Many congratulations to Toni and his team at eConozco for selling their company!

Seems like a smart move to me. eConozco is a Spanish business networking website, and this sector seems to be evolving to an environment with just a handful of very large, well capitalized players such as LinkedIn or eConozco’s buyers, Xing (formerly called OpenBC).

I first met Toni after stumbling upon another website his company operates, the delightful pricenoia. We met for a coffee soon after, and have kept in touch on and off over the last couple of years, following each other’s progress.

One thing that makes me happy to see this successful exit is that Toni and his team are self-funded and self-made. Now, they’ll be able to focus more on their latest project, a mobile social network called festuc, which is taking off among young Spanish kids.

Congrats!

Quintura today launched a dedicated search engine for kids- it’s very cute, and uses their increasingly well-known ‘clouds’ to help navigation.

I really like this tool for searching- I wouldn’t use it for a query where I know exactly what I want (google is king in that category), but I find it much better than google for queries that are a bit undefined, where what you want gets defined by what you find.

Quintura and my company, Properazzi, share the same investors, so I guess my opinion is technically biased. But for what it’s worth, I do think it’s a nice product, and the value of vertical-specific search engines like the one they launched today is not one that needs much argument to convince me

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Latest polls in the French presidential election show that Socialist Segolene Royal might actually be knocked out in the 1st round- with Sarkozy and Bayrou passing to the 2nd round.

As I recall, it was Sarkozy and Bayrou who made the effort to turn up to Loic Le Meur’s LeWeb3 conference a few months ago.

Correlation?

Link: FT.com / In depth – Poll surge unsettles French socialists’ bid

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Niki Scevak, founder of Homethinking, has proposed a *great* business model for Wikipedia that deserves to be spread around.

He’s suggesting they sell their keyword/traffic data, which would presumably be both deep enough (top 10 visited website) and informative enough (which articles were read, and referring keywords) to be extremely valuable for marketing companies.

The beauty of the model is that it would keep everyone’s privacy intact, and the Wikipedia product clean from visible advertising.

If anyone doubts that this information is interesting, check out the link that inspired Niki’s post.