24 hours of development and integration: 2nd Yahoo! Hack Day
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…
A few weeks ago there was a flurry of hype in Brazil over the launch of a new Orkut invitation-only interface (Orkut being Google’s social network, recently made available for mobile via Android). Argentine social network Sonico just launched a Brazilian interface (their biggest user base is in Brazil), and an iPhone app and announced the placement of a country manager in São Paulo to take care of operations for this expansion. And Facebook is about to announce the winners of the application challenge announced during founder Mark Zuckerberg’s visit to Brazil. Read more…
SocialSmart and Amanaie were present at the Digiday:APPS conference in NYC on August 12th. SocialSmart is based in NY and SP, and includes Startupi in its Brazilian investments. Read more…
At the request of people who participated and those who couldn’t attend, I’ve published a podcast of the conversation between Brazilian bloggers and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Read more…
In his visit to Brazil this week, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (pictured at left) announced a Brazilian Applications Challenge. Aiming at the development of third party applications within Facebook’s own site, as well as integration with external sites, the challenge will offer prize money to Brazilian developers.
Mark has involved the press, bloggers and students in his first visit to Brazil. He arrived Sunday night and stayed in São Paulo, where on the following day he gave interviews and participated in a chat with invited bloggers (including myself).
Read on to learn more about this meeting, see photos, and watch videos of the workshop with developers, which addressed strategies like that which the portal Terra just implemented. 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!
