http://www.loogic.com/index.php/web20/

www.linux-party.com

A popular Extremadura Web Site:

www.ajuca.com

A popular forojob site:

www.forojob.com

There are in the world around 420 million people for whom Spanish is their first language. And out of those 420 million, only around 72 million are connected to the Internet today (18% of the total population).

Needless to say, the percentage of penetration is growing rapidly (and the margin for growth is huge), and so is the population. So it's a very interesting market to be in - but in terms of current audience, it's still a far cry (perhaps not that far) from that "300 million" quote.

PS: Looks like we've got 4 sites in the list :-) Thanks Richard (and Carlos too)!

Sorry

www.webmediaexplorer.com

Yeah, Spain is the core os the eastern core, right between North Korea and big old China.

hora y lugar

Surfers can add their on surf spots and surf spot information. Find more here:

Surfkultura

In Spain there is little to support the creation and development of web services and the companies behind them.

* The media (old and new) would rather report on whatever is the latest stupid auction on eBay than the launch of a new promising company. Don't count on them.

* Venture capital does not exist for Internet companies. The hangover from the bubble is still strong there. Don't even bother. Also, if you're lucky and travel to Sand Hill Road, be prepared to face folks who have no clue about this market and the most they'd say is "oh yeah there was this company called Starmedia that...". And no clue often means no funding. That's in California, a state with millions of Hispanics, by the way.

* Educational institutions and universities don't prepare to-be-enterpreneurs and would rather train future MBAs to get a good job at big companies, and teach engineers that they'll be working for the suits, instead of telling them they may be the creative minds that'd drive innovation.

* Consumers often would praise "imported" services instead of homemade ones (hence the big success of sites like Yahoo or MSN). Some native services do succeed, though, in niche markets, often of local nature or very culturally or language oriented.

* Unlike what Eduardo says, I feel that most services (at least the successful ones) would rather give a shot in becoming important in Spain, than risking being nobody in the US. Heck, many of them don't even bet on Latin America nor the Hispanics in the US (such a great market waiting to be hugged)

* In general, it's hard to find someone who would trust startups, especially Internet startups: lawyers don't want them as clients, landlords don't want to rent to them, people don't like working for them, and so on.

Many of these things don't not only apply to Spain but to many other countries in Europe and around the world.

It's a circle that is hard to break. I believe that a good first step would be to see a native company build itself from the ground up (no high-profile enterpreneur founding it, truly someone starting from zero) and becoming something others may look up to.

In the Silicon Valley many are looking for the next Google, the next MySpace or even the next sound acquisition (Flickr, etc). In Spain there is almost no one to look up to, and so the bubble hagover keeps...hanging over. So kudos to any and all who take on the difficult task to build a sustainable service, because I believe that while there is plenty of competition (just see how many sites are being mentioned) at the same time, the environment around them is anything but friendly.

And yet, the Spanish market on the Internet is probably one that today is very overlooked despite the numbers:
- 420M population.
- Only 18% Internet penetration.
- 4th most spoken language on the net (78 million)
In the US:
- 44M spanish speakers
- 735 billion acquisition power in 2006
- Internet advertising is the fastest growing space
- 80% of large US companies plan to at least double their advertising budget in Spanish.

And many other surprising stats. I should stop here I think :-)

Trabber is a travel metasearch engine that we have developed in Spain. It is currently available also for Germany and the US:

http://www.trabber.com/

Óscar.

Try Blogspy, a diggspy-like tool for realtime stats.

http://spy.foxcorp.org

Nice list of spanish web2.0 apps. I'm the authour of one of them (theadcloud.com) and just wanted to note that although theadcloud.com can be considered an spanish web2.0 app, it's from Chile as you can note on business2.blogs.com

an Amazon (and only amazon) international Price comparison engine is one of the few spanish apps that you can find in those 'web2.0 sites' lists (may be a good reference seeing the number of 'never heard of' sites in your post comments ;) ).

Using VOOTEXT you prune to share your texts yet the world, to read texts of other authors and build a relationship with them thanks to its social tools

I'd like to add Trovit.com to this list.
It's a vertical search engine, for houses, cars and jobs with presence in 4 countries in Europe (Italy, France, UK and Spain), and developed in Spain (Barcelona and Madrid).

Thanks!

Mario

They make downloadable desktop widgets for the pc. They are foacuse around 2.0 bubble sites; flicikr, wifi, and others, check em out (if you speak spanish)

You gotta be kidding! La Coctelera is way better and easier to use than Blogger

blog in spanish about web 2.0 applications

... does anyone know where one could find out the number Internet capable Spanish language website surfers in the world at this point?

Does anyone track this by chance? I would love to make a case for translating our website into Spanish, if we could find just how large current market is of Spanish language surfers.

"Huge" is not going get the powers that be to accept my proposal, what I need a study or some kind of reporting service that we could refer to.

Thanks in advance!

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We've just launched Quomon in spanish.
It's a website for IT and Graphic design professionals, to collaborate about problem solving. It has a point system which incentivices quick responses and let's experts gain prestige in their areas of knowledge. It's inspired by Web 2.0 ideas uses a tagging system and some AJAX.

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