Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico's Independence (as many confuse it), it is a time many use to celebrate our heritage. Ora! Que dijeron... este se puso bien patriota. Nada! The big day is here, De La Hoya vs Mayweather! That's what Cinco de Mayo means this year. Coronas, lime, carne asada and a fight (the one in Vegas not your Tios with your neighbor). Pero staying true to my online evangelizing, it doesn't have to be Cinco De ...  [Read More]

Where is this Quepasa island that only grows Latin models? Wow! If being Latin means being able to be on a runway or GQ, then I guess I should be part of Quepaso, and not QuePasa. Quepasa.com is a company I remember from back in the day. It seems they where not getting as much traction as they wanted on the site so they decided to do the American solution..., get a makeover. They should be considered Latin pioneers of ...  [Read More]

Well that was quick! Mr. Gingrich is "eating crow" as they say and does a "sorry" and sorry video in "the Ghetto" language, lol. Lo que uno queria de-sirr es kay... yo no say nada y soy un tontito. Mis abogados, l-o-s kay son mis como say dice "puppeteers"?, y mi vieja, me dijieron que uno diciera esto pronto oh si no mi yarda no se va ver bien y nadie va limpiar mi casota grandisima. Y yo como, como ...  [Read More]

This is a long one but PLEASE read it all. Where do I start???!!!! I was at a breakfast meeting with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in San Diego (support them now more than ever). Linda Caballero-Merrit the President and CEO of the Chamber was nice enough to invite me IN SPANISH Mr. Gingrich (ok I'm about to loose it right now)! Ms. Caballero mentioned a comment that Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich mentioned yesterday in a press conference. I was ...  [Read More]

So I was taking a shot of Tequila (for research of course), and before my eyes went cross-eyed I noticed something. The bottle said "Oranjo", that's when I said "what the hell?", my people at Jose Cuervo are going corporate (y me heche otro trago de puro coraje)? That's when I thought of asking Marivi about the meaning of this. Marivi is a man, no woman, no robot? No se' but I know it's a blog. Here's another good example ...  [Read More]

I'm gonna talk about three forces that are shaking the world and a company that embodies them all (wow I sound like a poet). Mi Gente, movies, and technology. Here's a good example of a company that is paying close attention to Latinos. The company is called Jaman. Long are the days that you have to wait for Latin movies in the mail from Netflix (pleeeease that's for THOSE unhip people). If you like instant gratification, and movies, I mean ...  [Read More]

Ok, this is our first 'official' post so I don't want to get all 'Zapatista', but I do want to open some eyes. You know I once heard a story of a baby Elephant that was tied to a tree and would tug and tug until it realized it could not escape. The day came that the baby was not a baby no longer and instead was this huge beast. Even though it was huge enough to break the rope ...  [Read More]

This blog is a grass roots effort to create an Internet that caters to Hispanics/Latinos (pick your flavor). We Discuss good examples, bad examples, and great ideas. Oh! and one more thing.... by Internet we are not limited to websites or web applications. We can also consider mobile phones, iPods, games, and any other medium the Internet supports. "Think outside the bun", no? Este blog es dedicado al movimiento de crear un Internet mas adaptado al Hispano/Latino (tu escoje, "hechale sal, ...  [Read More]

For many companies, Hispanics have grown from a niche to a necessity, unfortunately that pot of gold is a greater challenge than most companies anticipated. Early adopters believed that simply translating a website to Spanish would solve the problem. Yet that has not had the expected results, why? This is because the hardest problem is to understand the problem. To start, don’t think of Hispanics as monolithic people. To get a small glimpse of how complicated this can get, ...  [Read More]

Fastest growing demographic online. Approximately 19 million, that’s 11% larger than the total online population of Spain, or 4% larger than the total population of Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia combined. (HispanicTrends.com, 2007) Two-thirds of online Hispanics say that they wish there were more sites with interesting information for Hispanic Americans, and 45 percent express a desire for more Web ads in Spanish. Online Hispanic consumers are younger and heavier users of the most cutting edge features of the Internet as ...  [Read More]