additionally, The o globo carnival application has become one of the most popular tool for rio's street carnival - the application provides real-time news and schedules of all major street blocks.

Furthermore, the app is customizable with user preferences and alerts, and allows to see what facebook friends will attend each event, and what eateries are open near the blocos .

The application also provides information on the parades of the samba schools, including technical data and scoring.

The application can be downloaded for free on this link for apple, and here or here for android.