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…
Good question, no? Unfortunately I am not here to answer that, but to inform you that this Friday I will be moderating a chat with people who know the answers. I will represent the curiosity of our readers, so I am sharing with you this chance to ask your questions. 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…
The number of Facebook users has been growing rapidly in Brazil, and in particular in India. Orkut is still the dominant social network, but the rate of growth is slowing. That said, the number of Orkut users is still millions ahead of Facebook or MySpace.
Orkut has more than 22 million users just in Brazil (according to statistics cited in a recent article in MediaPost, based on data from ComScore), while Facebook has just over 1 million, half of those added in 2009. Other sources suggest Orkut’s userbase in Brazil could be as high as 37 million. In India, Facebook has 3.2 million users and Orkut, 14.5 million. Read more…
