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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: January 2007
Gestural interfaces changing the way we work and play
Jeff Han and Phil Davidson demonstrate how a multi-touch driven computer screen will change the way we work and play. The Wii uses another kind of gestural interface (with a device) that is already making people interact and play games … Continue reading
Book: Founders at Work
Founders at Work is a new book with interviews with founders of famous technology companies. People like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail). There’s a very interesting free chapter interview … Continue reading
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The User Experience Honeycomb
In my search for User Experience evaluation tools I found the User Experience Honeycomb. I think a it’s visually nice and useful concept so I’ll share it. What is it ? It is a simple diagram that visually organizes a … Continue reading
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4 years old
This blog is now 4 years old (online since Jan 19th, 2003). I started it by playing with blogger. I soon discovered that I need a proper domain so I registered delaranja.com and moved the blog to blog.delaranja.com which gave … Continue reading
Blog changes to improve user experience
Some people have complained that this blog is too slow to load and too cluttered. It has too many bells and whistles that are not really needed and end up adding no value to the user experience. From feedback I … Continue reading
LIFT07 is next week
LIFT is next week and I’ll be there again. Like last year it’s freezing cold in Geneva ( currently -1ºC ) but Laurent and the team have done a great job in keeping people busy inside the International Conference Centre … Continue reading
Lovely Wii
The last console I owned was more than 10 years ago, a Game Boy which I really enjoyed playing with. I mostly played Tetris and at the time it was a real revolution to be able to carry that console … Continue reading
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Markets are conversations
“Most marketing programs are based on the fear that the market might see what’s really going on inside the company.” This statement is from the The Cluetrain Manifesto and represents the way marketing is done. Thomas Madsen-Mygdal used it in … Continue reading
Social entrepreneurship through search
GoodSearch has found a nice way to do some good while still running a business. (via Read / Write) GoodSearch is a Yahoo-powered search engine that shares 50% of it’s revenues with a charity you can choose. You define which … Continue reading
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Tagged day to day, social-entrepreneurship, social-responsibility
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Affordable Europe: Lisbon
Through my daily read of Londonist I found a New York Times article on affordable London. A bit more reading and it was nice to find out there’s also one on affordable Lisbon. (photo by ohcaptain) Despite the small size … Continue reading
