During the last couple of years, a series of architectural patterns for web design software have consolidated and become popular through frameworks , which facilitate the development and maintenance of these systems. Simultaneously, servers had increased accessibility and reduced costs. Creating a web project became a far easier, faster and cheaper thing to do. However, for the project to succeed, there is still one obstacle that is not easy to overcome: scalability.

boo-box has successfully conquered this obstacle and currently has its infrastructure set up in layers capable of being interwoven horizontally, and that are sufficiently robust to serve thousands of requests per minute. Throughout this post we will present some of the practices currently in use to guarantee a good performance from Communications Systems for Social Media such as Ruby, MERB, CouchDB, Thin, Nginx, Beanstalkd.

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Marco Gomes receives the Prêmio Jovem Brasileiro – Young Brazilian Award

Marco Gomes, co-founder of boo-box, received the Prêmio Jovem Brasileiro – Young Brazilian Award, this Monday, September 22nd 2008, for his work in the corporate arena.

The Prêmio Jovem Brasileiro, presented by Serginho Groisman, is conceded based on merit and active participation of the youth in society. The nomination is awarded after an in-depth selection, performed by a committee formed by journalists, columnists, critics and research conducted with the young users on the event’s official website.

Marco Gomes, the Director of Technology at boo-box, receives this award for his performance as an entrepreneur, helping transform what was a late-night project into an innovative and successful company, well placed in the Internet Marketing sector.

Musicians CéU, Ivete Sangalo, Teatro Mágico and Negra Li, the films Cidade Dos Homens and Cidade de Deus, comedians Rafinha Bastos and Rodrigo Scarpa (o Repórter Vesgo) and athletes Sandro Dias and Karen Jones are some of the people who have been previously honored with this Award.

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boo-box has been cited in several publications as an example of successful entrepreneurship that is increasingly conquering more and more devotees around the globe each day.

One of the first magazines to mention boo-box was Webdesign. In an interview with them, Marco Gomes outlined his reasons for leaving behind a successful career at AgênciaClick to invest in boo-box, launching a new phase in his own career. As a good entrepreneur, he states:

(…) I was seeking new challenges. When the boo-box project began to gain momentum, I began to understand the scope of what we could really do based on the concepts we had created, and I was really, really excited by the prospect. I wanted to dedicate myself full time to the project.” The rest of the interview goes on to detail the company’s first steps, seeking out the investment partner Monashees, and following through to the goals and dreams boo-box foresees in its future.

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• boo-box in video, changing the way to market in on-line videos
• Platform portability, expanding content monetization boundaries
• Now offers can be sent to e-mail
• New partner programs

boo-box in video launched on November 10th

boo-box in video enables anyone to monetize embedded YouTube videos using partner affiliate programs. It is an easy and fast 4 step process:

1. Select the embedding code or the URL of the video.
2. Click on the boo-box icon on Firefox (or bookmarklet for IE, Safari and Opera and everything else)
   
3. Type a tag and test it
   
4. Apply or copy into your platform (blog, site, social network profile, e-mail…)

Our solution was developed with 3 things in mind:

1. Minimize interruption of the video: the recommendations are displayed only if the audience chooses. The video continues playing while the audience is browsing the recommendations.
2. Monetize the distribution: the publisher keeps all the money from the affiliate commission/fee.
3. Make marketing really relevant: the publisher chooses what is going to be displayed.

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boo-box was conceived to change the way marketing is done today. We want to make marketing more meaningful and elegant and less disruptive and obtrusive. We believe that by empowering publishers we will enable better environment for audience’s and will make marketing a relevant part of content experience.

In order to do that we found out that we needed to go in a different direction than other marketing companies.

For us, real contextual marketing is the one that is deeply co-related with the content it is displayed with, and today, to achieve that level of relevance the only way to go was to adopt natural intelligence in the contextualization process. That’s why we aim at developing the easiest to use tools and procedures that allow publishers to control what is marketed with(in) his content, instead of investing our intelligences in developing algorithms that would try to identify context.

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SAO PAULO, SP – BRAZIL (July, 2007) – boo-box, a contextual marketing company announced today a US$ 300k seed round financing deal lead by Monashees Capital, an early-stage Venture Capital firm. The funds will be used for expenses associated with the start up of the company and expansion of product line. boo-box is the first Brazilian web 2.0 internet venture with global ambitions to announce a seed round investment from a VC firm. Since the launch of its beta version in January boo-box has been featured as an innovative contextual marketing solution on several respected websites including a thumbs up appraisal by renowned technology blog TechCrunch.

About boo-box

boo-box intends to revolutionize the way publishers monetize their content, offering technological solutions that link websites content elements to marketing material and sales offers, using natural intelligence in the contextualization process.

boo-box team is composed of enthusiastic high level professionals lead by founder and CTO Marco Gomes and CEO Marcos Tanaka. Marco Gomes is an experienced programmer and former interface programming team leader for a global player in the internet advertising industy. Marcos Tanaka is a strategist having worked as a business consultant for the executive teams of some of the largest companies in Brazil.

Visit boo-box at: www.boo-box.com

About Monashees Capital

Monashees Capital (MC+) is an early-stage and growth Venture Capital firm focused on the creation of high-growth businesses, powered by innovative technologies, content or processes.With a particular interest in media & entertainment, education, life sciences and cleantech, MC+ works with long-term vision, autonomy, agility and focus on adding value to portfolio companies and its goal is to build companies that revolutionize markets, through long-term partnerships with outstanding entrepreneurs.