I hope you have enjoyed watching it.
2 Comments Today is my 32nd birthday! To celebrate I made this short stop motion film using 32 wine bottles and a Nikon D90.
This video is actually a pilot for an interesting Adegga project
1 Comment Straight from the 2010 Academy Awards (and my passion for animation) here’s the trailer from the Best Animated Short.
Logorama explores the extent to which logos are embedded in our daily existence. Said members of H5, “Logorama presents us with an over-marketed world built only from logos and real trademarks that are destroyed by a series of natural disasters (beginning with a hurricane, cyclone, tidal wave). Logotypes are used to describe an alarming universe (similar to the one that we are living in) with all the graphic signs that accompany us everyday in our lives. This over-organized universe is violently transformed by the cataclysm becoming fantastic and absurd. It shows the victory of the creative against the rational, where nature and human fantasy triumph.” [from wikipedia ]
It’s a very interesting perspective on how daily life is surrounded by logos, brands every day and every time. Also, interesting to note that the city overview looks like a container city.
The runners up for Best Animated Short were:
Here are the trailers
1 Comment In the last few weeks I’ve had the opportunity (read footer) to test one of the newest LED-backlit monitors from LG, the W2486L .
LG says that the monitor is perfect for gaming, but not being a huge gamer I’ve decided to test the W2486L as my Mac monitor (which includes movies & TV series) for a few weeks.
Adegga. The W2486L would be a normal 24” monitor if it wasn’t for 2 things. First it uses the LED-backlit technology with allows LG to make a very thin monitor with a high efficient use of energy. And, with a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080, the W2486L is also capable of playing Full HD videos. Which is specially interesting given its 16:9 aspect ratio.
Design B&W speakers .
Performance CNET said about their tests:
The W2486L scored well in our color tests, faltering only in our color ramp tests as it didn’t show a smooth intensity color ramp. In our Dark Screen test, clouding or backlight bleedthrough was noticeable on the top and especially the bottom-middle edge of the screen, but not quite as much as we saw on the XL2370. We were pleased though that the display didn’t crush dark grays and confuse them with black. We were able to see low levels of dark gray.
There, happy now?
Connectivity
Downsides Photo Effect feature which is pretty useless (why would you change your monitor to Sepia?) and also the Auto Bright Sensor which is a smart but annoying feature that fortunately can be turned off.
Conclusion Pixmania ) this is a great monitor to have in the living room connected to your computer or media center.
More W2486L reviews here , here , here and here .
Note: I’ve received this monitor from LG and was asked to test it for a few weeks. As part of that LG program, the monitor will now be given free-of-charge to the Associação Terra dos Sonhos (my choice) which supports children and teenagers with chronicle or terminal illness. Well done LG.
2 Comments Since my times initial times at the university where at 19 I was the proud owner of a company called Maniacustica and spent my time building and selling car audio equipment (and not studying) that I’m a big fan of fine audio equipment.
I’ve always had a thing for really good, deep and powerful bass. Be it on house-style music, a good RnB, a rock classic or even heavy metal (think Metallica) bass can have a striking impact on the quality of your music-listening experience.
It’s been a while since I paid any attention to fine audio equipment. I was decided to go back to owning some really good, bass-powerful audio equipment and so I recently acquired the Sennheiser HD 215 headphones.
I was not going to buy a full audio system and so I decided to consider a new set of headphones that would have really good bass but wouldn’t compromise on the audio quality of the the other side of the frequency response range.
With a factory response of 12 to 22000 Hz and big ear cups the HD 215 is definitely designed to handle deep and powerful bass. However, my tests with music requiring a good mid-to-high response, have also show that the HD 215 can handle any type of music with a clear and vivid sound. The excellent attenuation of ambient noise together with the very good wearing comfort makes the HD 215 ideal for long listening sessions.
