Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz

Pierre-Etienne Pommier tells us more

 

Creator of the political show iPol and of the new web show "Le Zapping du Web"

Quand l'Internet fait des bulles (1ère partie)

 

Un film de Benjamin Rassat - Une coproduction 13ème RUE - La Générale de Production source: http://www.13emerue.fr/13emerue/cache/nouveautes/quand-linternet-fait-des-bulles.htm

On French TV tonight. Amusing! this movie (2x52min) traces the history of the French Internet economy. And it starts (spoiler: and ends) with an interview first published on this blog !

A must see.

24 hours on the web

Details here

I'll be moderating a panel at the upcoming Digital Hollywood conference in London

Interested in learning more about the digital revolution under way? In meeting the people involved in this new era ? Then you should probably make it to the conference in London at the end of November: Digital Hollywood Europe.
I shall even be there, moderating one of the last panels of the conference on :

Hollywood Europe in London, ExCeL London, The Docklands
 November 29 - December 1, 2006
 The Agenda - Day Three
 Friday, December 1
 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Track IV:
 Breakthroughs in User Generated Video and Social Networking: The Personalized Broadband and Mobile Music and Video Experience
 Gregg Hale, Partner/Co- Creative Director, Campfire Media
Tim Morgan, Commercial Director, Bloombox TV
Julian Swallow, CEO, Mobrio
Ron Stevens, CEO, Pixpo
Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ, co-founder & CEO, vpod.tv, Moderator

And I'm staying over in London for the weekend, so great time for coffee or beer somewhere :) !

Jobs' Keynote last night

It was all about the ipod and its ecosystem. Plus the launch of apple's VOD service. Watch it all here. (I found Jobs tired...)

Now 2 moments got my FULL attention:
the iTV device, bridging even further the computer and the TV world, playing in the area of the MCE of Microsoft, Akimbo, Slingmedia, etc.

And the market vision...

More coverage today on our http://appleexpo.vpod.tv blog.

Podcasted on the Billaut Show this week

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Jean-Michel Billaut, host of the now almost legendary French show "the BillautShow" came by our offices on Friday. That turned into a long conversation in front of the webcam of my macbook pro (25 min...) where we discussed about the online video industry, competition, venture capital, P2P, reaction from TV networks, B2B, und so weiter...

He posted the original show here, and there is some discussion going on there as well.

Covering the tech world in the first half of this year

I though I’d look back at my coverage of tech events and conferences in the past 8 months. Waow, even I am impressed by the amount of footage I put online in the past few months.

If you haven’t seen the videos yet, enjoy! Otherwise, take a break, and watch them over again !

• "Les Blogs 2.0" conference in Paris last December’05
  We captured all sessions, used the audio from the room, edited it, and put everything back online a couple of days later
  http://lesblogs.vpod.tv/
  
• CES in Vegas in January‘06:
  Reactions from attendees, ambiance footage, keynote sessions
  http://ces.vpod.tv/
  
• 3GSM in Barcelona, Spain in February’06
  Chats with attendees, ambiance footage
  http://3gsm.vpod.tv/
  
• Innovate!Europe'06 in Zaragoza, Spain in May (with Chris Shipley’s team)
  Backstage interviews
  http://rodrigo.typepad.com/english/innovateeurope/index.html
  http://blog.vpod.tv/2006/05/innovateeurope0.html
  
• Global Mobile Monday Summit in Helsinki, Finland, June‘06
  Backstage interviews
  http://blog.vpod.tv/2006/05/global_momo_tv.html
  http://rodrigo.typepad.com/english/momo/index.html
  http://globalsummit.mobilemonday.net/media/
  
• Vloggercon in San Francisco, CA in June ‘06
  Backstage interviews, ambiance footage
  http://rodrigo.typepad.com/english/vloggercon/index.html
  http://www.vloggercon.com/?page_id=7
  http://blog.vpod.tv/2006/06/vloggercon_rock.html
  
• Coverage of Supernova 06 in San Francisco, June '06
  http://blog.vpod.tv/2006/06/vpodtv_does_beh.html
  
• The Next Web conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 06
  http://thenextweb.org/?r=elevator
  http://blog.vpod.tv/2006/07/thenextweb_conf.html

 

Amanda quits Rocketboom

What? miss sexy un-conventional anchor of favourite show Rocketboom (and she’s up there with Amber from CommandN, Rachel from 88slide and Luria “Cali” from Geek Brief TV) has decided to call it quits (I met her here in Vegas, said hi in San Francisco)

Happens all the time. In French we have a saying: “cemetaries are full of indispensable people”. Right.

