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I wasn’t expecting this movement from the founders of Ebuga (and Eburra), who also previously founded Coches.net but the truth is that it makes a lot of sense to make the most of the synergies with a social network of automobile aficionados and start a website of classifieds for the sale and purchase of secondhand cars.

The website is called PocosKm (literally, FewKm), the typical phrase used when one wants to sell a car (”it has few kilometres”), and follows quite well the style of Ebuga which I so much like, very clear information and with an appropriate structure for navigation (my congratulations to the designer).

PocosKm launches with GoogleMaps integration, a control center for professionals and alerts of vehicles to notify potential buyers when a vehicle of their desired specifications goes on sale.

Just today, Christian Chena announced that he had sold Carros.com and wanted to sell Coches.com, which is another sign that the world of automobiles on the internet is very active lately, as we commented the other day while talking about enCooche.

Every time it’s getting more difficult to do such selections as the majority of the really interesting projects in the hispanic web 2.0 have received funding during the course of 2007 or are about to get funded.

Summarizing a bit we can see that I haven’t erred much in my selections:

The prediction of end of 2006 has been realized in its entirety. Panoramio purchased by Google, Econozco purchased by Xing and Mobuzztv hasn’t disclosed any information but I’m almost certain that they have received investment.

In the summer of this year, I dared to do a second selection with Festuc, Trovit and eyeOS. The only one that has been confirmed has been Trovit just a few days ago. At Festuc they still haven’t gone for the first round of financing, but I’m sure that they will find the money as soon as they decide to get funded. And eyeOS doesn’t lack suitors, Martin Varsavsky was very close to investing but it seems that they couldn’t agree on the valuation of the project.

I didn’t want to end 2007 without making another selection of projects in which to invest, so here are those who I believe will receive funding during the course of 2008:

Catodicos: it’s a social network for aficionados of television series, created by Ivan San Martín and has the support of Fivelab. With a rage for television series these days and taking into account how well designed this social network is, I have no doubt that VCs will be interested in investing in this project.

Ebuga: is a social network about the world of cars and motor, founded by Edu Bayo and John Shaw. As far as I know, it hasn’t received investment although it’s founders have had to put a good amount of money as the development has been of a high standard. When they do receive external funding, I’m sure it will be of several million euros.

Escapada Rural: is a directory of rural cottages which is slowly incorporating social functionalities. For the moment, it’s a simple project but it has been designed with such care that it could become a huge hit amongst its users. My advice for its creators is to keep going on the same lines and to be seen at events where projects are presented to investors.

Other projects worth following which I believe haven’t received any investment are: Kroonos, 20palabras, RedKaraoke, Omemo and Adnstream.

With this I conclude, and all that’s left for me to do is to wish you a Happy 2008!

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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.

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