Written by Adriano Marques CEO
Work like you Sleep07 May, 2011
Ok, I'm not going to tell you to work like you sleep in the sense of how much work you get done out of your sleep time. Actually, there is a much more interesting perspective to that relation. After watching this TEDx Midwest talk, I just confirmed what I always believed to be true but in a very well explained manner: Interrupting work is just like interrupting your sleep. With a 4 months old baby boy, I just realized how bad it is to your attempt to get some rest when you are interrupted 3 or
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Linked07 May, 2011
Just finished with listening to this Audiobook [http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B002V57UX2&qid=1304775060&sr=1-1], and it was so amazing that I wanted to share it here in my blog. Drawn by my interest on Networks (no, I don't mean the computer networks here) and the science behind it, just decided to give a this book a try, and I was amazed on all the sorts of networks mentioned in this book and how they relate to each other. From Hollywood networks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_D
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Google Summer of Code 201125 April, 2011
As you may already know, Umit Project [http://www.umitproject.org/] is in as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2011, and it happens that we just got through the selection process, and earlier today Google announced the winning students [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/04/students-announced-for-2011-google.html] ! This year, Umit received 42 proposals, from 40 talented students from almost all continents in the world! We were absolutely astonished with so many talente
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Open Source To The Rescue20 April, 2011
Open Source is the key to innovation. Innovation requires a lot of effort and while most companies rely on a limited amount of experts to develop the things they need, others open source [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source] whatever they develop and get a crowd of experts [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing] testing, using, debugging and contributing to their software in a scale that no company can afford to maintain. That's why Linux is the most advanced operating system in mos
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Web Access is a Human Right15 April, 2011
Yesterday I read an article [http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/041211-mit-berners-lee.html?hpg1=bn] summarizing a speech from Tim Berners-Lee [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee] at a MIT [http://mit.edu] symposium comparing web access to water. His speech covered other topics on his perspective of the future of the web, but the thing that most caught my attention was his statement that web access should be considered a human right [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights]. Li
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Irony: The major icon of USA space race found its rest at the week of the 50th anniversary of first man in space12 April, 2011
NASA just announced the final home for the space shuttles, and Endeavour will rest at the California Science Center [https://californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/mission-26-big-endeavour], in Los Angeles. It is a bit ironic that this week we were celebrating the 50 years since first time man visited space, and we get the news on where the major icon of American's space 'endeavors' are going to rest forever, reminding us of the beginning of an era when USA is going to completely rely on Soyuz [
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New hybrid engine to save up to 90% of auto emissions?09 April, 2011
A while ago, I had the chance of driving a hybrid car, at the time they have just arrived in Europe and people were beginning to draw interest for this sort of car. At that time, I was sure that hybrid cars would be the next auto revolution. I'm not saying it because I don't believe in fully electric cars, but that technology isn't ready yet. Hybrids are certainly going to be the next step before fully electric cars. Drive one, and you'll figure it. All the hassles of electric cars (recharging
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Loyalty Mobile01 June, 2010
It looks like cell phones today have so many features that it is becoming less phone and more everything else. The new trend, when it comes to transforming your mobile phone into something else, is turning it into a Loyalty Card Collector. Startups like CardStar [http://www.mycardstar.com/] and CardBank [http://www.barcode2mobile.com/] already offer business a solution that uses barcodes to virtualize loyalty cards and store them in mobile phones. There are plenty of others, like Foursquare [htt
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Readers' Social Network26 May, 2010
It is wonderful how powerful communication through social media is. If you simply start following the right people on Twitter [https://twitter.com/a_dria_no], you'll get a clear glimpse of what is happening around the world, as well as local and worldwide trends. Just mentioned that, because I was reading some tweeks, and came across one that was sent by a Social Network for avid book readers, and that is ultra cool. Just took some time, and signed in to that social network (called Skoob [http
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Rework23 May, 2010
Outstanding book for entrepreneurs looking into inspiration for addressing common development dilemmas like whether to reed to customer's suggestions or how to approach software development for maximizing profit and deliverability. Focused on startups whose main product is the software they develop, and wrote by the founders of 37 signals, this book breaks most of the old common sense understandings on how a company should be built and how software development should be managed based on their ow
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Software Patents not worth the effort?08 April, 2010
This week I read an article from Erik J. Heels [http://erikjheels.com/?p=2167], where he states that patents are not always worth a try for startups, mainly when it comes to software patents. Well, it happens that I have being reading about this subject lately, and sometimes I do agree, sometimes I don't. Although being expensive and time consuming, patents do give its owner a reasonable advantage over competitors avoiding them from stealing the idea. Ok, I agree that it doesn't always avoid t
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People08 March, 2010
Not a quick read, but it is definitely well worth it. The 7 habits put your behavior into perspective, and helps you understand where you've being failing. Life doesn't come with a manual, and we all go on with continuing our habits, good or bad, the way we have always done, and the way we always believe was right. When you put your habits against those of people who are successful is when you learn what you've being doing wrong all along. Quick list of the 7 habits: 1. Be Proactive 2. Begi
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