Business 7 things to kickoff 2014

Rest assured, this is not going to be one of those boring and emotional posts about the new year. This is about all the things I have been doing these last …

Bruno Amaral
Bruno Amaral
1 January, 2014
Geek X-Ray of a broken political system

The picture in this post is an infographic built by Pedro Cruz. The circles represent portuguese companies. The bigger the circle, the more politicians …

Bruno Amaral
Bruno Amaral
29 December, 2013
Why Socialbakers’ Engagement Rate is not a solid metric

We have seen it before: <img class=“size-full wp-image-1634 alignnone” alt=“socialbakers-engagement-rate” …

Bruno Amaral
Bruno Amaral
27 December, 2013
Business A mobile app is born

A bit of context, a portuguese investments bank (BPI) organised a hackday, a challenge to build a mobile app in 24 hours or less, called Appy Day BPI. …

Bruno Amaral
Bruno Amaral
18 December, 2013
Lisbon
Creativity Christmas 2013

Bruno Amaral
Bruno Amaral
15 December, 2013
Business Meet the Lisbon Photowalkers

Over the last 4 weeks I have been working, together with Basílio, in building something new around the community of photowalkers in Lisbon. It is something …

Bruno Amaral
Bruno Amaral
24 November, 2013
The grain of salt in Engagement Rates

The engagement rate for a Facebook Page is often used as a benchmark for performance against competitors and similar pages. It isn’t however so cut …

Bruno Amaral
Bruno Amaral
5 November, 2013
A country of emigrants “My comfort zone became too uncomfortable”

Ignore what the prime-minister said: you don’t have to leave Portugal. If you want to be 20 minutes away from your friends’ birthday …

22 October, 2013
Geek Where is your lab?

Like many others, I sometimes go out and find a different spot where I can sit and work on all the things that are not a part of my day job. It …

Bruno Amaral
Bruno Amaral
14 October, 2013
Communication A country of emigrants A country of emigrants, and a world of stories

Lately I have been stumbling upon a number of news articles about Portugal, about the economic crisis, about how the portuguese are leaving home in search …

Bruno Amaral
Bruno Amaral
4 October, 2013