AVIN on 20 million bottles
- At 12:05 18 Jul '10
- By leo
AVIN (a unique 13 digit number, which acts like an ISBN for books, but is used for tracking wine) has been gaining impressive momentum and is currently printed on over 20 million bottles worldwide. See one of the codes in action here. Originally a side-effort from Adegga (social wine discovery) to keep track of all wines [...]
An update on Adegga
- At 11:38 18 Jul '10
- By leo
Adegga, a social wine discovery by André Ribeirinho (chosen Person of The Year in Portugal’s wine scene), André Cid and Emídio Santos, just launched a new Design to turn their site friendlier to the user and to accommodate a bunch of new features.
The design was crafted by Corefactor (Hugo Baeta was involved), who share their [...]
Second UX Lx edition in 2011
- At 00:15 18 Jul '10
- By leo
- Under event
2010’s User Experience Lisbon conference was a huge and unanimously recognized success, with 420 participants coming from 25 countries. Now, their organizers (Usability consultants Ideias e Imagens and APPU, Association of Portuguese Usability Professionals, both very well represented through a state-of-the art curator Bruno Figueiredo) just announced a second edition for 2011.
The dates are 11-13 of May and [...]
Portuguese Startup Lists
- At 18:21 17 Jul '10
- By leo
- Under startup
I stumbled upon this article at Hacker News with a great collaborative spreadsheet of portuguese startups. The spreadsheet is pretty complete, although it also contains some dead/zombie projects and some companies that probably won’t exactly fit the definition of startup (New business venture in its earliest stage of development).
Also relevant (and cited on the spreadsheet) [...]
Hub Porto – Novo Espaço de Coworking
Foi inaugurado no passado dia 24 de Julho o primeiro espaço de coworking da cidade do Porto. Tive a oportunidade de comparecer ao evento e de ficar encantado com a qualidade do espaço. Este segue o modelo implementado pelo Hub em Inglaterra, e está disponível a ser “habitado” a partir de Agosto por uma “pechincha”, [...]