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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: June 2003
DVD Rental Business Model
What NetFlix did in the US is amazing. Faced with problems such as delivery rates and warehouse logitiscs they built a model that it’s beginning to catch Hollwoods attention. Like Amazon did a few years ago with small independent publishers … Continue reading
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Wi-Fi for Dummies
If want to build an Wi-Fi network and don’t know how, read this article and learn what options are important when buying an access point, how to configure the network and other related stuff. Also Read: netstumbler.com for keeping updated … Continue reading
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Virtual Companies vs Real Places
It’s quite strange when you get to see the office buildings of some of the biggest internet companies like Yahoo or Google. The internet page is their “face” to users not their actual buildings. Nice pictures btw linked from Heiko … Continue reading
Recommended by Microsoft…*sigh*
I would really like to know why does Microsoft recommend the user to set their MSN website has homepage in IE when installing MSN messenger. Of course it is a nice way of generating more hits and pre-defining the browsers … Continue reading
Ebay Redesign
Well finaly ebay.com (ebay uk too) is making a redesign of it’s functional-but-not-stylish design. They built a Tour page of the new design which includes some notes. This way they can educate users and at the same time get user … Continue reading
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A Powerful Psychological Tool
Observing how people buy I can quickly spot 3 main reasons why they choose a certain online store to buy: Price, Free Shipping and Trust. It’s easy to see why succeeds. They fullfil each of the customer needs. Not only … Continue reading
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The New Era of Pervasive Computing
A very interesting article on the future of the internet a how it will change the way we comunicate. Tim Oreilly writes how web technologies are being used to build web services that soon will (I hope it too!) help … Continue reading
Bush, Segway and the Future
As I was reading the article that said President Bush meant to fall off his Segway I was confident that it can not be true. The article states that this kind of (no-oil related) technology could be the end of … Continue reading
reboot6 in Denmark
I’m in online conference mode following reboot6. Reboot “is the annual meetingplace for the digital community in denmark”. John G�tze, Marc Canter and lots of other are updating their journals allowing us the outsiders keep up with what’s going on. … Continue reading
50 Worst Company Names
I had a really good laught with 50 Worst Company Names.Some: 7) Spirea: Get your kids vaccinated early! 13) Cognigine Corp: Cognahognahognabog? Cognahognahognabog! 20) Starbak Communication: Coming soon to every goddam corner near you… 22) VoicePump: The only telecommunications firm … Continue reading
