A few months ago, we talked about the development of a social network of cars, eBuga, which is now operational.
I had a lot of curiosity to know how eBuga was going to be, and to tell you the truth, I really liked it. My congratulations to Edu Bayo and all his team members because they have been able to combine very well many concepts of the Web 2.0 and bring them to the world of motor, which has a good following on the internet.
I think it’s worth it to dedicate some time to see all the functionalities of eBuga. The basis are the specifications and opinions of cars, but apart from that, there is information on car dealers, user info (here’s an example), groups of users and news channel (Digg style).
There’s a lot of information about car specifications, which in my opinion is the best part of the site. We can find information generated by eBuga staff and by users of the site, mostly opinions and reviews which could add a lot of value to the site.
More information in the blog of eBuga.
Vote for eBuga in Loogic Rank.
Read the original article in Spanish.
Jorge Mata is one of the most prestigious entrepreneurs of the hispanic internet, mainly due to the creation of Myalert (now Blinko) and due to the success of Berggi.
As told by Rodolfo Carpintier, investor in Berggi, Jorge Mata is in the process of starting a new project these days called eGauss, dedicated to online education.
eGauss are support classes for secondary school and high school, given in video by specialized professors. Subjects available at present are Mathematics, Chemistry and Art History.
The business model of eGauss, I believe is spot on. They charge a small monthly quota of 6 euros for access to the content, something which I am sure parents will pay happily to see their children dedicate more time in improving their knowledge of certain subjects.
If in eGauss they are capable of attracting the interest of parents who pay that quota and start generating interesting revenues, there could be other opportunities to create utilities such as an advice section for doubts, database of notes, … it’s clear that the internet could do a lot for education and this could be a good beginning.
Vote for eGauss in Loogic Rank.
Read the original article in Spanish.
The other day I was asking in the forum what would be the new project in which Wenceslao Casares was working and the answer has not taken long to arrive.
Looking at a photo in Wences’ Flickr, we find that the new company is called Bling Nation and that they are already searching for people to hire.
But what is Bling Nation? It seems that it’s a new system of payment that will allow users to carry out instantaneous economic transactions at any moment and any place. It’s probable that Bling Nation could be a system specifically designed for mobile devices, but for the moment I don’t have more information although surely we will know more soon.
It’s interesting to see how Wenceslao Casares continues to build businesses related to the financial world on the internet, Patagon, Lemon Bank and now Bling Nation. And the good thing is that it seems it’s not going to be more of the same, but rather something very innovative using mobile technology, which could have a lot of future as they comment in this article.
More information about the investments and projects of Wenceslao Casares in the web of Meck Ltd.
Jordi Castello speaks in his blog about Ale Estrada, founder of DineroMail and presents it as an alternative to Paypal for Latin America.
On one hand, it’s true that some countries of Latin America have many problems related to payments from abroad. It’s a pity that in today’s day and age, there are rulers with outdated ideas, and it seems that there are too many such rulers in Latin America.
And on the other hand, the fact that the founder of DineroMail comes from the business of Private Banking could be very interesting when it comes to the business development of this project. Often, we internet entrepreneurs could have very good intentions, but finally the knowledge of the market in question is the determining factor for the success of a project like this.
DineroMail is available for Argentina, Mexico and Chile. The payments are made using email. It’s possible to use this payment system for e-commerce sites.
I so much wanted to present this that I couldn’t wait for a more propitious day. Allow me to introduce you Loogic English, the English version of this blog that you are reading right now.
First of all I would like to thank Albert Armengol, Christian Van Der Henst and Luv Sayal, they are the ones who encouraged me, motivated me and helped me to start translating Loogic into English.
The main reason (and almost the only one) of starting Loogic English is to offer those interested in the internet business in Spain and Latin America a place to find information about the industry, in their language. We know that investors, entrepreneurs and business people in the internet sector in America and Europe are interested in knowing more about projects that are being developed here, and that’s the reason why we thought it would be a good idea to offer that information in English.
In Loogic English, we will be translating those posts that we consider interesting and relevant, we will not be translating all posts, only some interesting posts on a weekly basis, that we think would be really interesting for people outside of the Spanish speaking world to get to know better the hispanic Web 2.0.
Loogic English will not be a parallel blog to Loogic, nor would it be a blog about the internet businesses of the anglo-saxon world. Our focus is not on that market.
We invite you to visit this new channel within Loogic and if you allow me, let me ask you a favour. I would be pleased if you can help to spread the word about Loogic English outside of the Spanish speaking countries, if you have friends with blogs in English, or participate in social networks, or have access to influential blogs in English, I would be thankful to you if you can talk to them about Loogic English, as I believe that this will help all of us who are starting up projects in the hispanic internet. Thanks!
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