What is interesting in this piece of news is what Amanda says in this clip: “my partner owns 51%, I own 49%. Hence he makes decisions and I have to learn how to live with it”.

Remember as entrepreneurs, that starting a company together is like marriage. Although the honeymoon part is great, thinks might get sour at some point, and you need to manage that and plan for it. Indeed, your business partner also has a personal life: s/he might evolve, want to move on, grow into a different job. How do you split? Who makes decision when you don’t agee?

It requires extensive TALKING before signing the partnership document. Make sure you address all your concerns early on. Don’t be shy. Thinks like these happen, and both will be better off when you have addressed them early.

In my case, I’ve had a 50/50 split in everything we do with my business partner since we started working together years ago. And we have written rules for our equity stakes, and we hace discussed rules for decision-making. Not personal, only business.

On a more optimistic note, hey Andrew: keep the spirit up I’m sure you’ll continue producing great show. And to Amanda: all the best in your acting career. You’re very young so you have plenty of time to build a career.

ps: have you noticed the number of people moving on lately: Om Malik, Scoble, Scott McNealy, Freddy Mini of MusicMe, etc. etc. something to do with the full moon maybe?

a nice chat with Mary Hodder

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Last week while in the Bay Area, we popped over to Berkeley and had really some nice time with Mary Dabble, founder of Dabble. Here she tells us a little bit about her background and about her company.

Now she tells us that she is indexing a bit over 200 video sites, that is more than what I read here...

and by the way, I'm flying back to San Francisco in a few hours for Supernova...

just installed Second Life

I’ve never been much of a gamer. When I bought my PSP in January at Fry’s in Las Vegas, the sales clerk asked me what 2 games I wanted with it (maybe $10?). I said “what?”. “yeah”, he said, “we have a special promotion, you can buy 2 games with your new PSP for just xxx $”.

“Nah…” I said, as I really seldom play anything.

Actually I have a great desktop at home. Dual screen, bi-pro, lots of RAM (3 GB), dual pro. And I have NO GAME installed. Maybe I should find one that would suit my style: I don’t like shoot them ups, beat them up, kinda games. Nor the complicated ones where you have to spend hours of your time just trying to figure out how they work.

Every now and then I hooked my son’s Nintendo Game Cube to play with him. We have 6 games, but the only 2 I play with him (and he doesn’t play much either) are Super Mario Kart (I like the dirt track only), and Snowboard 1080° (or something like that). On my phone, I only play Sudoku. I tried “grand theft auto” on the PSP the other day when Smooth lended it to me. 20 min was all I could take on that one

So, unless you guys have an idea of what I should be experimenting with… And I know that the game market is larger than the cinema industry… Probably I should get into it at some point. I saw an Xbox 360 the other day. I’m interested for its windows MCE capabilities, not really for the games. Anything good in there ?

So back to the title of this post: Eric Rice at vloggercon showed me what he was doing on Second Life: trading goods, buying / selling land, hosting concerts in his conference center; he told me about what the BBC was doing there, how people were setting up virtual record labels, how the vloggercon conference was streamed live inside it (and Supernova will be streamed live as well), etc. Now this is REALLY getting me interested. 

I touched upon the economics of WoW in an old post, and more recently in the possibilities of a Habbo-hotel-like venture, called Taatu. I will explore this new business world more in the future. I’ve seen the many posts that Joi Ito has devoted to WoW. I can only guess he was also looking at the economics of the new world as well.

By the way, anyone else out there on SecondLife ? My character is called “Rodrigo Television.

update: interesting article on Trademark issues in second life.