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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.

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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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After the succesfull MobileMonday Global Peer Awards the MoMo Barcelona team organised during 3GSM World Congress in Espacio Movistar, MoMoBCN heads back to normal with the monthly MobileMonday Barcelona event on interesting topics following trends and evolution in mobile technology and services.

MobileMonday Barcelona invites, for their next event on March 5, some of the most interesting players in the field of Mobile TV and IPTV going mobile.

Date: Monday, March 5, 2006

Topic: MyMobileTV

Speakers:

Ivan Communod, co-founder and COO of vpod.tv

Anil de Melo - CEO and producer of MobuzzTV

José Luis Jorge Marrasé - Barcelona Competence Center Manager for Multimedia applications in Alcatel-Lucent.

Xavier Kirchner - Director of Telefonica I+D, Barcelona

As usual, a networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/subscribe/ to reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 MyMobileTV speaker sessions
• 20h30 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Full details on the event here.

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Just back from the Under The Radar: Mobility conference (more on this later here) and a short San Francisco trip where I met some of my - fun as always - mobility friends and pals. It was good to catch up and update on US and European mobile markets with Peter Vesterbacka, Oliver Starr from MobileCrunch, Dave Harper from Winksite, Caroline Lewko from WIP Connector, Mike Rowehl (AdMob), Kelly Goto and lots of other interesting entrepreneurs and industry people working in the mobile value chain.

I shot some video footage with a Nokia N93, including impressions, presentations and interviews from the UTR conference that I will share with you soon here at m-trends.org.

Here below a short travelling teaser while visiting the Canvas Gallery, Café and Lounge on 9th Avenue (at Lincoln) with Kelly and Ignacio.

Thanks to Rodrigo, I’m going to use vpod.tv video-editing platform tool & hosting service (currently in beta) to upload and edit my video shootings. I played a bit with the interface and it really looks swell and the support team is where it has to be… right on the ball. This weekend I’m going to explore further the possibilities of vpod.tv platform and share some of the vids taken with you.

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