Magazines and Colors Trends

COLOURlovers is a wonderful resource for everyone - graphic designer,  architect, web designer - that needs (and loves) to use color. It’s a community build around color but it’s also a very useful site. You can check color trends, color palettes and read news and interviews on this topic.

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Magazine and Website Colors
There’s a trends sections that follows what magazines and websites are using in terms of colors. For each magazine there’s an example cover together with the palette and color codes. For each website there’s also a palette and color codes for the colors used.

October 31, 2007 | Tags: , , , , | Leave a Comment 

Updated wine cellar

Boostrapping and developing Adegga barely left me time to update my cellar with the wines I’ve been buying.

Recently I bought a couple of bottles when I was in France and also had the opportunity to buy some not yet released Portuguese wines at a special price.

Here’s the result of the update. My cellar overview is looking much more eclectic: 5 countries and 8 vintages.

Adegga - Overview of Andre Cellar

From my cellar there are a couple of wines that I’m looking forward to try. Three french wines from the Loire valley: Clos du Papillon 2005, Domaine de la Roche Lambert Anjou Elevé en Futs de Chêne 2005 and the Château de Roquemont Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2002. From Italy the Bianco di Custoza Superiore Cà del Magro 2006. And finally from Portugal the Quinta de Chocapalha 2005.

My ratings and notes will appear on my tasted wines.

October 31, 2007 | Tags: , , , | Leave a Comment 

Algarve Buzz

From time to time a site shows up on my radar and I immediately fall in love with it. That’s what happened with Algarve Buzz.

Algarve Buzz
Visit Algarve Buzz for more beautiful photos

Algarve Buzz is a journal about all good things Algarve. (Ms.) Eddie, the writer describes it like this.

We look forward to sharing the trove of treasures to be discovered from beautiful places, beaches, culture and history to incredible food, wine, scores of festivals, nightlife and of course the “Calor” (heat) of the Portuguese Latinos.

The site has a feel good feeling all over it. The design is nice and clean, the pictures are gorgeous and the content is well written and diversified.

This is the normal outcome when someone that lives in a place decides to talk about it so passionately. Definitely a journal to follow. Congratulations Eddie.

With all this feel good feeling, I’m fortunate to be be traveling to the Algarve this weekend. I’ll take the train tomorrow and enjoy the trip thinking about all good things waiting for me.

October 18, 2007 | Tags: , | 1 Comment 

Building a Creative Culture

A few quotes from this very interesting interview on building a creative culture.

Finally, organizations have simply lost a sense of what it actually means to be creative. For some reason, thinking and speaking are accepted as a more important work than thinking and making.

Anyone who has ever been a part of a productive R&D team realizes that trying things and doing experiments is the fastest way to break into new territory.

By putting a priority on thinking and talking (through email, meetings, and PowerPoint) our work activities and environments have become sterile and devoid of the tangible aspects of what were in business to create! 

You can’t tell by going into the offices of most companies what business they are actually in! Consider how challenging that inherently makes it for new people in the organization to understand and contribute creatively.

Creativity matters and the lack of it can kill a company. Read the whole interview.

October 15, 2007 | Tags: | Leave a Comment 

Adegga no Público

A edição deste fim-de-semana do Digital, o caderno sobre tecnologia do Público, trazia um artigo sobre o lançamento do Adegga e sobre o AVIN. O artigo foi escrito pelo jornalista João Pedro Pereira que se interessou pelo projecto e que descreve o que é o AVIN e de que forma se liga com o Adegga.

Logo do Público

Visto que não posso linkar para o artigo* aqui fica um breve descrição do AVIN.

O AVIN é um projecto de criação de um código único para cada vinho. Pretende ser para os vinhos o que o ISBN é para os livros. No entanto, sendo um código baseado num conceito próximo do AVIN da Amazon está adaptado à realidade da Internet onde a maior parte do conteúdos são criados por todos nós.

O projecto faz parte do Adegga e mais tarde, quando tiver mais pormenores, voltarei a falar dele.

* quando é que o público nos vai começar a deixar linkar para os artigos que saem no jornal fisico?

October 15, 2007 | | 5 Comments 

Assuka - Restaurante e Take Away Japonês

Há muitos anos que procuro um restaurante de boa comida japonesa ou asian fusion que me permita comprar um caixinha de comida com dois pausinhos e desfrutar da minha hora de almoço sentado algures ao ar livre.

Assuka

Há algumas semanas, em almoço com um amigo, tive oportunidade de experimentar o novo take away do Assuka que fica no (sacrilégio) Centro Comercial Oerias Parque.Gostei. Gostei muito. Gostei tanto que já repeti a dose no mesmo local. A comida é muito boa e rapidamente confeccionada mesmo à nossa frente. Os (meus) pratos variam entre os habituais Chaahan (arroz frito), Chicken Katsu Curry (frango com caril) e sushi e fiquei sempre bem servido.O preço é uma vergonha! Sim, porque verdade seja dita que comer com esta qualidade por cerca de 5 euros é um luxo e faz-nos sentir que estamos a roubar os cozinheiros.

