What About Brazil » internet http://www.whataboutbrazil.com We provide interesting information and news from Brazil. Learn about biodiesel, sports, culture, politics, portuguese and much more. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:47:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Adriana Lima, Miss Twitter http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/adriana-lima-miss-twitter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adriana-lima-miss-twitter http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/adriana-lima-miss-twitter/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:49:07 +0000 Thiago Prado http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/?p=686 Adrian Lima, Miss TwitterIf Gisele Bündchen over earn Adriana Lima as the best paid super model, the brunette takes a gold medal as the most beautiful on Twitter, according to The Sun The style NTOs had access to the profile – which is private – the top. Well, always beats a question: is it herself or just someone posing as Adriana Lima? But the amount of photo-making of the routine and the girl – if it’s not her, it must be someone very close. In the sixth (29), she posted pictures of scenes of Maybelline’s new campaign.

The Brazilian leads the list with 49 other super  models that use Twitter. To delirium of fans, the photos posted helped decide the ranking. The photos are really amazing. Hayden Panettiere, Jessica Alba, Taylor Swift, Ashanti, Audrey Kitching, Brooke Burke, DJ Tamara Sky, Tila Tequila and Lily Allen are the top 10. Adriana – aka @ misslima “for twitter users on duty – is so popular that it has several profiles, fan-clubs.

Gisele X Adriana

The magazine “Maxim” lists the ten most sexy women of the year and to the surprise of everyone Ms. Brady was out of the list and Adriana took the seventh place. “We apologize to you Tom Brady, the husband of Gisele Bündchen,  but Adriana will now represents the Brazilian beauty,” says the publication. Who disagrees?

And Adriana Lima has not stopped there. Girl-advertisement of Victorias Secret lingerie, has been voted the sixth sexiest woman in the world by the magazine “FHM.” The news of her pregnancy prints magazines and  newspapers around the world. “Marko little or Adri is coming soon ..:) kisses,” was his last post on Twitter.

]]> http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/adriana-lima-miss-twitter/feed/ 9 Internet Marketing Meetup http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/internet-marketing-meetup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=internet-marketing-meetup http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/internet-marketing-meetup/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:49:55 +0000 Thiago Prado http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/?p=479 Since I started to study Internet Marketing this was the first time I attended to a meetup. IANteract Meetup202 was hosted last saturday and as a beginner I really enjoyed especially to hear the experience of the guys who attended.

Ian Fernando was the host and he answered most of the questions brought to the table. AJ and Ron B have a  lot of experience too and shared valuable information with the group.

IANteract Meetup 202

We had the chance to ask questions about anything we feel like. And the guys answered pretty much everything. I hope in the next meetups I can come up with some good question that will help understand better the Internet Marketing industry.

We talked about a lot of stuff, here are some of the topics discussed:

  • Keyword tools to accelerate campaigns.
  • Landing Pages x Direct Link.
  • John Chow, Shoemoney and Zac Johnson’s blog.
  • Prosper 202 and Optimize My Site.
  • Black Ink 2 and PPC Classroom.

In my opinion in the following meetups we should talk more about the new trends and the future of Pay-Per-Click. Many people is saying that PPC is saturated, but I think only 10% of all internet marketers are making six figure income, the whole other 90% are just picking pennies.

]]> http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/internet-marketing-meetup/feed/ 2 Unique Blog Designs 1-Year Anniversary Contest http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/unique-blog-designs-1-year-anniversary-contest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unique-blog-designs-1-year-anniversary-contest http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/unique-blog-designs-1-year-anniversary-contest/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:29:19 +0000 Thiago Prado http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/?p=397

Unique Blog Designs, is one year old and to celebrate they will be running a contest for the remainder of August (until Sunday, August 31st). The contest is open to everyone. So, what are the prizes?

Grand Prize – Brand New 8GB iPod Touch and One Copy of our New UBD Citrus WordPress Theme (coming next week). Three runner-up prizes include copies of our new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme.

How To Enter

  • For one (1) contest entry – just reply to this post with a comment. Only one comment per person will be counted.
  • For five (5) contest entries – write a blog post about the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest and link back to this post. If your blog post does not appear under the “Pingbacks,” leave a comment with a URL to the post.

