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A while back I had the opportunity to follow the presentation of engineer Alberto Duque Portugal.

Alberto was formerly director of the Agência de Inovação da Unicamp, president of Embrapa, and is now Secretary of Science, Technology and Higher Education for the State of Minas Gerais. In this role he helps stimulate institutional, educational, economic, technical and social development via initiatives integrated with the Sistema Mineiro de Inovação. Read more…

The Rede Paulista de Incubadoras (São Paulo Network of Incubators) was launched in October 2009 and has the objective of encouraging innovative entrepreneurship through technical, political, institutional and management initiatives. It represents 51 incubators and 800 incubated businesses, and has put together an event called InovaBrasil.

(Update: you can follow ongoing public comment on the event on Twitter.) Read more…

There was a time when we had to depend on the mass media for coverage of events we couldn’t attend. Today the coverage is interactive and collaborative: participants comment live on the internet (Olivia Mitchell has published an interesting ebook about the use of backchannels like Twitter).

Some events, like Intercon, offer platforms to map, encourage and add value to content that the public shares, even calling on the public to write articles for an official collaborative book about the event. Others, like TEDxSP also have real-time coverage via Twitter. Read more…

Here at Startupi we have talked about many web startups and their software apps. We often get more excited about their features, usage scenarios and business models than the technology “under the hood” which makes them work, despite it being the advancement of these technologies that makes their development possible.

Among the main tools for developing web applications is Ruby on Rails (RoR), a programming framework that - among other innovations in its design - incorporates principles of agile development methodologies, and which has become the tool of choice for various web projects like Twitter, and (in Brazil) Blogblogs and Brasigo (both belonging to Grupo Abril). Read more…

The XXVII ENECOMP - National Congress for Students in Computing - begins today and continues until Tuesday. This time it is taking place in the capital of the state of Paraná, Curitiba. Read more…

Hello, all! This weekend the iPhone Dev Camp was held in São Paulo, with an app developers course and various related lectures.

The photo is from the North American event, taken from the site.

It’s a good event. Tell me if you went, okay? And remember this coming week there will be a lecture on the web and a workshop in São Paulo with the founder of Facebook. Cheers!