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Brazilians are lining up to blog

Posted on by charlie

Link: Brazilians are lining up to blog photos.

Only 500 people per country can join each day. I just joined and was the 149th American today. But Seifer says the Brazilians tap out their 500 within the first 15 minutes after midnight.

I just came back from Brasil and spoke with the leading service providers and operators there (in Portuguese, natch). Blogging is really big. Mobile blogging is, too.

A few things I saw:

  • There is a service provider, UOL, that really gets mobility – they not only have mobile blogs, but their blogs are easily read from mobiles or PC web browsers. That’s great.
  • I heard that Fotolog (mentioned above) actually has a huge percentage of Brasilians on their service.

  • I heard that Buzznet also have a large number of Brasilians on their service.

  • Orkut, from Google, apparently is mostly made of Brasilian users. Go figure.

I bet Brasilian-Portuguese is the 3rd most common blogging language (after American-English and French-French). In all my travels, I have never seen such a deep penetration and understanding of blogs outside of the US or France (don’t get me talking about Europe in general).

Indeed, I think the US, Brasil, and France show best the different aspects of where blogs have come from, what makes them successful, and where they are going.

charlie

5 Comments

  1. Right on….I get this mixed feeling about blogging and my having become a mobile enthusiast. First thing first, living in Germany means a lot of formal constraints. Calling using your cellphone can cost you a fortune. SMS and MMS costs are still phenomenally high (don’t know about other European countries though, but comparing to Asia *gah*). The blogging community is almost non-existential…well, there are some, but it’s not so vivid as I’d like to see. MoBlog? I don’t think I’ve heard about anyone doing it apart from me (well, at the moment, and I just figured it out last week with your help…there’s the cost problem too).
    Then there’s the other side, focusing on blogging and moblogging…it gives me a sense of exclusivity. However, I sometimes really want to communicate with those who do it here in real life, but can’t seem to find anyone. *sigh*

  2. Sorry for double posting, but I remembered something. Now that I’m MoBlogging, there’s one thing I’d like to say. With LifeBlog, it’s a bit of an annoyance that you can’t save your MoBlog entry as a draft before sending it, but you either have send it right away or to cancle the whole thing and re-do it all over again. Maybe it’s something to think about when the new version of LifeBlog be released.
    BTW, what’s the latest version of LifeBlog available at the moment? I’m using 1.6

  3. Just adding to your post about Brazilians deep interest on Blogging.
    – Brazil is the only country that have a official translation of Blogger.com
    – On Orkut, 71% are Brazilians and it already have a official translation to Portuguese. (http://www.orkut.com/MembersAll.aspx)
    – Another success in Brazil is the interest in digital pictures (camera phones included), so it is the access to “photo focused” sites like FlickR and Fotolog.net
    Any product that you launch in Brazil that make possible for people to express themselves on Internet will be a success.

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