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 received the 100% Clean seal from the website Softpedia.

Softpedia is an online library that contains in its archives over 70,000 free software’s. All the library’s software’s are periodically tested and analyzed to guarantee the quality of their code.

Softpedia’s 100% Clean seal is just one more guarantee that the boo-box plugin for firefox does not contain viruses, malware or adware, and can be installed in any computer, without restrictions.

To earn this seal we performed important updates to our tagging-tool, such as:

a. improving security
b. correcting bugs
c. checking compatibility with Firefox 3

boo-box always aims to improve the quality of the service it renders, and this seal is a just reward for the excellent wok done by the ninjas!

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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Hi! My name is Dirceu and as a boo-box ninja I’ve come to announce some big news:

It is now possible to use more than one tag in our product search system. This was already possible with the widget on the fixed list, but now the function is available both in the virtual shopping window and directly through the API. The tags need to be separated by commas, for example:

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The boo-box tool was born from a mix of Web Services and ecommerce APIs, links with affiliate codes in HTML, libraries, frameworks and plugins in free code. Without these open source tools we would not have been able to create applications that have been helping over 1,000 content originators to earn more (and more objectively) with what they publish on the web.

In November 2007 we released boo-api, which allows developers to use our infrastructure to search for offers in any of the ecommerce retailers with which we are integrated. Our intention is to develop, for the community, knowledge that we gained using their tools.

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