Library Blogs Buzz Weekly

Today Yahoo announced their brand new mobile site in Spanish, called Yahoo! Mobile en Español. The site is optimized to work on 1,900 mobile devices and targets the 46 million Hispanic Americans in the US.

* Discover via results from Yahoo!'s award-winning mobile Search, editor-selected content, and U.S. and global news content presented in Spanish, including the "América Latina" news section, which provides relevant content from the Latin American region.

* Stay connected through access to email and social networking accounts from the most popular Web providers, as well as instant messaging, address book, and calendar functions.

* Stay informed by bringing favorite Web content --sports, news, local information, RSS feeds, weather, stocks, horoscopes, and more -- to a single location.

At the end of last month, Michael Arrington at Tech Crunch made a hint that Yahoo is looking into launching their own real time search engine too.

Bookmark Yahoo's new mobile site and offer it to your Hispanic library customers, I am sure they will use it.