nothing much beyond initial use
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Is Wave like twitter and a use will come eventually or is it software beyond use?
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Use cases always seem to have an alternative
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Public waves - can't follow conversation
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Corporate uses - don't think so as rules would be needed
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Damp squid so far
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Best function so far - Paul haring our new intro music
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Windows 7
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Good job all round, despite the advertising
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A mature Vista computer was pretty stable and had similarities to Windows 7
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Tried to do something different with navigation and GUI where as Vista didn't have that
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12 Months of Software Development
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Very little hardware but a great 12 months for software development
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Google released a ton of new software
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Bing came from nowhere and is rapidly adding features
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Apple buying LaLa - new model for iTunes?
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There is a movement to the cloud
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Is it safer? Will there be a backlash?
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Twitter got burned using Google docs when there docs were stolen
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Failures of the Year
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Henry
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Digital Britain
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In pockets of entertainment industry
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Missed opportunity
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Report seemed to be about criminalising people and taking away internet access
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Chris
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Apple's September Conference - very disappointing
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Was the hype to blame?
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Felt like they had lined up a few things but it never came off
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Pointless - didn't need an event
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Shakeel
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iPhone 3GS
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New hardware was a let down
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Expected so much more
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Shakeel fails bad but then it was the only thing that was really disappointing
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Phone looked and felt identical - didn't shout out new!
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Ian
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Location blocks - pandora, hulu
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Games hardware and industry in general - poor year
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Batteries - daily charging is painful, laptop battery life an issue
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Steve Jobs liver
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Predictions for 2010
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Ian
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Tablet industry takes off - apple top of the pile but a number
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New iPhone - video calling but what else - new design, background app's - spotify!
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Great new phones competing with iPhone
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Google vs apple vs microsoft - each company upping the anti
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Cloud computing - chrome os, office online, more and more of our content available via the cloud
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Augmented reality more than a gimmick? no standards
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3D talked about A LOT but more - internet on your tv, tv's with net connection, project canvas
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Chris
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3D will be bigger than we think - but not as big as the industry is hoping.
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By the end of the year, the competition will have crept up on the iPhone and there will be at least 3 alternatives that compete.
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The economy won't be anywhere near fixed and a tech recession is imminent as taxes rise and peoples savings are depleted.
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The Apple Tablet will appear but will be hugely priced and very niche.
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Chrome OS will see the launch of some properly priced JooJoo type devices and the market in web based applications will grow.
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Someone will find a need for Wave... probably.
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We'll have a new government. But probably one that is going to pander to the entertainment industry in equal measures and potentially cripple the internet even more.
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Henry
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A huge year for Microsoft, building on Windows 7 approval and the roll out amongst corporates over the next 12 months
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Bing will pay big money to get exclusive content (not just with NewsCorp),
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A phone to maybe compete with the iPhone
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Businesses promoting products via Apps, different to what we've seen so far
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Shakeel
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Mobile usage will grow, especially as smart phone competition hots up
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New iPhone - 64 GB capacity, Toshiba rolling out new Nand chips
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Higher resolution screen on iPhone but keep the physical size the same
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Improved camera, keep up with market and competition
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Video chat on the iPhone - soon please
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OLED TV - towards end of the year
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3D TV - dubious but Samsung are going strong on it - CES should tell us more
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Apple Tablet for sure, produce something that will convince the doubters
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Feedback
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Close
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Contact the Contributors
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Ian
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Ian's personal blog
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Follow Ian on Twitter
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Facebook
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Shakeel
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Shakeel's personal blog
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Follow Shakeel on Twitter
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Facebook
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Chris
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Chris's personal blog
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Follow Chris on Twitter
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Henry
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Henry's personal blog
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Follow Henry on Twitter
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