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At Inventa Internet, we are pleased to present Hostarting, a service that compares prices and the characteristics of different hosting services and domain registrars, with the ambition of becoming a reference in the sector. Our objective for Hostarting is to provide professionals and companies looking for hosting services a place to find solutions that fit their unique needs. Until now, people who wanted to sign up for a hosting service had to hop from one website to find the most suitable option or trust the recommendations of another person. Now all the price plans and product details of the major companies in the sector are easily accesible from a single place and it’s possible to do comparisons between different plans.

Hostarting targets hosting companies as well as individuals or companies who need those services. We want to maintain a balance between the services provided to both kinds of users because we believe that everybody can benefit from such a service. We are looking to create more transparency in the sector, better communication and above all, less conflicts between companies and clients. The aspect of participation and community is fundamental in Hostarting. We want to create a place where the hosting companies and their users can communicate, and users can comment, recommend and review the different services. This is our challenge: to creat value in a setor of huge interest for many people and companies, where we want to be a point of reference through our indpendent point of view.

This is the start of Hostarting, we have big plans for this project, many ideas that we want to develop and that we hope will fructify in the coming months. We will continue working to build a tool of great utility for all. We hope you will accompany us in this journey. Thank you all for your support and help :)

Thanks to:

Cusomedia, for the excellent work of design and programming. Without their help, it wouldn’t have been possible to start this project. Thanks to Oobo for gifting us the name, we like it a lot and hope you also liked it. Thanks to Blogoff for accepting to write a scoop, for doing an excellent article presenting the new site and for helping us improve through their recommendations.

And thanks to the betatesters: Agustin Vivancos - Impulsa, Jordi Pérez - Brandea, Javi Olmo - Tutecnologo, Javi de Rios - Guiadeconcursos, Lucas Rodriguez - Metocube, Miguel Angel Ivars - Adlemons, Roberto Pérez - Erasmoos, Tomy Pelluz - Qapacity, Aurora Garal - Worthidea, Alex Dolara - Plootu, Ignasi Prat - Allrankings, Javier Lopez - Erasmusu, Fabio Nuñez - Escapadarural, Raul Jimenez - Minube, Javier Gracia - Misscompras and to Enrique Brito.

Note: we are in Beta. We appreciate all the comments and suggestions. We will also appreciate (with a link in Loogic ;) all the blog articles that help us spread the word.

Sugiere.net is born again, this time with Fernando del Pozo as the sole driver behind the helm and without the company of Fivelab. The new version of the website is much more completed and continues to focus on providing channels so that users can make recommendations to businesses.

With the new Sugiere, designed by Customedia, users can become fans of companies, provide personalized feedback and vote or make comments about the recommendations made by other people.

The main functions that are available to businesses for interacting with the users are: manage  the community of fans of their products, engage conversations with their customers, adopt suggestions and give details of the process to their customers, promote and add new products, conduct opinion surveys about a new idea or product.

Today I had the privilege of attending, along with a select group of bloggers, the presentation of the web service BBVA Tu cuentas, in the presence of the the bank’s chariman and CEO.

I was very much surprised by the presentation and seeing the functioning of the product because the truth is that I didn’t expect to see something like this so soon here in Spain and much less from a bank. But the fact is that BBVA Tu cuentas is an very complete application for the management of personal finances and will be of great utility to its users.

There is a important differentiating factor between BBVA Tu cuentas and the rest of the applications of this kind that are available in the marketplace. In this case, the application connects to the website of the bank and that of other banks to obtain the financial information so the user doesn’t have to do it manually. Besides, the web connects with the utility companies (water, electricity, gas, …) saving us the labour of having to introduce the respective expenditures every month.

BBVA Tu cuentas complements with options of community in which a user can compare his/her financial situation with that of other groups of users representing different profiles. It also incorporates a service of recommendations of financial products, which uses the recommendation technology of Strands.

Strands is the company responsible for the development of the application and from what I observed, also responsible for defining much of the functional aspect of the site.

Now we are going to wait and see the reaction of the competition in face of this intiative. BBVA has taken the lead, we will have to see the response of Santander, Caja Madrid, La Caixa, … and also how it affects independent applications like MoneyTrackin.

More information in the blog of Strands.