The winner will be randomly chosen Monday, September 1st, 2008. UBD will draw the winner via streaming video from the UBD office.

Official Contest Rules

  • The contest runs from 12:00AM PST Friday, August 22nd, 2008 to 11:59PM Sunday, August 31, 2008.
  • Winners will be chosen Monday, September 1, 2008 through a random drawing.
  • Only one (1) comment entry per person and one (1) blog entry per person. The total number of entries any person can receive is six (6) entries.
  • Prizes include (1) grand prize of an Apple iPod Touch 8GB ($299 value) and three (3) copies of our new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme ($99 value) – coming next week.
  • Contest is open to everyone world-wide.

Congrats to Unique Blog Designs on their 1-Year Anniversary.

]]> http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/unique-blog-designs-1-year-anniversary-contest/feed/ 1 Summary of June http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/summary-of-june/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=summary-of-june http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/summary-of-june/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:17:34 +0000 Thiago Prado http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/?p=230 Entrecard contest

In the beginning of June I released a contest to giveaway 10,000 Entrecard credits to the blog which drives more traffic to my blog. Until now less then 20 people post an article about it and their chances are pretty huge to win the big prize. If you didn’t write about it yet hurry up the time is running!

Alexa traffic

Beside so many big bloggers talk bad stuff about Alexa that they are not accurate enought I like it. Since I released the Entrecard contest my Alexa traffic skyrocket.

Google position

If you search for “what about brazil“, the name of this blog, the results will show it in second place. I have no idea why Google algorithm does that. The name of the site is the name of the search you’re looking for and even though the name doesn’t show in the first place.

I good example of Google search show inaccurate results are when you look for “john chow dot com”, for some reason Google punished John Chow and push his blog away from the first page.

Technorati authority

Believe it or not my technorati authority jump from 12 to 108 in only one month. I believe that happened because more people found my contest interesting and linked to it. Thanks for the people who linked to my blog.

Comments on the blog

In my opinion if a blog has many comments means that the people who reads it found it interesting to leave a comment on it. I’m glad that some people spent time on my blog and left comments. Thanks everybody.

Advertisement

I’m really thinking of remove all the advertisement I have in my blog. First because it’s not bring me money nor traffic and second because I could use the space to show something interesting like pictures of Brazil or so.

Recently I read so many articles about people who decide to remove the ads from the blog and the readers like it better.

]]> http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/summary-of-june/feed/ 2 Brazil overcomes mark of 40 million people with internet access http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/brazil-overcomes-mark-of-40-million-people-with-internet-access/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazil-overcomes-mark-of-40-million-people-with-internet-access http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/brazil-overcomes-mark-of-40-million-people-with-internet-access/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:30:57 +0000 Thiago Prado http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/?p=228 40 million people with internet access
Brazil internet cafeBrazil last month registered record number of 41,565 million people with Internet access, overcoming the barrier of 40 million Internet users for the first time, according to research done by IBOPE / NetRatings.

The company, which measures the Brazilian Internet since September 2000, also informed that the number of Internet users with access to the web at home also was the largest ever recorded, reaching 35.5 million people.

According to the study coordinator and manager of the company’s analysis of search, Alexandre Magalhaes, the accelerated growth of the market for computers in Brazil and progress in public policies regarding access to the network are the main factors behind this continuous expansion of the Internet in Brazil.

“These figures reflect positive … And the public policy of opening points of Internet access in schools … beyond the avalanche of facilities to purchase new computers … because of competition among manufacturers of computer,” said a released to the press release.

Last month, 23.1 million people surfed on the web at least once in their homes, number 29% higher than in May 2007.

The Brazilian internet user surfed for 23 hours and 48 minutes on average last month ahead of most developed countries like Japan and the United States.

]]> http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/brazil-overcomes-mark-of-40-million-people-with-internet-access/feed/ 2 Dark side of Entrecard – UPDATED http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/dark-side-of-entrecard/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dark-side-of-entrecard http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/dark-side-of-entrecard/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:47:38 +0000 Thiago Prado http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/?p=216 Update » I just received an email from Entrecard crew saying “we’ll settle with a warning” and they returned my credits back to my account.

