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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: December 2006
New 2000 pieces puzzle
Just bought a new 2000 pieces puzzle. I did it for several reasons. 1. It’s been a long time since I spent a few hours on a puzzle. I miss the feeling. 2. Puzzle solving is one of the best … Continue reading
A better Web 2.0
Bruno Giussani had access to Gartner’s report Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. The Hype Cycle for emerging technologies targets planners who advise their organizations on the adoption of emerging technologies. We feature 36 technologies that have great potential impact or … Continue reading
Dumb TV
TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb … Continue reading
WordPress Widget for Pesquisa SAPO
A few days ago Bruno did a post (in Portuguese) when he decided to start using the new SAPO Search widget. Feedback was very good. After that Ricardo complained that activating that search widget was too complicated for non-technical … Continue reading
Time Person of the Year: You.
Time named all of us as Person of the Year. From the article: It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as … Continue reading
Tagged Web
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If you don’t get Craigslist you don’t get the Web
That is apparently what happened to some Wall Street people while Jim Buckmaster CEO of Craigslist explained: that Craigslist exists to help Web users find jobs, cars, apartments and dates — and not so much to make money. the concept … Continue reading
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Tagged community, craigslist, day to day, individual-motives, users
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Twitter: What are you doing?
I’m doing a bit of Web experimentation on Twitter. It’s a simple service that let’s you post short messages on what you’re doing. It sounds useless but as usual if your social network is there, then the service starts to … Continue reading
Opinion Democracy on the Web (after Le Web 3)
The events at Le Web 3 conference have reminded me how the Web is really a brilliant place for opinion democracy. The story and opinions on it are all over the Web. Tom Morris is doing a very good coverage … Continue reading
Do users care about data portability ?
One of the things that made me use LibraryThing to manage my library is the ability to export my data. This feature has made me feel safe about trying LibraryThing because I could take my data with me if I … Continue reading
MySQL hiccups at SAPO Fotos
I’ve been dealing with a few hiccups at SAPO Fotos. The normal stuff for a website that is over a year and has been growing quite steadily. This is the TCP connections graph of the database server that’s is running … Continue reading
Tagged bind_param, mysql, quotes, tech
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