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• Long but fun day in Berkeley at BarCampBank. Great discussions around retirement, personal finance management, business models and mobile. #
• along with meeting lots of incredibly bright people that are working on great things in the finance world. #
• Now back to hotel in San Francisco. Where to eat dinner?? Any suggestions for financial district area (and beyond)? #
• @mmpartee Thanks for posting pics and writeups! #
• @JCCapelli Great meeting yesterday at BCBSF. Great pics too http://www.flickr.com/groups/barcampbanksf/pool/ #
• late lunch at the ferry building on waterfront, then shopping for gifts for the family, then back to work contemplating workshop and bcbsf #

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• In San Franciso for a few days. We’ve got a cool pf blogger workshop lined up tomorrow, and BarCampBank on Saturday. #
• I kinda deleted my personal twitter account yesterday. Having trouble getting it back, looks like I’ll be tweeting here for now. #
• Is it just me, or do Y! Pipes RSS feeds and Google Reader not play well together. So many duplicates to wade through in reader. #

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• The Hungry Dollar, a great new pf blog, posted an interview with me about NetworthIQ - http://tinyurl.com/239xmr #

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• Bounce rate is down 10% over last two days. Amazing how much more people stick around when they have a hint of the site already. #
• @jted I second the hope that your assets are not distributed across the universe. Would be interested to see a summary of your comparison. #

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• NetworthIQ, along with @geezeo and @wesabe are highlighted in Washington Post article on the social money sites. http://tinyurl.com/2g7bkf #
• Quote from a member of NetworthIQ: "the site has made him less of a spender and more of a saver." Awesome. #

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• Fixed bug with new users’ badges not working. Cropped up in the latest updates. #

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• Last week I reported that stats were added for all balance sheet categories (home, credit cards, etc.). The comparison report now has those. #

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• New net worth stats crunching script running as I type this. Now, how am I going to present this data? I’ll start with a twitter stream. #
• Tthe median home value in the US is $111, 000 and the average is $209,000 (n=5713, using my "current user" algorithm) #
• The median mortgage is $42,238 and the average is $117,119. Man, wouldn’t that be nice? #
• The median credit card debt is $184 (wow, that doesn’t look right) and the average is $5023 #

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• Fixed some email issues, reminders going out today. #
• Need to find/write a script for processing bounced messages so I can stop sending reminders to emails that aren’t active. #

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• Have a beat on some more in-depth net worth statistics. Calculating stats for every month, every category, and every demographic. #
• Hope to publish something this week, after sorting through them. There’s a reason the S&P 500 is a consistent set of companies. #
• BusinessWeek outlines how personal finance sites build trust (NetworthIQ included) http://tinyurl.com/3agkvb #

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