Carnival’s coming… and Ticies took the opportunity to create the challenge #TiciesnaFolia!

It’s easy to participate. Print this seagull, take it to your carnival revelry, take a picture and post it on our facebook.com/ticies page or on your Twitter with the hashtag #TiciesnaFolia. After that, just ask your friends to like it or retweett your image. The top three liked and the top three retweetted will receive, at home, an exclusive Ticies’ kit.

If you can’t print it, write on a sheet #TiciesnaFolia and ticies.com. You can participate with as much photos as you want. Oh, there’s more… The most unusual photo will also win a kit! Spread this challenge to your friends and enjoy carnival in peace. Good luck!

Rules: 1. Each participant can only win one kit in the challenge; 2. The photos must be submitted between 02/15 and 02/25/2012 (Brasília official time); 3. The “points” counting for the prizes will happen on Monday (02/27); 4. The most unusual photo will be judged by an internal committee of Ticies; 5. The winners will be announced on Monday (2/27), on ticies.com/blog and the information will be replicated on Ticies’ social networks (Facebook and Twitter); 6. It will only be considered winners the participants who have an account on Ticies; and 7. The kits will be mailed to the address provided by the winners.

Join ticies.com, follow us on Twitter @ticies and like our Facebook page Ticies.

At Campus Party Brazil, Ticies launches the first cities, presents its tool and pleases the participants of the event.

Launched for less than a month, the social network Ticies was presented at the biggest technological event of the world, Campus Party, which in 2012 successfully reached its 5th edition in Brazil. Over 200,000 people visited the Expo zone of the event, between the 7th to the 11th of February, 2012.

The Anhembi Park received about 7000 campus people, who spent a week camping and connected to the Internet (20GB connection), always creating, playing, sharing, downloading and uploading files, besides the usual socializing. All that was shared was followed by the hashtag #CPBR5, which gave the coordinates of the meeting.

To present Ticies and cheer the nerds and geeks team, who were mostly men, on Tuesday, 02/07/2012, we brought the former panicat, Juju Salimeni to the event. The girl could’ve received the ‘miss congeniality’ title, and showed that she’s always connected (always with her smartphone in hand) and said she loved the experience of publicizing Ticies for everybody.

During the following days, between speeches and workshops, we performed many actions with Campus people, who liked the idea of the new social network. Many of them have created their account on the network and got to know closely how Ticies’ work. Some, more interested, hit upon the challenge of becoming City Owners.

To end our participation in the event with a flourish, on Friday, 10/02/2012, we raffled a MacBook Air. The lucky one who took the machine home was Computer Engineering student, Vinicius Pacheco, from Goiânia/GO (Brazil). Very happy, the young man spoke with our advisory body, “Ticies is a cool tool, I intend to use it more and invite my friends to interact with this new social network.”

About Ticies

Ticies is a worldwide city guide, focused in providing information about establishments, tourist attractions, events and service providers around the world. On Ticies, who registers and takes care of the information from each city are the City Owners, who, as a compensation, receives 51% of everything that the city sells in advertising.

The auctions were opened on January 19th, 2012. After 27 days from the releasing date, Ticies now has 257 active cities and other 299 with open auction (or being activated). To learn more, access the website www.ticies.com and our blog, www.ticies.com/blog.

Check out the cities that are already active and available for users:

And those who have the auction started:

Ticies – The Worldwide City Guide

The system integrates social networks and places’ indicators and it may guarantee extra money for the users.

Joaquim Venancio, CEO and creator of Ticies (Image source: Baixaki / Tecmundo)

How about being the owner of your own city? That’s what Ticies, the social network, is offering for thousands of users all over the world. Created by Joaquim Venancio (former Chief of Channels at Banco do Brasil), Ticies system works as follows: Commercial establishments of the world may be registered for consumers to have access to information about restaurants, cafes, doctors and more.

But what about the “buying of the City”? To allow the establishments to be registered it is required that the city already has an Owner (that person is responsible to moderate everything that tries to be inserted on Ticies’ pages). That owner needs to acquire the title in an auction.

In other words, if you enter on the service page, search for a city and if it doesn’t have an owner, you can make your bid. From the first bid, it will be a 120 hours auction until the outbider wins the auction. The owner of each city will have the responsiblity to organize the registered themes and, in exchange, will get 51% of all the revenue generated by the city.

(Image source: Published / Ticies)

And where does this money come from? Any establishment can register on Ticies for free, in a basic package. But if it wants to buy more space, having the right to other features, it can opt for the Gold or Platinum version. Its values varies according to each city (more than 400 cities have been purchased).

We talked to Ticies’ CEO, Joaquim Venancio, who is at Campus Party Brazil 2012. He said that the site is on air for a few weeks, but the portable version is already being developed by the company. In case you want to access the site, that is 100% national, click here.

