Monthly Archives: April 2006

TV TurnOff Week

This is TV TurnOff Week (April 24 – 30, 2006). TV Turnoff Week is all about saying no to being inundated with unwelcome commercial messages. Saying no to unfettered media concentration. And challenging the heavily distorted reflection of the world … Continue reading

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Factory mindset vs Entrepreneurship

This is the way Seth Godin explains this difference: What happens when your inbox is empty? What happens when all the agenda items and all the incoming emails are cleared? Time to go home. A job well done. Congratulations, you … Continue reading

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eCommerce Renaissance

I must have passed over this article when I read it the first time. But now it makes perfect sense to me. Future ecommerce will certainly be driven by applications built on top of some sort of Social Architecture as … Continue reading

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Blue Wine, Wine by-the-glass and BOYB

I’ve been reading some wine related publications lately. So now when I browse Portuguese newspapers or magazines my eye also stop at wine related news. So there were a few important wine related news this week: blue Wine is a … Continue reading

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Friendship and a new discovered Wine passion

A few months ago and slowly influenced by a good friend I becamed in love with the passionate world of wine without even noticing. Before that I didn’t even drink wine. I didn’t like it. And now I know why. … Continue reading

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Working with Human Dimension Companies

Fred’s latest article on Things you learn when working on a team, part 1 is a very interesting view on going from a one man operation into a team-based company. I particularly agree and like with this two parts: I … Continue reading

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New blog.delaranja.com RSS feed

If you read this blog via the RSS feed (what?!) there are some news. The feed is now managed via FeedBurner which provides a few nice feed management tools. You can get the new RSS feed of blog.delaranja.com here. If … Continue reading

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Wikio and Pierre Chappaz

After reading the book about kelkoo‘s success I was curious to hear this podcast with Pierre Chappaz talking (in french) about his new venture Wikio – You are the media. Wikio is a very interesting project that aims to bring … Continue reading

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(Not) Thinking about Ruby on Rails

A while ago I’ve spent a few hours playing with Ruby on Rails. Now, a few months later I decided to give it another try and look around for developments in the area. So I tried Google on the ruby … Continue reading

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The perspective of the shrink market business model

In his Shrink a Market! post Josh Kopelman suggests a look into a company business model through how much money it takes from the competition each time it makes money. He points to several examples: how Britannica ($600 Million market) … Continue reading

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