Julian Martinez’s Blog

Getting the Latin American sites
up and running has been a bit trickier than we initially expected.
Spanish is a fairly homogeneous language throughout the region but
unfortunately when it comes really local stuff, there are slight
idiomatic differences. In the case of a classifieds, getting these
differences right is crucial for the success of the sites.

Here are some examples:

1) The word Car is different:
Spain: Coches
Venezuela: Carros
Argentina: Autos

2) When talking about property, people use the following:
Spain:  Dormitorios
Mexico: Recamaras
Argentina: Ambientes

Other important differences include:
Departamentos vs. Pisos
Bienes Raices vs. Inmuebles
Celulares vc. Moviles
Computadora vs. Ordenadores
Avisos vs. Anuncios

Then, in some countries you also get strange currency issues. For example in Argentina property for sale is generally quoted in USD but property for rent in Pesos. The same goes for electronic gadgets and computers that are also quoted in USD!

This is the reason why the Adoos sites are still in ALPHA, because we are working to get all these glitches fixed before launching with the full marketing campaigns.

To
everyone that reads my blog from Latin America, please send me an email
and let me know if we need to correct any mistake with your country’s
website.

Some fantastic news for London!

The
City of London has just announced a plan to blanket the London
financial district with WiFi. The plan is to start with a section of
London’s Square Mile financial district, and then to roll out WiFi
coverage to the entire area over the course of the next six months.

Public WiFi coming to London, SF, Chicago

Today, Habitamos.com has reached a record of 70,000 active ads! We have doubled our marketing efforts this month and we are now receiving an average of 2,000 new ads per day. Most ads are mainly in the property, cars and jobs sections .

This number is greater than any vertical classifieds website in Spain and we are catching up with the horizontal local leader (Trader’s Segundamano).

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