Global Web Index last report showed what users and some specialists had already observed: Google+ is growing fast and this trend seems to last. It is the second social network with 25% of active users (YouTube, 21%, Twitter 21% and Facebook 51%).




The new Ubuntu Operating System for Mobile Devices will be available for developers this week, at Feb. 21rst, when a Touch Developer Preview of Ubuntu - for Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 devices - will be published. Learn more.





Founded in February 14th, 2005, by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, YouTube is now 8 years old. The young company was bought the following year by Google in March 9th, 2006 for $1.65 billion. It was Google's most expensive acquisition to date for a software startup and it was hailed as a "triumph of online video phenomenon" on CNN Money by Fortune's David Kirkpatrick. Learn more...




By the end of March, for the first time, the number of smart phones will overcome feature phones. Gartner report from Feb 13, 2013 point out this new and irreversible trend.

Actually, this new trend was already expected for 2013. More smartphones, more mobility, more video for mobile devices and so on. Definitively, this shift will affect use of applications and websites created especially for smartphones and/or tablets. Learn more




As I was reading the article "Why a stream of consciousness will kill off websites" written by John Naughton in the Guardian (Feb 10, 2013) I started remembering the fabulous and sometimes silent changes the web has known since it has been launched in 1991. Learn more




Google's Doodle for Chinese New Year - Google's Hong Kong website celebrates the Chinese New Year with an animated doodle representing a snake, as this year is the Year of the Snake in chinese calendar. Learn more



Highspots are Salvador, Rio de Janeiro and Olinda

2013 is the year of Social Carnival by YouTube's team. Featuring Salvador, Rio de Janeiro and other famous Brazilian Carnivals, such as Olinda, Ouro Preto (offering hot camera), São Luís do Maranhão and Pirenópolis (Goiás).
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Google just released Chrome browser users an interactive experience exciting. This is the Way to Find Oz, the product of a partnership between the Internet search giant with Walt Disney and Unit9.

Thanks to the latest HTML5 technologies available, the user interacts with the web application and create your own itinerary of a journey through the vibrant world of the circus. Learn more in Find in Your Way to Oz.


A show with great technology. It's the feeling that we have to follow the news about the 2013 edition of Campus Party in Sao Paulo.

In the lectures virtually all topics related technologies are discussed. Training to the creation of startups (startups, in English), through debates on Marco Civil Internet and the free programs. Learn more in Campus Party em São Paulo.

Ari Oliveira ♦


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