It was one of those inspiring days yesterday at Martin Varsavsky’s ranch in Menorca, an event gathering originally intended for the Menorcan tech scene ending up with so much interest outside of the island and Spain, the event TechTalk Menorca ended up with some 100 enthusiast entrepreneurs, developers and pure geeks mostly working in the next generation web ‘connected’ services.
Marko Ahtisaari introduced Blyk and Dopplr, Anil de Mello gave us a preview on Mobuzz going completely user-driven soon, Ivan and Rodrigo anounced a complete update of vpod.tv for their 1st anniversary on May 15 – check out their updates during next week! Tariq Krim explained how Netvibes got from 15.000 users on day 1 to 10 million users without a logo and spending 0 on marketing (!) Ola Ahlvarsson from Result explained how to create an ‘ecosystom for growth’ and Michael Jackson (no joke!) how Skype will continue ‘enabling the worlds conversations’.
Hans Peter Brondmo impressed already at iNNOVATE!europe’07 with Plum, still in private beta, to be launched on May 24. Plum is a free service that lets you save anything you care about – web pages, videos, photos, documents, emails, feeds, and more – and organize everything into collections. Something I have been looking for since longtime, I’m sure we’ll hear a lot from this new service the coming months.
Then Thomas Crampton and Loïc Le Meur did a dynamic and funny presentation on their next project, still in beta obviously, but already with a great vision of things to come, instant media now! Jonas Birgersson explained us about the infrastructure 2.0 plans of Labs2, something I can just dream about now but they’re making this already a reality in homeland Sweden. Ricardo Galli of Meneame explained how, without having a clue or a plan, his site became one of the most used website in Spain.
The sessions closed with a session on online games with Alexis Bonte from yesnomayB and Mathieu Nouzareth from cafe.com, anyway both worth following.
Martin Varsavsky invited us for a cocktail at his precious Torrenova finca not without giving us an update of just released stuff from FON, Gmail Uploader and Fon.gs, 2 simple features no one seemed to have thought of before. Check the What’s New section on their website, always worth checking!
All in all, it was a great day with great people in Menorca and a superb initiative from Martin to bring all these interesting people together to learn, share and connect. Entrepreneurship is all about a good idea and execution, and we have seen a lot of those yesterday. Stay tuned for a lot more exciting stuff to come from the next generation web connected services on this side of the ocean 
My Flickr pictures here, Loïc’s video feed from yesterday here, you have to get through the morning boat excursion first however 
UPDATE May 14: Loïc just posted seperate video’s of the TechTalk presentations on his blog here.
More pictures of the event here and here.
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[...] This weekend I’ve attended the TechTalk enteprenuers event given by Martin Varsavsky at his Torrenova farm in Menorca. I went to the island with no other expectation than to hear what top tech personalities had to say and learn from them as much as possible. It ended up being a very inspiring evening and also a nice place to meet new people or to talk personally to a lot of people I only knew online. I also had the opportunity to tal with some people about my future project and receive (free!) advice on it. I’m glad Martin has the idea of open up what was previously a private meeting of friends (all of them tech gurus with succesful projects and careers) and I strongly belive that, with a little organization, the Torrenova event could become one of the most important tech meetings held in Europe. The only thing needed is a suitable means of transport for the attendees and maybe a band playing live music. So, to have a recollection of what happened there, read Rudy’s report. I only hope that this meeting will be held next year and I advise everybody with an interest in the entepreneurial world in europe not to miss the event next time. It was well worth it. You can see my pictures of the event at my Flickr account. [...]
Hi, great summary of the event, just one think, correct url for yesnomayb is yesnomayb.com or yesnomayb.co.uk (no e at the end).
Thanks for the comment, Alexis – I adapted yesnomayB directly in the post too.
Cheers. Rudy.
The guy from cafe.com is Mathieu Nouzareth
[...] Great updates at vpod.tv for their 1 year Anniversary tomorrow. Much better and full screen browsing interface, check out all presentations from TechTalk in Menorca at Loïc TV. Announcements, convergence, iptv, social media, startups, user experience, vlogging, vpod, vpod.tv, we media, web 2.0 social bookmarks: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
[...] Rudy de Waele [...]
[...] The last interview was with “Entrepreneur of the Year” Martin Varsavsky, Founder and CEO of FON, I covered more on this interview already here and more on his projects here… I had to travel back early and missed the last panel. Sorry if I left anyone out, must be I really didn’t notice or that I will write about more in detail soon This was a really interesting event for me, I hope my notes are usefull for my readers too. Thanks to Chris and Cathy from Guidewire and Lucie-Anne from Ballou PR for inviting me! [...]
More videos from Menorca:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nRR9X_5r4k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_2410ijHNY
Hello, view mi photos, and panoramic photo torrenova 2007.
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