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Tomy Pelluz and Julian Lerer present Qapacity, a social application that connects the needs of clients with professionals who offer services. This is what I was commenting the other day while talking about the investment in Angie’s List, a site where professionals from all kinds of sectors can offer their services to those people who haven’t used personal recommendations to find these kinds of services on the internet.

Qapacity offers professionals of all kinds a website from where to offer their services (with blog, images, videos, …) and the possibility of managing the contacts of clients, collaborators and professional colleagues from one’s personal profile.

For clients, in this case non-professional users of Qapacity, they are offered the possibility of selecting the service they are looking for from professionals or small businesses. And on the other hand, users can create their own personal network, keeping track of their trusted professionals and discovering new professionals through recommendations from their personal network.

As for the company behind the project, Qapacity counts with an investment from Grupo Intercom, and its founders also have the experience of having participated in the launch and development of Neurona, until the time it was acquired.

I think that there was a real need for such a project in Spain. The professinal social networks are quite successful as far as businesses are concerned (B2B) and for professional promotion, but they lack contact with the client. From a site like Qapacity which precisely looks for that focus, businesses catering to consumers (B2C) have a place to go to.

Note: those who are interested in registering in the private beta can use this code: e3bd875.

It was time we dedicated some words to Psicofxp, an internet community founded by Ismael Briasco in the year 2000 and which is now one of the most important websites in Argentina.

I find it interesting to see how a site established since so many years renews its design and offers many new functionalities to turn itself into a site that is much more social. Psicofxp should become an example for all those sites who continue with their outdated design since years thinking that if they tamper with it, their users will leave the site en masse. As long as the interests of the users are respected and the main line of the site is maintained, a change of design should be positive as it shows that the site is evolving and adapting itself to the changing times and styles.

This new design of Psicofxp is the most visible part of the evolution of a forum towards becoming a social network, where the users, apart from sharing opinions and conversations, can upload their photos, videos and create their profiles to strike up connections with their friends in the community.

Lastly, the employment section of Psicofxp is managed by Bumeran, which I understand is some kind of commercial agreement. This contrasts with the tendency we were lately observing in other social networks of creating a classifieds channel with the platform of OLX.

Seen in Kabytes.

Eneko Knörr is a great reference for me as an entrepreneur. I believe he has made a great company out of Hostalia and transmits very good ideas in his blog related to the world of business and entrepreneurship. He is a simple person, very intelligent and it heartens me to see that after selling Hostalia, he continues to launch new projects within a new company called Ideateca.

Ideateca is described as a factory of ideas, it’s an incubator for internet projects that starts with two initiatives already functioning and with the objective of entering the themes they consider profitable.

There are three projects that are already up and running in Ideateca: Anuncioteca, a classifieds website; Videolandia, a video portal; and two islands in Second Life. Soon they will be launching in Ideateca a flash games portal, applications for mobiles and a service for photologs, amongst other things.

I find it very interesting how Eneko is starting his new business adventure. Being an expert in the world of internet, he has detected those sectors that could attract huge traffic and convert into big business. Through his extensive experience, he will be able to contribute interesting new things in each of those sectors.

Let me conclude saying that in Ideateca they are hiring professionals to work in their projects, mostly they are looking for PHP-MySQL programmers who live in the area of Bilbao.