Juju Salimeni is the poster girl of the new social network, Ticies.
Photo: Mauro Horita / Land / Rafael Maia – Direct from São Paulo

Former panicat and current member of the “Legendários” program, from Rede Record, Juju Salimeni passed by Campus Party 2012 this Tuesday afternoon. She is the poster girl of Ticies, the new social network, which aims to be a worldwide city guide, in which users can register and share their experiences on the planet.

Minutes after her arriving, a crowd of geeks gathered to take pictures with the celebrity. “I thought nobody would come, thought they would continue on the computer,” she joked, as she smiled. After that, she said she actually was very well received and that “everyone is really nice.”

“I think all these people are very smart. It is people like these who made major changes in the world, that make humanity go forward,” said Juju, surrounded by dozens of campus people.

Besides Twitter, which she checked every minute between one photograph and another, she commented that, on the web she loves to look at the gossip web sites. “After all, they talk about me, I need to know,” she said.

Ticies, the new global social network
It’s been only 15 days since Ticies exists, but it is already causing a spark in the technological world. “We talked to several companies of the Silicon Valley and they are all excited. We have already received an investment of US$ 1 million,” said the president of the project, Joaquim Venancio to Terra.

The social network is totally Brazilian, with headquarters in Brasilia (DF). The organizers have opened an online auction for those interested in “buying” the rights to make the guide of the cities around the world. The main Brazilian capitals and cities like New York and London have been sold.

“So you can have an idea, Rio de Janeiro was sold for US$ 7,500. After one year, the city owner will be able to get up to US$ 100,000 in profit,” said Venancio, explaining that, inside Ticies, there is a team that will be solely responsible for its business plans and advertising.

Campus Party 2012
Campus Party, the biggest geek event on the planet, performed in over seven countries, takes place between the 6th and the 12th of February, 2012. The seat is the Anhembi Exhibition Pavilion Park, north of Sao Paulo (SP). For the fifth consecutive year in Brazil, the 2012 edition has already started breaking records: All entries were sold in 22 days in September last year.

With 7,000 participants, 5 thousand camped in the place, Campus Party offers this year more than 500 hours of content. The leading figures of this edition are Michio Kaku, known as the “physician of the impossible,” Sugata Mitra, researcher and professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University, Julien Fourgeaud, product and business manager of Rovio, John Klensin, researcher at MIT, and Vince Gerardis, co-founder of Created By, among others.

The event program is broadcasted live through http://live.campus-party.org and those who want to interact with the transmission through social networks can submit questions to the speakers. The exclusive hashtags to each of the
content areas are: Science – #cpbrCI; Digital Culture – #cpbrCD; Digital Entertainment – #cpbrED; Innovation – Main Stage #cpbrMainStage. The official hashtag of the event is #cpbr5.

Google, Facebook and Microsoft missed the Campus Party, says the executive of Fingertips

Invited by VEJA, the marketing director visited the event, which ended on Sunday. Check out his assessment.

James Della Valle

Breno Masi, director of marketing and products of the agency Fingertips, owes his career to Apple’s mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad. The agency in which he works is considered a pioneer in creating applications in the country and its expertise in the sector are enviable: he is frequently invited to speak at Campus Party.

You are already a veteran at Campus Party. How can you evaluate the fifth edition of the event?
Each year the event gets more solid – which creates a nice anxiety in participants. The organization has excelled despite occasional problems such as lack of water and the heat. Lectures and workshops are great, providing an ideal environment for knowledge exchange. Based on this, I can say, with certainty, that this is the place with the greatest amount of IQ per metres square.

Did you find any promising projects?
There are a lot of cool things here. I liked a project called Ticies, which is a social network of services divided by geographic location. It is a very interesting initiative that could work. I still need to see mobile applications, which are the core of my area of expertise, more calmly. There are many nice projects around here that need to be evaluated.

What is the level of people who are attending the Campus Party this year?
The level of campus people is excellent. They are counting the days to the beginning of Campus Party, because they know the importance of this event for their career development. Nowadays, these people have come with great ideas, but I wonder how the Campus Party should evolve in the coming years, with more challenges and quality developers. For next year, I’m thinking about bringing people here with the aim of developing a programming platform for mobile systems.

Do you miss anything?
I think they could expand the horizons of the event. We have several businesses here. But where are Google, Microsoft and Facebook, for example? I think that companies should bring content and workshops to Campus Party because they are important to this public’s life. I imagine that 70% of the operating systems are Windows here. Where is Microsoft to talk about the news in its industry, such as Windows 8 and Windows Phone? Where is Facebook to discuss the apps of its APIs? I also think they could pay more attention to women. They are participating in this edition, but this participation can be improved.

Can Campus Party be regarded as a warehouse of talented people and entrepreneurs?
Yes, Campus Party is a fantastic warehouse of talented people. Like I said, the level of people who frequent this space is very good. The thing is that not all companies are keeping an eye at the geniuses who pass by Campus Party. So, I repeat again, the event should promote the coming of more companies.