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Yesterday evening, a Google Buzz hackathon took place in downtown Lisbon, at the Internacional Design Hotel. The event, which is called a #buzzathon, attracted around 50 participants who were eager to learn more about Google Buzz and how to develop applications that can interact with it.

Think Orange, a Lisbon-based web design & development agency, just launched their first app for the iPhone/iPod Touch dubbed “The Amazing Mechanical Pomodoro“.
The app was developed using the Titanium Mobile framework, and the design is authored by Bauke Schildt. The initial prototype, built without any attention to design but rather focused on a first attempt [...]

Mário Valente gave an interview to Económico.TV about Seedcapital, a portuguese VC mainly focused on web-related startups he started in 2009. For those of you that understand portuguese, it’s worth watching the whole video.
A quick wrap up of some practical information shared in the second half of the video: Seedcapital was born as a way [...]

This post was originally posted here. How do you think this model applies to Portuguese SaaS applications?
The perfect Software as a Service (SaaS) application provides:

an efficient workflow (to DO)
a resource library (to LEARN)
an eco-system / community (to CONTRIBUTE)
a spiral of positive feedback (to GROW)

Efficient workflow (to DO)
Your app’s way of doing [insert your app’s main [...]

After their first (LawRD – reports on demand for Law Firms) and second (Teepin – idea management system) SaaS offerings, muchBeta recently launched Yoomit – a web app that has the intention of simplifying and organizing one’s meetings.
According to MuchBeta’s CEO João Martins this offering is the smallest and most specialized of the three launched so [...]