Another little feature that I like on the HD 215 is the fact that you can unplug the headphone cord from the body of the headphones. This means the cord can be replaced if it gets damaged avoiding having to throw away a perfectly good pair of headphones. The headphones come with a practical protective pouch to carry them around.
At 80 euros these are not your everyday headphones but they certainly they justify every euro spent. I’m loving them.
7 Comments How to Bootstrap was a presentation I did at Reboot together with my good friend Thomas who did a great job of putting my bootstrapping experience in context.
I had a great time talking about my journey building Adegga. During the presentation I share some funny and not so funny moments of that journey so far. I hope you enjoy the video:
17 Comments I’m incredibly happy to have been awarded as Wine Personality of the Year in Portugal by the DN newspaper and I would like to take this amazing opportunity to say a few things.
As I said previously it makes me very proud to see the work that me and my team (André Cid and Emídio Santos) have been doing during the last 3 years recognized by a national newspaper. So, what have we been doing ?
Adegga quit my day job at SAPO and decided to work full-time on this project.
Adegga (Twitter ) is an online wine community where anyone can track the wines that are drinking (to help remember later) and share that experience with other people.Adegga now has over 100.000 unique visitors every month and includes over 10.000 tasting notes from its members. Together consumers are changing the wine world by creating a new wine recommendation era where trust and conversation are more important than status.
Adegga is now a platform with a soon be released API and Mobile application for the IPhone & Android.
Wine producers can use Adegga to talk about their wines, present their winery or launch a new wine. Cortes de Cima and Quevedo are two of wine producers already doing it.
AVIN, an ISBN for Wine
The AVIN (Twitter ) is a unique identifier for each wine. Think of it as an ISBN for Wine.
Like with books, every wine should have a unique number. This will help consumers get more information out of each bottle of wine and help them make smarter decisions.
2 years ago we created the concept of Dynamic Wine Labels allowing anyone with a camera-enabled mobile phone to read the label and access wine reviews, wine prices and a lot more information from anywhere.
Cortes de Cima , Quevedo , O’Vineyards were the first to use the AVIN.
Now, over 1 million wine labels have been printed with a Dynamic Wine Label including an AVIN and a QRCode
Wineries interested in getting an AVIN for their wines should contact us .
What else? Gabriella and Ryan Opaz and shirt-proud Robert McIntosh I helped bring the European Wine Bloggers conference to Portugal. The conference was a major success, gathering over 160 people including wine producers, wine bloggers and wine writers from around the World. It brought new media education and attention to the Portuguese wine industry.
Portugal *is* changing exposure that should happen more often in Portugal. Some awards should exist to promote and create public awareness of great work done by young people who are shaping the future and not to award the same-old-people who are already well know and awarded. Thanks to Aníbal Coutinho for his courage in doing this and helping change this mentality.
Aníbal wrote something powerful to finish the article and I definitely think ever
If you’re a wine producer or professional in the wine area and you’ve haven’t understood why I gave André Ribeirinho the award, make sure you’re not turning your back to the future of your business.
Thank you everyone who has been supporting me and my projects on Twitter, Facebook and all around the World. You guys make it possible!
Thanks Henriette from inspiring me for that title!
22 Comments I just learned that I have been nominated for Wine Personality of Year in Portugal by the Portuguese newspaper DN and I would like to say a few things even before the final result is announced.
It makes me very proud to see the work that me and my team (André Cid and Emídio Santos) have been doing in the last 3 years recognized by a national newspaper.
I feel honored to be listed amongst such amazing wine professionals as Dirk Niepoort and João Pires .
I think that praising good work done by young people should be a part of the news (paper, tv, etc.) more often. There are a lot of great projects that should be highlighted more.
Thanks everyone for your continuing support!
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I'm André Ribeirinho, an entrepreneur in Lisbon, Portugal. I'm a co-founder of wine community Adegga.com and AVIN (ISBN of Wine). I'm also an advisor at Tarpipe and an organizer at SHiFT. I do Web Consulting and give Wine and Social Media Workshops.
