Remember Netweaving for Innovation’s trip in which TeiaMG representative Juliana Lima went to Silicon Valley? One of the fruits of this trip came from a conversation she had with the decision makers at Ning.com (a tool for social networks that supports OpenSocial).
Juliana told them about the trends in Brazil, and they decided to offer a Ning Developer Challenge in Brazil. Read more…
Boo-box’s ad system for social media started out this month with good news relating to a good cause. The campaign Pixel Solidarity, created by Ogilvy with the purpose of generating donations to the GRAACC Institute, won the bronze medal from El Ojo de Iberoamerica in the Interactive/Viral Marketing category. It was boo-box who was responsible for the campaign going viral via social media. Read more…
Rio Info: the National Meeting of Business and Technology, is taking place September 9 to 11 in Rio de Janeiro. The theme of this seventh edition is Trends and Opportunities in IT in Times of Crisis.
A jury has already chosen winning innovative solutions entered in five categories (see below). In addition, several participants are announcing very interesting news. Startupi has a representative at the event. 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…
