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	<title>All Your Pals</title>
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	<description>when you care enough to gift the very best</description>
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		<title>Untapped potential at Gifts.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Evite, the online RSVP giant that has stood still since, oh, 1999, has a sister site called Gifts.com that I bet you&#8217;ve never heard of.
Its primary function seems to be two fold:  a gift guide section running on what I presume is a sales leads generation business, and a stored value gift card that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allyourpals.wordpress.com&blog=3193682&post=19&subd=allyourpals&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allyourpals.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/untapped-potential-at-giftscom/</link>
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		<title>Bad Gift Giving Explained</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, sort of.  We all know why we get bad gifts: It&#8217;s usually not because the gift givers are terrible people intending on hurting our feelings, it&#8217;s because they are clueless.  So leave it to &#8220;researchers&#8221; to confirm what we already know:
The unneeded blender, the detested sweater, the loathed golf clubs that are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allyourpals.wordpress.com&blog=3193682&post=17&subd=allyourpals&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allyourpals.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/bad-gift-giving-explained/</link>
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		<title>Clever marketing?  I don&#8217;t think so</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Came across this site, Worst Gift Ever/.  Maybe it&#8217;s because it is targeted at Christmas season, and right now it&#8217;s the week after Memorial Day, but I don&#8217;t get why the site has anything to do with Lowe&#8217;s.

It&#8217;s supposed to be funny (which it isn&#8217;t), and tells us that Lowe&#8217;s is contributing to some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allyourpals.wordpress.com&blog=3193682&post=15&subd=allyourpals&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allyourpals.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/clever-marketing-i-dont-think-so/</link>
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		<title>Gizmodo explains the worth of a $10 gift card</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gizmodo, the third most popular blog on the interweb (so says  technorati), has this to say about a company that basically sells a box of mystery:



&#8220;For $10 with free shipping, you can buy &#8220;something&#8221; at somethingstore. You won&#8217;t know what it is until you open it, but it&#8217;s most probably new, and possibly a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allyourpals.wordpress.com&blog=3193682&post=11&subd=allyourpals&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allyourpals.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/10-gift-card-is-not-worth-much-says-gizmodo/</link>
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		<title>Be Happy, Give!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout time and in almost every culture, we&#8217;ve been told that giving is better than receiving (or hoarding).  Dickens wrote about it, Jesus taught it, Buddha practiced it.
Well, it turns out that it may not be just altruism at work.  This week&#8217;s Science has an article on a study that shows giving makes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allyourpals.wordpress.com&blog=3193682&post=10&subd=allyourpals&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allyourpals.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/be-happy-give/</link>
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		<title>A plug for slicehost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ed: Thanks for Matt from Slicehost for correcting me, as I've confused the outage that 37signals suffered in November via Rackspace, with Slicehost.  Both are the top quality services that I relied upon, and my hazy memory confused them  My apologies.  Corrected post is below.]
Slicehost is the hosting company we are using [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allyourpals.wordpress.com&blog=3193682&post=9&subd=allyourpals&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allyourpals.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/a-plug-for-slicehost/</link>
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		<title>overheard at lunch today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scene: Sasi Cafe, Kirkland, Washington
Female Microftee:   I really want an iPhone.  I thought I was going to get it for Christmas but I didn&#8217;t get it.
Friend:   Oh I heard they are great.  I&#8217;d love to have one.
Microftee:   My birthday is coming up, maybe I&#8217;ll get one then.

She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allyourpals.wordpress.com&blog=3193682&post=8&subd=allyourpals&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allyourpals.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/overheard-at-lunch-today/</link>
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		<title>Possibly the best domain name, ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com should probably have started life as Books.com.   IRS should probably be Tax.gov, rather than Irs.gov.   But Stupid.com nailed it from the start:  They are a gag gift seller, carrying such gems as:

The Hillary Nutcracker
Peter Petrie Egg Separator
Ever popular, the Garden Gnome












Gag gifts are sometimes good when you run out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allyourpals.wordpress.com&blog=3193682&post=5&subd=allyourpals&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allyourpals.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/possibly-the-best-domain-name-ever/</link>
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		<title>Hello Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All Your Pals is a startup that my partner and I are working on launching later in 2008, but currently is still under wraps.   We thought sharing some of our thoughts and ideas would be a great place to start our journey.  Stick around and follow us in our quest to revolutionize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allyourpals.wordpress.com&blog=3193682&post=3&subd=allyourpals&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allyourpals.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/hello-friends/</link>
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