Danilo Fernandes asked a while back: “what’s the craziest way you’ve come across to monetize a business?” Playing along, I suggested, as an example, “I get more expensive with every question I answer, so ask soon, before the price goes up!”
Moments later Marcelo Cazado asked me if I’d seen the Twitter profile for sale. [Image above left: "Selling twitter with more than 40,000 followers. Price R$250. Interested?"] Read more…
Remember Migre.me, the first URL shortener which offered stats on popularity? Well, it was quite a success and led to a whole slew of Brazilian web projects.
Now the folks at KingoLabs (a startup called one of the best of the year by ResultsOn) have launched the first online “yellow pages” type directory, which instead of listing telephone numbers lists Twitter handles! Read more…
You know how things work in Brazil, in business, on the Internet, in interior parts of the nation, and in the minds of kids, right? You know where innovation comes from and how it follows and precedes changes in habits?
I don’t, thanks very much! I look at the big picture, sure, but I also try to keep an eye out for the overlooked things, something that might scale into a game changer.
Check out this kid who is just entering high school, who has studied programming since he was 10 years old, created products since he was 12, has real partners and has helped one of the most talked about crowdsourcing collectives in the country. Read more…
Everyone heard Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, say that the social media tool was created by accident, and that it’s important to think like an artist or designer. What he never said was that a Brazilian was leading the product design at Twitter at the mere age of 20.
At the age of 22, Vitor Lourenço - who is from São Paulo but now lives in San Francisco - is now an Interactive Designer with 7 years experience. His projects have been used by millions of people around the world. Read more…
This week saw the launch of a startup that provides ad campaigns for Twitter for users who want to monetize their Twitter streams.
It’s a concept that’s more narrowly focused than that of boo-box, for example, and more formal than the idea of the often disliked “paid Tweet.” The power of TwittePaga is in its simple and efficient technology for registering participants and tracking the performance of the links. Read more…
Did you try using the tag #trick in your tweets today? Strange things can happen if you use the tag #treat, too. Seriously!
“Trick or treat” is the American expression used by costumed children on Halloween (October 31st) to get candy from their neighbors.
This is the first time Twitter has followed Google’s “wave”, a long history of customizing their logo for special days. Oddly, today Google hasn’t done it.
This post written by designer André Sato for Startupi.
