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Filtering the web so you don’t have to for January 30th 2011

• From Twitter – RT @jamestenniswood NewerTech adapter turns eSATA into USB 3.0, makes legacy external HDDs feel young again http://engt.co/hRnD4I
• From Twitter – The Egypt Crisis in a Global Context A Special Report | STRATFOR http://shar.es/3bbkj
• Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur? –
  techcrunch.com - Guest Author
  

  Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He started his first company in 1999 and was headquartered in London, leaving in 2005 and selling to a publicly traded French services company. He founded his second company in Palo Alto in 2005 and sold this company to Salesforce.com, becoming VP of Product Management. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner focusing on early-stage technology companies. Read more about S..  show all text
• Wireless Networking in the Developing World – Wireless Networking in the Developing World book can be freely downloade
• From Twitter – RT @xenijardin List of ad-hoc mesh network routing protocols that can be used during an "internet kill switch". http://bit.ly/eaihfq
• Why I was wrong about Quora as a blogging service … — Scobleizer –
  scobleizer.com - Robert Scoble
  I must apologize to Dave Winer. He warned me about supporting services that aren’t the open web and I wasn’t willing to listen to him a month ago, because I was infatuated with a cool new service that lots of insiders were supporting.
  I’ve seen a LOT of discussion about Quora in the past few weeks since I wrote it could be the biggest blogging innovation in the past decade. GigaOm even wrote a post asking whether it was worth the more than $80 million the investors are hoping ..  show all text