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	<description>Just another brick in the Open Source Wall...</description>
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		<title>Loyalty Mobile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like cell phones today have so many features that it is becoming less phone and more everything else. The new trend, when it comes to transforming your mobile phone into something else, is turning it into a Loyalty Card Collector. Startups like CardStar and CardBank already offer business a solution that uses barcodes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtspad.com/2010/06/loyalty-mobile/</link>
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		<title>Readers&#8217; Social Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is wonderful how powerful communication through social media is. If you simply start following the right people on Twitter, you&#8217;ll get a clear glimpse of what is happening around the world, as well as local and worldwide trends. Just mentioned that, because I was reading some tweeks, and came across one that was sent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtspad.com/2010/05/readers-social-network/</link>
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		<title>Software Patents not worth the effort?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I read an article from Erik J. Heels, where he states that patents are not always worth a try for startups, mainly when it comes to software patents.
Well, it happens that I have being reading about this subject lately, and sometimes I do agree, sometimes I don&#8217;t.
Although being expensive and time consuming, patents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtspad.com/2010/04/software-patents-not-worth-the-effort/</link>
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		<title>Moving the blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to move my blog to my own domain, and now using wordpress. I really liked the experience with blogger, but I decided that it was time to start having more control over my blog. This is going to be conducted as a test for some time, and then, when I see that wordpress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtspad.com/2009/01/moving-the-blog/</link>
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		<title>The Mormon Way of Doing Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The true definition or true defining situation for a person is what they do when they are alone and don&#8217;t have to do anything else&#8221; &#8211; Dell&#8217;s CEO Kevin Rollins
Isn&#8217;t it right? Have you ever noticed what do you do whenever you find yourself idle? Start thinking of it.
This book is based on interviews to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtspad.com/2009/01/the-mormon-way-of-doing-business/</link>
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		<title>Perhaps a starting point?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last post I wondered a little bit about how could a company give enough freedom to their employees so they can create their creative environment and do a better job. After posting, I began pondering some starting points, or directives, which could help a company walk in that direction.
First, I would like to bold that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtspad.com/2008/11/perhaps-a-starting-point/</link>
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		<title>First thoughts about the event&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went through the first morning of the event, and it was very inspiring. The speakers quality is very ok, and the event very well organized, but the catering service&#8230; Ok, we&#8217;re surviving that and in the end, we came here for brain not stomach food.
John Cleese mainly talked about ways of leting and insentivating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtspad.com/2008/11/first-thoughts-about-the-event/</link>
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		<title>Creativity World Forum ( CWF ) 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a fews months in a rush, I finally started to settle down and had the time to return to my blog. Soon, there will be some changes arround here, and I&#8217;m also moving to another domain which I&#8217;ll be announcing pretty soon.
The news is that I&#8217;m writing from the Lotto Arena, Antwerp, Belgium at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtspad.com/2008/11/creativity-world-forum-cwf-2008/</link>
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		<title>Seeing What&#8217;s Next</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    This book features some in depth study of real world industry changes, and how they happened, explained from a point of view that most of us have never thought before.
    I found it very usefull in several subjects of study. Seemingly &#8220;Crossing the Chasm&#8221;, Geoffrey A. Moore, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtspad.com/2008/05/seeing-whats-next/</link>
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		<title>Breakthrough: Stories and Strategies of Radical Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    This book was in my wishlist for almost a year before I had the opportunity to acquire and read it. As I couldn&#8217;t find it here in Brazil I had to wait for an opportunity to acquire it abroad or buy it from a foreign website. I did the first, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtspad.com/2008/04/breakthrough-stories-and-strategies-of-radical-innovation/</link>
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