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June 16, 2007
Spanish Digg Clones
How do you get a blogger's attention? Easy, send visitors to their site. A spike in traffic from Meneame on Tuesday is how we "heard" about this Spanish Digg clone. Thank you Meneame readers for the nice Karma.
We followed up and asked Julian Martinez, founder of free classifieds site Adoos.com, about the site. Martinez, who is also based in Spain, said there are two large contenders for the top spots in his home market: meneame and Fresqui.
We also found a Loic Le Meur video where we learned that Meneame is the third most popular news site in Spain. It is ahead of news sites that have hundreds of employees, according to Martin Varsavsky who is apparently a minority investor in the startup (see video below).
If it is true that the traffic is that much greater than established media sites, you can understand well why publishers are interested in acquiring such sites.
The site's creator Ricardo Galli talks in the video about the media company offers he's rejected and why he founded Meneame and he does it with disarming modesty and wit. Worth viewing.
As of February there were 380 Digg like platforms, according to the Internet Cash Machine.
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