We’re Hiring a Programmer/Consultant

We at log are hiring!
Position: Programmer/Consultant Location: Lisboa Job type: Full-time

log is looking for a Programmer/Consultant with the following profile:
- One or more years of experience with open-source technology;
- Knowledge of Perl;
- Interest on Internet technology;
- Managment Skills of Linux Servers .
- Creativity and initiative;
- Desire to learn and share information;
- High-level of reponsability;
- Commitment to personal development and to achieve business goals.

log is offering:
- Integration in a innovative and dynamic company;
- Ability to create;
- Competitive salary;
- Professional progression based on ability and performance;
- Teamwork;
- Work environment where you can learn, share and be enriched by your own and other team members experiences.

The job:
- Consultancy and development of open-source technologies;
- Design of custom solutions;
- Creation and development of Web solutions;

Please contact us if you’re interested.

July 28, 2004 | Tags: | 2 Comments 

Creating a Company: Real World Experience

Loic Le Meur is the founder of U-blog. His company has been acquired/joined by Six Apart (blog application MovableType creators). Some of his experience in founding and managing U-blog has been documented and can be found here. It’s full of good advice on starting up a business and running it. He divided his experience in several posts:
1 - The idea has no value
2 - Find the best people and trust them.
3 - Work always long term rather than short term.
4 - Respect and talk to your competitors.
5 - Raise funds or not?
6 - Networking, networking, networking!
7 - Entrepreneurs do make mistakes, learn from them and react. PR and blogs and how your Company should deal with them.

Priceless information right from the trenches. Real world experience.

July 27, 2004 | Tags: | Leave a Comment 

Portugal Enters the RFID Wave with Dog-ID

InformationWeek as an article about a company that won a government contract to install RFID tags on Dogs In Portugal.

Portugal’s agricultural ministry is implementing an animal-tracking project in order to comply with an european mandate for identification of dogs, cats, and ferrets traveling into and between EU member countries.

I live with three cats and never heard any of this before. Even from my cats veterinary. Maybe it’s not ready for deployment. Anyway good news for Portugal as it enters the RFID world with inovative solutions for old problems.

July 27, 2004 | Tags: | Leave a Comment 

Google will be worth 28% of the Portuguese GDP

No suprises as google anounces it’s IPO share price between $108 and $135 per share. Expensive? Probably.

Portuguese newspaper Diario Economico is reporting that if Google reaches it’s maximum valuation it will be worth 28% of the Portuguese Gross Domestic Product.

We can always see it from a more positive perspective. As Salgadation puts it, the Portuguese GDP is 3 times bigger than Google’s valuation…

July 27, 2004 | Tags: | Leave a Comment 

The Swedish Girls Pizzeria

A last-minute invitation from one of my best friends to have dinner at a home-made style pizzeria owned and operated by two swedish girls, with a wonderful see view in a 35º C summer night sounds like an irresistible proposition. And it is. So on we went last night to Cascais to enjoy the hot evening. I cannot remember the last time I patiently waited to eat for at least 1h30m (we were informed that it would take that long). But the night was marvelous, the ambient with candle lights and garden-style furniture was delightful and we had the whole night ahead of us.


After we sat down and received the menus another good surprise. Every item on the menu had a wordwide swedish brand or name. From Sven-Goran Eriksson to IKEA. We ordered a SWEA pizza (sliced meat and ham), a Roxette pizza (red and green peppers with onions) and a Chicken Salad (with indian spicy sauce).


Everyone at the restaurant was having a good time talking with each other as if we all had to wait there for something that would take hours to arrive. We enjoyed it so much that we stayed at the restaurant talking until 2 am. It was such a wonderful experience. Why can’t we find more places like that?

FYI: The restaurant is located at Casa da Guia in the road to the beaches of Guincho.

July 25, 2004 | Tags: | 1 Comment 

New Typeface Helps Dyslexics

Wired writes about a new typeface called Read Regular that helps dyslexics distinguish characters more easily online and in print. Many typefaces use the same format for b and d, or p and q and this makes them difficult to read by people with dyslexia. When developing Read Regular Natascha Frensch found out that children are also affected by similar characters when starting to learn how to read.


(text uses Read Regular typeface)

With a much broader market than the initial thought the Dutch author has received lots of inquiries about Read Regular and is in process of licensing the typeface. I hope she releases it quick. I’m certainly going to use it as soon as it comes out.

July 22, 2004 | Tags: | Leave a Comment 

Follow-the-Leader Strategy

Online search leader Google created and launched Gmail. Then followers Yahoo! and MSN buy e-mail and search related companies Oddpost (amazing interface!) and Lookout respectively.


Will Google be able to maintain it’s leadership? For how long? If they continue to improve their products and give an even better value to their users / customers then, I believe, for quite a few years.

July 18, 2004 | Tags: | Leave a Comment 

Six Design Lessons From the Apple Store

Jesse James Garrett (bio here) partnet of Adaptive Path has written an article on the way Apple stores are designed He identified 6 lessons to learn from the design:
1. Create an experience, not an artifact.
2. Honor context.
3. Prioritize your messages.
4. Institute consistency.
5. Design for change.
6. Don’t forget the human element.
He then explains each one in detail. These are some of the reasons Apple is such an icon and is loved but every client and desired by non-clients. They know about User Experience and they build it incredibly well.

July 13, 2004 | | Leave a Comment 

Potential Uses of RFID

A good article on RFID usage is available at the Technology Review site. The articles shows some RFID implementation examples from baggage to tires to beer industries.

RFID is slowly entering our lives. The price must still come down to allow companies to mass market it but, nevertheless, it has already gained some buzz that may help spread it’s usage. In some years and albeight privacy concerns our life will be much more easier with the potential of such solution.

Think for example that whenever you shop at the supermarket you just have to pass by the cash register without taking the goods out of you troley. 30 seconds and no more checkout lines. Ever.

July 13, 2004 | Tags: | 1 Comment 

Weekend Reading


Some of the links I’ve been reading this weekend:
- Ceguera a los banners: cómo se produce este fenómeno psicológico.
- Y de repente… desaparece: La volatilidad de la identidad de la marca…
- Good Experience Site and Good Experience Blog
- Uncle Mark 2004 Gift Guide & Almanac. You can download it here (PDF file, 424k)
- Destination Wi-Fi, by Rail, Bus or Boat
And finally last but definetly not least: I’ll be spending some time around Design Council. It’s a huge document collection on Workplace design, Business Design, etc.

July 11, 2004 | Tags: | Leave a Comment 

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