Two days ago I realized that it was missing plenty of credits from my account, after wonder a while what have had cause that I went to transactions page to check if I had sent someone credits by mistake and then I found a message saying “SPAMMING – STOP OR YOU’LL BE REMOVED” and 4,000 was took away from my account.

Entrecard is being a very important source of traffic to my blog lately however Entrecard crew hurt me really bad.

I sent an email to Graham Landon (Entrecard founder) asking for a explanation about the situation. See the email below »

Graham Langdon,
Today I noticed something really weird in my account. I’m short 4,000 EC Credits.

At first I thought I had send someone the credits by mistake, however when I went to transactions
I realized what have had happened to my account, the message “SPAMMING -STOP OR YOU’LL BE REMOVED”.
To tell you the truth I have no idea why you guys think I’m spamming.
I created a contest to giveaway 10,000 EC credits to the blog which brings more traffic to my blog. Then I sent
some messages to at most 100 people, after 2 people asked me to stop sending messages I stop and that’s it.

And the problem is I didn’t even received a message from Entrecard.com saying something like stop sending messages that
looks like a SPAM.

SPAM for me is some blogs I see everyday that has the Entrecard logo in a page that has nothing but the blog or some people that has more than 5 accounts that looks the same and they promote themselves.

This is totally unfair, if you go to your analysis you can see how much time I spend in Entrecard.com. I think I even stay connected
to Entrecard more than to my email.

I’d like to ask you to please consider to give my credits back, because I have to give to the person who wins the contest. I want to
honor that. I don’t want to be short by the end of the contest.

I treat Entrecard as a family where everybody has to help each other. I never used Entrecard as a SPAM tool to promote my blog.

regards,

Thiago Prado
www.whataboutbrazil.com

Just after a send the message he answered me back in a very rude way. check the email below »

You received about a hundred different complaints over the last few months. Stop spamming people or we’ll close your account, seriously.

The funny part about this story is that I released the contest last week and before this contest I’ve never had sent a message using Entrecard website. It’s impossible the complaints to have happened months ago if I wasn’t even using the service.

Another funny fact is that before May 24th I thought I’ll lose my credits if I drop cards instead of earn credits. So, before this date I didn’t even drop cards using Entrecard.

After I talk to some of my friends that are bloggers they told me that they’ve heard about situations like that involving Entrecard site. I hope this isn’t a strategy to make the user come back to the site and try to get the credits back.

One of my friends even quit Entrecard because the site changed the whole idea of community and started to monetize in every single way.

To tell the truth I didn’t quit Entrecard because I’m having a contest running and I have to pay 10,000 Entrecard credits to the winner. If Entrecard and I don’t settle the situation I don’t know if I will continue being a member of the community after the end of the contest. The deadline of the contest is the end of July.

]]> http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/dark-side-of-entrecard/feed/ 5 thanks to entrecard team http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/thanks-to-entrecard-team/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thanks-to-entrecard-team http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/thanks-to-entrecard-team/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 15:36:36 +0000 Thiago Prado http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/?p=170 Entrecard is truly working out for the best. This week I received 2,000 credits for had writen an article about their new feature and now I’m able to advertise in some of the big blogs out there. Thanks to Entrecard.

For the readers that has no idea what I’m talking about, last monday Entrecard team released a new features to Entrecard users, where we’re able to add more than one blog in the service and drop/advertise individually.
If you’re interested to sign up for the service or check out the service, visit the website.

]]> http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/thanks-to-entrecard-team/feed/ 0 Gadget of the week http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/gadget-of-the-week/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gadget-of-the-week http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/gadget-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 02:12:00 +0000 Thiago Prado http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/?p=140 Have you ever thought of have a USB flash Drive hook up to a regular pen, that’s what we gonna be talking about this week.
A 2GB High Speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive Pen.

This gadget is something that James Bond would definitely have in his collection, this is a very smart solution for portable storage and data transfer with 2GB storage capacity with hi-speed USB 2.0 interface, and it’s compatible with USB 1.1 for the people still have old computers.

Here are some other features:

- Good to store data, pictures, music, and more.
- Its design makes it easy to use.- Very Compact and
- Plug and play – no external power required
- Data on disk can be re-written at least 1,000,000 times
- Chic, fashionable pen with laser pointer

To get one of those just visit John Chow dot com and participate in the contest.

