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It seems people are inspired to set up Twitter clones and what was seen with skepticism a year ago has now turned into a phenomenon on the internet.

As I say, new Twitter clones are springing up in Spanish and Jisko is the last one we have heard of.

I quite liked the look and feel of Jisko, how the web is structured, and even the mascot I think is more funny than the bird of Twitter. One thing that caught my attention is the integration with Twitter which means that a user could be in Jisko but at the same time, could follow the messages that his friends send in Twitter.

But perhaps what stands out the most is the system of karma that seeks to measure the participation of a user in the community and assign him a numerical value to determine his importance on the web. And it’s also worth mentioning that the site is being translated into multiple languages.

Seen in Genbeta.

Vote for Jisko in Loogic Rank.

The news of the day in the blogosphere is the new design of Xataka, and for me, that the commercial blog that is the point of reference in Spanish has incorporated social functionalities like: voting of posts, voting of comments and Karma of Commenters.

As you can see, these social functionalities are centered around the conversation that takes place in the comments section, something that is totally logical in a blog with a high level of comments. The subject of voting the posts, the comments and the karma of the users can open up a lot of possibilities. But I can’t avoid saying that in this case, Weblogs SL has fallen short, because in my opinion the community shouldn’t be just based on the comments but rather the user should be given a more predominant role in the blog. I think that since now each user can have a profile, the next logical step would be to have a community page that hosts the profiles of all users and where the users can communicate amongst themselves through private messages and messages to the community.

Another point to emphasize is the importance being given on OpenID, of course I understand the choosing of this option, but I’m unable to see the utility of this system. Does someone fancy giving me private lessons about OpenID?

And about the new design: very clean, pleasing, easy to read, very well integrated advertising, … I would say that I like it a lot, if it weren’t for the fact that it is aligned to the left of the screen, something that for me is quite annoying. My manias?

For sure, it seems to me an important step ahead for Weblogs SL, again pioneering in the hispanic blogosphere and I suppose, as Julio and Antonio comment, slowly they will go on developing new functionalities to promote the community around their blogs.