Webreakstuff


A blog on entrepreneurship, user experience, and web innovation. Published by Fred Oliveira.

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  1. Thoughts on the App Store experience details »
    blog.webreakstuff.com Posted 1 day ago by Fred Oliveira

    I’m an Apple fan - no use denying it. As such, I’m used to great experiences when using their products. So it sort of rubs me the wrong way when Apple...

  2. Techcrunch’s Tablet project details »
    blog.webreakstuff.com Posted 2 days ago by Fred Oliveira

    Sometimes the pieces just fall into place. Two years ago I was writing about needing a better connected device. Then the iPhone launched, and people (some people, not...

  3. Lively launches, but is it relevant? details »
    blog.webreakstuff.com Posted 2 weeks and 1 day ago by Fred Oliveira

    Today was a weird / exciting day for virtual worlds. This morning, a virtual-world startup called Vivaty launched a room-building product that lets you chat with your...

  4. Free doesn’t mean Fail details »
    blog.webreakstuff.com Posted 9 weeks and 1 day ago by Fred Oliveira

    I was just done reading Alexander Muse’s post about Microblogging being a mess and just as I was going to twit about it, Twitter was (you guessed it) down with a...

  5. OXPC? Thoughts on Windows XP on the OLPC details »
    blog.webreakstuff.com Posted 9 weeks and 6 days ago by Fred Oliveira

    If you’ve been around Techmeme in the last few hours you probably read about the agreement between Microsoft and One Laptop Per Child about making Windows XP...

  6. Web 2.0 Expo Europe - Call for Proposals details »
    blog.webreakstuff.com Posted 9 weeks and 6 days ago by Fred Oliveira

    This year’s Web 2.0 Expo Europe is happening from the 21st to the 23rd of October in Berlin. If you have been to a Web 2.0 Conference you know how relevant it is...

  7. MSFT and YHOO: It’s finally over details »
    blog.webreakstuff.com Posted 11 weeks and 4 days ago by Fred Oliveira

    It’s already all over the news so you probably know already - Microsoft walked away from buying Yahoo because they ultimately couldn’t agree on price. Yahoo...

  8. Learn Ruby on Rails with our team details »
    blog.webreakstuff.com Posted 12 weeks and 1 day ago by Fred Oliveira

    This will be of no interest if you’re not in Portugal - my apologies to those of you who get this on your feed reader and can’t make much use of it. If...

  9. Seen elsewhere this week details »
    blog.webreakstuff.com Posted 14 weeks and 4 days ago by Fred Oliveira

    Here’s a few of the things that caught my eye on the blogosphere this week. This is sort of a way to apologize for the lack of proper posts (which I’ll be...