Watch the video of the contest

]]> http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/gadget-of-the-week/feed/ 2 Return on Investment guaranteed on John Chow http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/return-on-investment-guaranteed-on-john-chow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=return-on-investment-guaranteed-on-john-chow http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/return-on-investment-guaranteed-on-john-chow/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:00:02 +0000 Thiago Prado http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/?p=100 John Chow came up with a very good idea of give away 10,000 Entrecard credits for one of his readers to use to advertise the blog. As he said in the article Entrecard is the only way to advertise in blogs like John Chow dot com or proBlogger.net without paying money for it.

For example, the average of the price to advertise in JohnChow dot com and proBlogger.net per day is 4096 credits on Entrecard, the best way to that is to win the 10,000 credits from the contest John created.

My blog is brand new and I don’t have enough money to spend in advertisement right now, for sure if I win the contest it’d help me a lot to increase the visits and as long as people read my blog they can like it and make it popular. Also if I win I will use my credits to buy an Ad at John Chow dot com two times and I know doing that it would increase so much the visits on my blog. Eventually if I win John is going to be able to do the same contest next month because he’s going to have it back right away.

Advertise in blog like John Chow dot com is a Return on Investment guaranteed, if you have money to spend on advertise it’s way better to pay $500 to John Chow write an review about your site than use it with Google adwords or similar service. Just to reinforce the idea, John Chow dot com has over 23,000 people reading its RSS feed everyday, that means if at least 50% of the people click on you link you’ll have over 10,000 unique visitors in the first and probably you’ll have at least 30% or 7,000 for the subsequent 7 days. And your website is going to be linked to his blog as long as the blog exist. Very good deal!

Everybody knows that to make a blog a success it has to become very popular and for that happen the blog has to be seen for a lot of people, if they like it they are going to spread the link to every friend they have and it’ll make the blog popular.

My start as a blogger was after I read an e-book wrote by John Chow about how to make money online, I thought that could be good for me and I persist on the idea, I created my own blog and it’s helping me in many ways. But it takes time to get noticed on the internet unless you lucky to create something new or your blog become viral for some reason.

Since I read that e-book I never stop reading about blogging and how to improve my blog, but the fact is to make money you need money. To make your blog noticeable you have to invest a little bit in advertisement, and to do that you need money or very good friends that want to see you grow(Almost never happen).

]]> http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/return-on-investment-guaranteed-on-john-chow/feed/ 2 Top 10 websites in Brazil by Alexa.com http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/top-10-sites-in-brazil-by-alexacom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-10-sites-in-brazil-by-alexacom http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/top-10-sites-in-brazil-by-alexacom/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:00:36 +0000 Thiago Prado http://www.whataboutbrazil.com/?p=68 Founded in April 1996, Alexa Internet grew out of a vision of Web navigation that is intelligent and constantly improving with the participation of its users. Along the way Alexa has developed an installed based of millions of toolbars, one of the largest Web crawls and an infrastructure to process and serve massive amounts of data. For users of Alexa’s Toolbar and web site this has resulted in products that have revolutionized Web navigation and intelligence. For developers this has resulted in a set of tools unprecedented in scope allowing whole new services to be created on the Alexa data and platform.

Browse the most popular sites on the web based on Alexa.com

1. Orkut

Social networking and discussion site operated by Google.

orkut.com
Site info for orkut.com

2. Google

Brazilian version of Google

google.com.br
Site info for google.com.br

3. Windows Live

Search engine from Microsoft.

live.com
Site info for live.com

4. Universo Online

ISP and other services

uol.com.br
Site info for uol.com.br

5. Google

Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company’s focus is developing search technology.

google.com
Site info for google.com

6. YouTube

YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!

youtube.com
Site info for youtube.com

7. Globo.com

ISP and other services

globo.com
Site info for globo.com

8. Yahoo!

Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.

yahoo.com
Site info for yahoo.com

9. Terra

ISP and other services

terra.com.br
Site info for terra.com.br

10. Blogger.com

Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.

blogger.com
Site info for blogger.com

To check the rest of the list visit Alexa.com

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