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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: September 2006
A small guide to Lisbon
SHiFT is only a few days away. Some of the speakers and participants are not from Portugal, so I decided to write A small guide to Lisbon to help them on this visit. It’s small so don’t expect everything to … Continue reading
Trust your friends not the Wisdom of Crowds
Social Shopping is still in its infancy because it hasn’t reached the mainstream audience, yet. It has come a long way this year and after the first innovative experiments – like the successful Etsy (my view here) – it is … Continue reading
Tagged business
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SHiFT Workshop: Designing the Next Generation of Web Applications
SHiFT is happening next thursday and Friday. But first on next on Wednesday it’s Workshop day. There’s a lot of good stuff happening on this day and now that prices were reduced there’s no excuse for not coming. There are … Continue reading
Social Value from Individual Motives
Tom Coates presentation for the Future of Web Apps conferece – Greater than the sum of its parts – explores the models behind Flickr, Wikipedia and other tools (like Adegga) that gather social value from individual motives. In his own … Continue reading
Simplified WordPress Case Study
Last week I’ve spent some time helping Batixa (my girlfriend) to update her blog da batixa (located at cor.delaranja.com) to WordPress‘s latest version. By using K2 as a template and a few plugins we managed to create an easy to … Continue reading
Tagged tech
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London Photos
All the photos from the time spent in London are now online at her flickr. She made this lovely badge using Mosaic Maker.
BloggerView
I have been interviewed by Hugo following his very interesting BloggerView initiative where he has been doing interviews with bloggers from blogs (Portuguese and abroad) that he usually follows on his newsreader. The interviews are published in Hugo’s blog which … Continue reading
New blog design
For those of you that read this blog via RSS feed* or via aggregators like Planeta Asterisco, I’ve changed a few things around the blog to make it worth the visit not just for a post. The design is now … Continue reading
Volver
After a long time away from cinema, I went to see Volver, the new film from Pedro Almodovar featuring Penelope Cruz and Lola Dueñas. Volver is the kind of Spanish film that I like. It’s the kind of film that … Continue reading
