Finalists for AOL Latino’s online reality design contest, Fashionista, will be featured in separate webisodes on Friday before the winner is announced that day.

At SES Latino 2007 there was, as you might expect, a focus on the search market as it pertains to Central and South America; representatives from both Google and Yahoo see a huge potential for growth in the region.

AOL Latino has launched Latino AIM Pages, a social networking service built on the AIM platform.

MySpace is attempting to broaden its reach and appeal with the beta launch of MySpace en Español, a new Spanish-language version for U.S. based Hispanics. They are also launching a new regional site in Spanish for Latin American residents and have plans for localized communities in Mexico and Brazil.

AOL Spanish-language portal dubbed “AOL Latino” is finally made available to users at no cost.

I was in the UK at the weekend to organize a couple of things re my move there next week.

Though there are clear distinctions between the online habits of what AOL calls “acculturated” or “unnaculturated” U.S. Hispanics, the results of “The AOL Latino 200 Hispanic Cyberstudy” suggest that blended marketing is highly appropriate for this demographic.