http://www.rotorblog.com/2008/02/08/facebook-learns-spanish/ Social Media Blog, Tips & Tricks for Bloggers and Social Network Users Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:11:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.rotorblog.com/2008/02/08/facebook-learns-spanish/comment-page-1/#comment-191533 Spanish Lessons Skype Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:47:00 +0000 http://www.rotorblog.com/2008/02/08/facebook-learns-spanish/#comment-191533 I usually do not comment on blog posts but I found this quite interesting, so here goes. Thanks! I usually do not comment on blog posts but I found this quite interesting, so here goes. Thanks!

]]> http://www.rotorblog.com/2008/02/08/facebook-learns-spanish/comment-page-1/#comment-48916 Tomas Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:49:00 +0000 http://www.rotorblog.com/2008/02/08/facebook-learns-spanish/#comment-48916 Which appraoch will win out in the end? MySpace's endless opening of offices worldwide, Facebook's collaboration translation (which will surely have many grammar and language issues)? I think it'll be a third appraoch, and that of localized players. Such is the case of Sonico.com (http://www.sonico.com), who un under than 6 months has managed to register over 7 million hispanic members and gaining an average of 100k new registrations daily to become the biggest and fastest Spanish social network. So, will Facebook be able to secure the Hispanic market, or will the local player have too big a stronghold? This has already happened in a few other markets (ie Brazil, South Korea), and it appears to be going the same way in Latam Which appraoch will win out in the end? MySpace’s endless opening of offices worldwide, Facebook’s collaboration translation (which will surely have many grammar and language issues)? I think it’ll be a third appraoch, and that of localized players. Such is the case of Sonico.com (http://www.sonico.com), who un under than 6 months has managed to register over 7 million hispanic members and gaining an average of 100k new registrations daily to become the biggest and fastest Spanish social network.
So, will Facebook be able to secure the Hispanic market, or will the local player have too big a stronghold? This has already happened in a few other markets (ie Brazil, South Korea), and it appears to be going the same way in Latam

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