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"More niche social networking: Elhood, which launched officially on June 26th, is a Hispanic social network.  Today it emerged that the site has taken a second round of funding led by Jose \u201CPepe\u201D Barroso\", head of Pep\u2019s Records (a joint venture with SonyBMG Spain).  The site will compete with Lazona, a new Latino social network created by MTV Networks Latin America.  However, Elhood caters to both Spanish and English speakers, while Lazona only offers a Spanish version.\nThe similarities to MySpace are fairly obvious: users have customizable profiles at unique URLS (elhood.com/username) and the ability to add content from Google Video, YouTube and PhotoBucket.  There's also user-to-user messaging, blogging, a profile design tool and the ability to create your own photo albums.  Unfortunately, many of these features were out of action at the time of testing.  Nonetheless, Elhood's main focus is almost certainly music: every artist has their own profile page, and you can hit an icon to add the tracks to your own playlist.  What's more, you can copy music from your friends' profiles using a drag-and-drop feature within the Flash player itself.  As an artist, you can upload 300 songs, create Flash slideshows from album art or band photos and track how many users are visiting your page.\nElhood isn't your typical MySpace clone: it's well-designed and fun to use.  What's more, the service is less about connecting you to your friends, and more about connecting artists to their fans.  It's a nice play that could see some traction.\n\n[More at paidContent]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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