Go on! Give it a click or two.

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http://www.ydreams.com/flyar

Patrícia Martins, young Portuguese tennis hopeful, stopped by the other day and interacted for a bit with our YVision platform. The result is the video below, and as you can see, it’s kind of a different ball game than the one she’s normally used to, but she still excels.

Patrícia’s tennis career is relatively short (she is only 14) but shows incredible promise. On top of that, while visiting us, she was very courteous and nice to everyone around. It’s striking how much focused she seems regarding tennis, but genuinely passionate for the sport. You can see she’s having a lot of fun. Talking to her mother, you could also notice that her other priorities, like school and growing up as a teenager, are also kept in line. It was an honest pleasure having her here, and being able to support and witness her early steps into tennis fame.

Eduardo Dias, one of YDreams co-founders, has recently started a blog called “ATREVE-TE” (in English, “dare to”).

It is written in Portuguese and will focus on Eduardo’s experiences as a young entrepreneur and the company’s building up towards the external investment, among other topics. Eduardo will also shed some light on what he calls the three major assets on which the company was build: the people, the product and the image.

Check it out!
http://senaotentaresnuncaconseguiras.blogspot.com/

Ever since moving into our new headquarters on the FCT New Lisbon University campus, just across the river from Lisbon, we’ve made a point of keeping our company culture well and alive.

We play just about as hard as we work. After all the time spent programming, pitching presentations, brainstorming, developing concepts, crunching numbers and so forth, fun and healthy outlets are required to keep things balanced.

While we may not be located amidst the hustle and bustle of a big city, we are about five minutes away from some of the best beaches in Europe, as well as some pretty great hiking and biking trails just outside the nation’s capital.

So given our serendipitous surroundings, it wasn’t long before people started to get together to organize some pretty cool extracurricular activities.

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This is the challenge set forth by EnerFixe to over 300 schools in the north of Portugal and so far more than 2000 students have chosen to participate!

During 2008 Union Fenosa, an integrated energy operator, challenged YDreams to create a fun, innovative and educational game about energy efficiency. The goal was to reach students between the ages of 8 and 14 and teach them basic day-to-day actions that can lower energy consumption and reduce carbon emissions.

Working alongside BlueShark (a Lisbon-based game-design studio), we developed a point and click game concept. With the help of Union Fenosa’s Familia Blue, the gamer leads the avatar through several scenarios to detect appliances, light switches, air-conditioners and other objects and then make energy efficient choices, which will ultimately affect the electricity bill at the end of the month.

The design concept, created by Spanish designer Antonio Coca, was adapted to fit the game giving Enerfixe a really cool and distinguished look. We than added a fun and hip sound design by YDreams’ very own Nuno Pereira to set the right mood.

And that’s it!!! It really was that easy, because everyone pulled together by pitching ideas, choosing scenarios, defining game behaviors and essentially enjoying themselves.

The game was published online a week ago, and the results are awesome: more than 2,000 players have registered from 110 schools and over 5,500 games (and counting) have been played!

So, I dare you to beat the current best score! You can try it out at: www.enerfixe.com.pt

Just register and start playing. And remember you really can help planet Earth by reducing your daily carbon emissions.

EnerFixe on YouTube

This month’s Exame magazine has an article about innovation in the business world. The piece also features a survey about innovation practices and perceptions in Portugal, and a top 10 of Portugal’s most innovative companies. YDreams ranked 3rd place, behind big players like Renova and Brisa.

The complete ranking:

1 Renova
2 Brisa (Via Verde)
3 YDreams
4 Vodafone
5 Bial
6 Martifer
7 Logoplaste
8 TMN
9 Galp Energia
10 Compal

Wellcome to .yd, a blog about YDreams, YDreamers and all things YDreams (which we hope is plenty to keep you interested). We hope you enjoy your time here, have fun.