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		<title>After a decade of intervention&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got this in iMessage just now. Describing frustration with trying to kick off a startup in Northern Ireland. I&#8217;ve met with a few private investors, a couple of angels, a few venture capitalists, lots of public sector funding managers and a few deal brokers. I&#8217;ve read a few term sheets &#8211; enough to realise when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cimota.com/blog/2012/05/23/after-a-decade-of-intervention/</link>
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		<title>84% of tablet owners play games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Alan O&#8217;Dea at SimpleLifeforms: There were 56 million tablets purchased worldwide in 2011, but a new report from Forrester Research predicts that number will explode in the years ahead: its researchers say that there will be 375 million tablets sold by 2016, representing a compound annual growth rate of 46 percent, and that by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cimota.com/blog/2012/05/23/84-of-tablet-owners-play-games/</link>
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		<title>Let go of the old&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toronto Sun: &#8220;Film is dead, long live digital.&#8221; David Cronenberg: So, actually, you can&#8217;t process film in Toronto any more. If you shot on film in Toronto, you&#8217;d have to send it to L.A. to get it developed. And why would you ever want to shoot on film? Well, I don&#8217;t. Creatively though, what you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cimota.com/blog/2012/05/22/let-go-of-the-old/</link>
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		<title>Play Different</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I played some Day Z earlier. It consisted of running cross-country for ages. Then looting some tents owned by some very dangerous people. Then running again and running some more. Then meeting my brother and his friends and using my loot to heal them up. And running away from zombies. And being too scared to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cimota.com/blog/2012/05/21/play-different/</link>
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		<title>BBC Creative Collisions &#8211; Future of Media Technology #CC2012NI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday 8th June 2012 10am to 2pm includes lunch and refreshments BBC Blackstaff Studio 62-66 Great Victoria Street &#8211; Belfast &#8211; BT2 7BB Creative Collisions 2012 is an opportunity for you to engage in the cutting edge of media technology and innovation. Whether you want to harness technology for practical media solutions, diversify your innovative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cimota.com/blog/2012/05/17/bbc-creative-collisions-future-of-media-technology-cc2012ni/</link>
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		<title>Perfect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Instagram was the topic of conversation in the office yesterday. Date Event Revenues (Cumulative) March 2010 Received $500K Seed funding and founded company. Launched 6 months later. 0 February 2011 Received $7M in Series A on a valuation above $20M 0 April 2012 Received $50M in Series B on a valuation of $500M 0 One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cimota.com/blog/2012/05/16/perfect/</link>
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		<title>Cultural Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, the launch of the Cultural Apps competition was held in the MAC in Belfast and was attended by all the great and the good. Here are some images from that.]]></description>
		<link>http://cimota.com/blog/2012/05/16/cultural-apps/</link>
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		<title>TV, Games, Emergence, Agency and Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t often do link lists but I have a few articles to share. After spending some time with NI&#8217;s television industry yesterday, I have to give a shout out to Greg Darby, Philip Morrow, Colin Williams and Michael Hewitt. It was good to see the TV industry united under a single cause. I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cimota.com/blog/2012/05/16/tv-games-emergence-agency-and-death/</link>
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		<title>Your definition of broadband is wrong.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I had the pleasure of attending a Deloitte paper launch and the guest speaker was Peter Cochrane. I&#8217;d not heard of Peter before but he eloquently (and authoritatively) put forward an argument that I have tried to explain to stakeholders across the province. While it&#8217;s hard to get the full effect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cimota.com/blog/2012/05/15/your-definition-of-broadband-is-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Same Genre, Vastly Different Gameplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ARMA II OA running Day Z mod. Left 4 Dead 2 There are similarities. Mostly non-military weapons (though they are accessible in both). The Zombies are fast. There&#8217;s a certain amount of scavenging and defence required. The differences are considerable. Left4Dead uses an episodic format whereas Day Z is a vast open world. The former [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cimota.com/blog/2012/05/14/same-genre-vastly-different-gameplay/</link>
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