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Hi! I'm André Ribeirinho, an entrepreneur from Lisbon, Portugal. I've co-founded Adegga.com, an online wine community and also the AVIN (an ISBN for Wine). My Startup
Adegga is an online wine community where people can discover new wines through the opinions of other people.
Monthly Archives: March 2003
Usability is not everything
This quote is brilliant and I tottaly agree with it! Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in … Continue reading
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E-mail Tyranny
Simple rules on how can you improve your productivity and ways to smart use your email are the raison d’etre of the article The Tyranny of Email. A great follow-up named Tyranny Revisited was built using readers feedback.
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PayPal wants less trouble
ebay is making paypal services harder to use. By modifying its rules so that some categories of products can no longer be sold using paypal, ebay is expanding its policy to other services. Acording to this wired article paypal can … Continue reading
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How to get the most out of conferences
This article covers several interesting topics: Why conversations are more valuable than the sessions, how to spend your time for example in workshops or paper sessions, how to take advantage of the trip and the benefits and drawbacks of going … Continue reading
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Amazon sub-£10 iPaq case: mistake or marketing
I’m still not sure whether amazon’s price mistake was really a mistake or another brilliant marketing idea. Last week Amazon offered an iPaq for £7.32. The Amazon UK website was temporarily closed. But before that and as expected multiple orders … Continue reading
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New weblog software
As you can see I am currently changing the weblog software. I am moving from blogger to b2. The main reason from this is the need for categories to organize myself and the blog. I did a quick check on … Continue reading
YDreams and Outsystems
Software means innovation and quality in these companies. YDreams and Outsystems are two examples of a new breed of portuguese companys that have innovating products and are taking big steps into the global market. YDreams develops mobile games. They also … Continue reading
McDonald’s Wireless and HotSpot
High-speed wireless Internet access is available at McDonald’s restaurants in New York. It’s a big step towards large coverage for wi/Fi networks. If it proves to be a sucess they’ll probably expand the idea to other country’s. It’s kind of … Continue reading
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IKEA in Lisboa
Finally! IKEA is going to open its first store in Portugal. In december 2003 March 2004 a new IKEA warehouse that is being built in Alfragide will open its doors to the portuguese. It’s been a long wait. For many … Continue reading
Career in User Experience and Resources
Marcus Haid has written an essay on Starting a Career In User Experience. It is a very good reading to all of those interested not only wishing to work on user experience but also on user centered design and related … Continue reading
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