Monday at 4pm was the launch of the e-book “Everything you need to know about Twitter (you already learned in a bar).” As the title suggests, the electronic book is a guide to using Twitter. It was written by Juliano Spyer, with a preface by Marcelo Tas. Read more…
He is 25 years old, with a casual manner and enormous success: the idea he had turned into one of the most-used web services in the world, and they say it was influential in electing Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States.
He is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg; the toy he created that lays the golden eggs is Facebook; and he will be here in Brazil to give a lecture (to be transmitted via the web) and a workshop Tuesday, August 4th (see links below).
And what of it? What does this mean for him and for Facebook? And for the Brazilian Facebook users? If you don’t think this is very important, now’s the time to reconsider! After all, “what’s on your mind?” I say: welcome to the Brazilian Guide to Facebook!
Continuing the coverage of web startups from FGV Latin Moot Corp (a business plan competition), the second presentation of the day was for CineDica. The idea is to offer a social network for lovers of cinema, in which users send and receive suggestions for films to see based on their profile. Other paid services are also aggregated in CineDica. Read more…
This week a news site called youPode launched. As the name implies, it’s a news site where people can submit material on serious subjects. I spoke to one of the creators of the project, journalist Dacio Malta, to learn more about it. Read more…
