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	<title>A collection of thoughts.</title>
	<link>http://www.maxvalente.com</link>
	<description>This is a place for me to collect my thoughts.</description>
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		<title>Off to the cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As another ISP suffers another distributed denial of service attack, you have to ask yourself why a company would rush off all guns blazing into the cloud. With the cost of acquiring the services of thousands of drones ever decreasing, it&#8217;s getting cheaper to disrupt your competitors during key times such as new product launches. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxvalente.com/2011/09/off-to-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>The cosmic bunny hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was watching my twitter stream tick on over&#8230; Tick, tick, tick&#8230;. Out of the corner of my eye I catch these two gems. One bribing his kids with cookies and ice cream if they&#8217;ll just flush the toilet (we&#8217;ve all been there right)? The other&#8230; Stamping out polio.. The incredible randomness of twitter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxvalente.com/2011/07/the-cosmic-bunny-hole/</link>
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		<title>The tech tree..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IBM missed desktop Microsoft missed search Google missed social Facebook missed&#8230;. ?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxvalente.com/2010/11/the-tech-tree/</link>
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		<title>Riding to Brisbane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I decided that I would devote as much spare time as I could to charity. This was bought about in no small part by a vicious disease that ravaged my peripheral nervous system for 11 years. I was completely blown away by the support I received during my dark times (thank you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxvalente.com/2010/06/riding-to-brisbane/</link>
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		<title>Facebook and your privacy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Candy.. Not all your 12,643 Facebook friends really care that you top scored in Bedazzler, or that your farmville farm is thriving, in fact, a very small number of your perceived ‘followers’ couldn’t really give a shit about you at all. Anthropological Studies have shown that it’s difficult to maintain stable social relationships with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxvalente.com/2010/05/facebook-and-your-privacy/</link>
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		<title>Computer Security. Watch out for Ninja!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently presented to the Southwest Networking Group, my presentation outlined basic security techniques we can all use to pretect our digital identities. Here&#8217;s a link to the presentation. Powerpoint presentation on computer security]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxvalente.com/2010/05/103/</link>
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		<title>Presentation on productivity tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently presented to the Southwest Networking Group, my presentation outlined several productivity tools available that could streamline your working day. Here&#8217;s a link to the presentation. Powerpoint presentation on productivity Productivity tool Links: www.rememberthemilk.com www.evernote.com www.livescribe.com connect.microsoft.com/site94 www.dimdim.com www.rescuetime.com www.lifehacker.com www.gtdagenda.com]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxvalente.com/2010/04/presentation-on-productivity-tools/</link>
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		<title>Guaranteed conversion rates?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A client of mine recently engaged a marketing company to develop a campaign for a new product launch, the eventual outcome of the campaign was not quite what my client had bargained for. In order to protect the innocent, I can&#8217;t name my unsuspecting client, nor will I name the marketing company who duped them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxvalente.com/2010/03/guaranteed-conversion-rates/</link>
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		<title>Interactive Magazines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The inevitable release of Tablet PC&#8217;s may spell the demise of eBook readers such as the Kindle, purely for their ability to deliver rich multimedia content and interactivity beyond simply bookmarking pages. Content providers on the other hand are welcoming in a new age of rich multimedia delivery made possible by Tablet PC&#8217;s.The video below [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxvalente.com/2010/03/interactive-magazines/</link>
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		<title>2010, the year of the Tablet PC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salivating for that iPad? I bet.. Check out what else is due to ship this year. In a year that will be defined by tablet PC releases i&#8217;m going to fight my urges to splurge on the iPad and hold out for HP&#8217;s Slate. My logic for the decision is based on HP&#8217;s open standards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxvalente.com/2010/03/2010-the-year-of-the-tablet-pc/</link>
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