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Below are reports sent in by Edmilton Neves and Roberto Fermino about The Developer’s Conference, which took place recently in São Paulo:

Report from Roberto Fermino:

The Developer’s Conference - TDC2010 - took place the 20-22 of August. It was an event designed by and for developers, which means it was well focused on it’s audience, with thirteen different “paths” offered. Read more…

You know how things work in Brazil, in business, on the Internet, in interior parts of the nation, and in the minds of kids, right? You know where innovation comes from and how it follows and precedes changes in habits?

I don’t, thanks very much! I look at the big picture, sure, but I also try to keep an eye out for the overlooked things, something that might scale into a game changer.

Check out this kid who is just entering high school, who has studied programming since he was 10 years old, created products since he was 12, has real partners and has helped one of the most talked about crowdsourcing collectives in the country. Read more…

The Facebook Applications Challenge was launched in August, when Mark Zuckerberg visited Brazil.

Entries were taken until October 19th and in November Facebook began reviewing them to choose the winners.

The winners were announced January 20th on Facebook’s page about the Challenge. Read more…

Brazilian developers, start your engines! It’s time to show your talent as a developer at the 2nd Yahoo! Open Hack Day, taking place March 20-21 in São Paulo, Brazil.

This is a Brazilian spin-off of the traditional Yahoo! Open Hack Day which originally took place on the Sunnyvale campus and now has versions in London, Bangalore, New York and Djakarta. The last Open Hack Day in Brazil (in November 2008) was a tremendous success, with approximately 200 participants and thousands of cool hacks! Read more…

Those who use the Internet are familiar with Flash, used to create rich media experiences in various sites, games, social apps, smartphones and touchscreen devices. Brazil has one of the largest communities of developers and experts for this product from Adobe (originally from MacroMedia). In fact, a Brazilian developer went to work for rich media shop EFM in San Diego, became the Interactive Director, and is now bringing an event to Brazil to further encourage adoption of the platform.

“The objective of Flash Camp Brazil is to showcase Adobe’s platform, which consists of Flash, Flex and AIR. There are a number of companies in Brazil developing great solutions; they will be attending the event, speaking along with international experts, and interacting with the audience.” 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!

• If you are interested in the lecture at the Entrepreneur Forum, at FGV in São Paulo (just for students): it will be transmitted via the web at 11am on Tuesday, August 4th, at this link;
• If you want to know about the Garage Day workshop, it is also in São Paulo on August 4th, from 5-7pm, only for pre-registered developers (it has been filled for days, but see more information here);
• If you are curious about the impact of the Facebook phenomenon, and want to think about how it will really affect the Brazilian market and your life, read on.

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