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Startupi has just become an official media partner of the Brazil Means Business event, which is taking place March 29th in Amsterdam. It’s focused on discussions of the economic opportunities in Brazil and intends to bring together business people and investors for networking and negotiations.

Participation is by invitation. The organizers are offering opportunities for readers of Startupi to participate by showcasing their products, with the chance to do business and perhaps get investments. Read more…

I’m republishing a post from the Social Media Week São Paulo blog. SMW SP is an event co-organized by Startupi, which is taking place February 3-6. The press in other cities hosting the event (New York, San Francisco, Toronto, London and Berlin) wants to know what’s up with social media in Brazil. We are passing the question on to you! 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…

ResultsOn Day (sponsored by the magazine ResultsOn: Intelligent Business) was held again recently, to mark the release of a new issue of the magazine. This event was called Black Sheep, as it focused on selecting the Entrepreneur of the Year and the 49 Startups to Watch - all of them involving innovative people who don’t follow the crowd. 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…

Check out the video of this exclusive interview I had with the founder and CEO of the social network Sonico, Rodrigo Teijeiro, and with Country Manager for Brazil Alexandre de Freitas. Founded in Argentina, this OpenSocial-compliant social network has its largest user base in Brazil (9 million users).  Read more…