Monthly Archives: November 2006

Lisbon Christmas street lights (via Webcam)

Apart from its religious meaning, Christmas brings along a lot of other things that have more or less symbolic meaning: trees, shopping, Santa Claus, gift and a lot of lights. I used to hate Christmas lights mostly because I find … Continue reading

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The social web

I think that no one that usually uses Internet has any doubts that the web, as we know it, is changing to a more social one. Some folks like to call it the “Web 2.0”, others “Social web”. Although the … Continue reading

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A good afternoon at DeliDelux

Good moments spent at gourmet and wine store DeliDelux. Great place with great ambiance. She ended buying a few products for tonigh’s dinner (which was wonderful) and a friend offered me a Malhadinha 2004 (direct link soon) from Herdade da … Continue reading

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Bruno Giussani

Since I met Bruno at LIFT last year I have been reading religiously his blog Lunch over IP. Bruno’s blog has won a couple of blog prizes but that’s not the reason I love his blog. Bruno is a talented … Continue reading

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A look inside real state web startup Trulia’s

Robert Scoble interviews Peter Flint (Founder and CEO) on the offices of real state web startup Trulia. I think it’s a very interesting interview where you can learn about Trulia’s business. Peter talks about the business, the product, the technology, … Continue reading

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Future of Web Apps, London Feb 20 – 22

I’ve just registered for the Future of Web Apps in London. I’ll be at the 2-day conference and also going to the workshop day. I’ll be attending Scalable LAMP Development for Growing Web Apps with Matt Ogle from Last fm … Continue reading

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Etsy launches version 2 (or How to launch a new version of a website)

Social Shopping site Etsy is launching a new version tomorrow morning. They’ve been preparing for this version for a few months and it has been a wonderful journey to watch since the whole process has been described at their blog. … Continue reading

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Podcast Sena Santos

Franscisco Sena Santos is one of my favourite Portuguese radio journalists. For years I’ve heard him over at TSF and Antena 1. Now he has a podcast. Every morning he goes through the world’s newspapers and gives us a brief … Continue reading

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Guest blogger: Hugo Silva

I’ve decided to try something new here at the blog so I’ve invited Hugo Silva to be my guest blogger during November. I’ve met Hugo at LIFT in Geneva last year (although we live in the same city and work … Continue reading

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Like.com and the niche market approach

A new product has been launched using the same technology that was being used to power image search engine Riya. The news is everywhere. What I like most about Like is that being a shopping comparison site they are targetting … Continue reading

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