Entretanto, na última visita fiquei a saber que o Assuka de São Sebastião da Pedreira (ali perto de onde nascemos todos em Lisboa) também tem take away! Quando trabalhava no sapo havia vários e bons restaurantes japoneses na zona incluindo o Assuka. Mas não havia take away e agora há. update: Afinal havia, eu é que não conhecia.

Assuka - take-way
Telefone: 213 528 027
Morada: Rua São Sebastião da Pedreira, nº224
1050-209 LISBOA
Email: assuka@assuka.com

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Assuka mapa endereço

October 15, 2007 | Tags: , | 9 Comments 

Adegga launched!

I’m very pleased to announce that Adegga is officially launched. Here’s the official announcement.

Adegga Homepage

For the moment, Adegga accounts will be available by invitation only (more at the FAQ). Nevertheless, everyone who registers (via an invite) will get a couple of new invites to send.

A special thanks André Cid and Emídio Santos for all the effort that was done creating Adegga. It was hard work mostly during rest or sleep hours. Thank you.

Thanks also to Bruno Pedro who has been advisoring Adegga technicaly and to all the other non-executive (had to use a corporate word somewhere) team members

As I’ve written on Adegga’s blog:
Adegga is only starting. We have several features that we’re finishing and will be launching in the coming weeks. There’s so much coming up. So many interesting things we wished we had them all to launch! We hope you enjoy using Adegga as much as we enjoyed building it.

October 10, 2007 | | 12 Comments 

Time Out Lisboa - Número 2

O número 2 da revista que saiu a semana passada confirma a qualidade do projecto. Um artigo muito interessante sobre os locais para beber a melhor bica, mais umas óptimas reviews de restaurantes e uma listagem infindável de coisas para fazer em Lisboa.

Time Out Lisboa - Número 2

Para os mais interessados sobre os bastidores da revista, soube entretanto mais umas coisas. A Time Out Lisboa é publicada pela Capital da Escrita (se têm site, o Google não sabe disso) sob licença do Grupo Time Out. Os escritórios da Time Out Lisboa são partilhados com os do Diário Digital (com quem felizmente não partilham a linha editorial…).

Com tanta proximidade (incluindo de estrutura accionista), não é de admirar que o futuro site da Time Out Lisboa fosse parar à rede SAPO no endereço timeout.sapo.pt.

October 3, 2007 | Tags: | Leave a Comment 

What is Adegga?

We have shown some screenshots but we haven’t said much about what is project all about. Here’s a short explanation of Adegga.

Adegga logo

What is Adegga?
Adegga is an online service that helps you discover and choose wine by sharing your opinions with people you trust.

Adegga lets you build a personalized Watchlist so that you can keep track of what people on your list are choosing and tasting. You can add friends, wine bloggers, producer and just about anyone else. You can also add wine producers and wine shops to your personalized Watchlist so that you keep track of when a producer releases a new wine or a wine shop makes a promotion.

Adegga also helps you organize your wines. You can keep track of wines you taste, make a wishlist or organize your home cellar.

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Screenshot details: (a) Wine notes from Your Watchlist (b) Wine Browse by type

So what can you do with Adegga?
Here’s a short list of situations where you can use Adegga.

  • See which wines you have in your cellar.
  • Read what people you trust think about a specific wine you want to try.
  • Lookup up prices for a wine you’re thinking of buying.
  • See which wines you’ve tasted to check if you have tried a wine before.
  • Check your Wishlist before your next visit to the wine shop.
  • Check if someone you trust has a specific bottle of wine.
  • Review that amazing wine shop you’ve just bought wine from.
  • See what promotions your favorite wine shop is running this week.
  • Read what wine bloggers are saying about a wine (soon).

There’s more that you can do on Adegga and there’s more that we want you to be able to do.

Note: I’ll be cross-posting some posts with the Adegga Blog as they both relate to me and Adegga at the same time.

October 3, 2007 | | 1 Comment 

Adegga Launching Soon!

I’m happy to announce that we’re approaching the launch of Adegga.

The past couple of months we’ve been receiving great feedback from our lovely beta-testers (thank you!). We’ve turned lots of suggestions into features and it’s now time to start talking about them.

We have written about the Wine List Overview feature and we’ll be showing other features on the Adegga blog. For a start, here’s a screenshot of the homepage when you’re logged in.

Adegga - User Home
Your home at Adegga

We’ll be sending an email soon to the 500 people who have asked to be notified of our launch. If you haven’t subscribed and would like to do, please enter your email address on the Adegga signup form.

October 2, 2007 | | 1 Comment 

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