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Martin Varsavsky joins vpod.tv as an angel investor

San Francisco, 23 June 2006 – All our team at vpod.tv is delighted to announce at Supernova that serial-entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky has invested an undisclosed amount in our company, and will contribute his experience and energy to the development of our venture.

Martin’s experience in developping young companies from the ground up will provide us with invaluable insight: Martin and his THIRD company Viatel invented call-back back in the early 1990s; he’s also the founder of Jazztel, Spain’s second largest publicly traded telecom operator, and of ya.com, Spain’s 3rd largest ISP among other companies. He’s most recently known as the founder of fon, a community-empowered company dedicated to building the world’s largest global WiFi network bottom up. He is also very much engaged in non-profit organisations through the Varsavsky Foundation.

Martin has shown constant dedication to promoting young European startups and entrepreneurs, confident that Europe can create global players.He has recently invested for example in web 2.0 startups netvibes and wikio.

Another important piece of news: the Spanish team at vpod.tv shall now be moving into offices in the same building as FON in Madrid.

Thanks Martin for your trust and friendship.

vpod.tv does behind the scenes coverage of Supernova 2006

Here are some videos shot by our CEO, Rodrigo Sepulveda. He will be uploading all 12 presentations of the selected Connected Innovators shortly.

Want a vpod.tv sticker ?

  Esme Vos 
  Originally uploaded by rsepulveda.

Dear Friends,

if we didn't have the chance to meet here at Supernova, and grab a vpod.tv sticker (such as the one that Esme Vos has on her computer), you can always get them from www.valleyschwag.com, who got a large number of them for your benefit.

In addition, I understand they also have got some vpod.tv white and black T-shirts.

We shall shortly be opening our own goodies shop, so you will be able to get them from us directly. In order to help us select the right products for you, what would you like ? Stickers ? baseball caps ? T-shirts ? polo shirts ? gold balls ? etc ?

Yours,
Rodrigo

Update: it seems the stickers are now in the field here and here.

Our first vpod.tv ad that we will be showing tonight at Supernova !

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vpod.tv to present at Supernova this week

Although we had already announced our selection as a 'Connected Innovator' at the upcoming Supernova 2006 conference this week, we are glad to publish here the press release that Supernova released last week to the US press nationwide:

"SAN FRANCISCO—May 29, 2006— The Supernova Group has teamed with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com to select an elite group of start-up companies as “Connected Innovators.” The Connected Innovators who will present at the Supernova 2006 Conference are: Attensa, Ether, LifeIO, Netvibes, PROTOMOBL, PostApp, Sharpcast, SoonR, StumbleUpon, Vpod.tv, Webaroo, and ZiXXo. Each company was handpicked for its potential to create new markets and define the connected future. The Supernova 2006 Conference, co-produced with The Wharton School, will be held in San Francisco from June 21-23, at Wharton West and the Palace Hotel.

A highlight of the Supernova Conference, the Connected Innovators program brings together the creators of exciting emerging technologies – many launching for the first time -- with the industry’s top technology and business influencers. Each company will present its technology to a live audience on June 22 at 6:00PM. For the first time, Connected Innovators’ presentations will also be video-streamed into a special Supernova Lounge, hosted by Yahoo! in Linden Lab’s Second Life, the explosive 3-D virtual world. Custom presentation tools provided by developer, Electric Sheep Company, will provide Second Life residents a parallel virtual conference experience.

“The next phase of innovation has clearly begun and, as always, Supernova is shining light on what’s in store for the technology world. These 12 innovators were selected from scores of promising ventures as epitomizing how the world will expect to be -- and need to be -- connected,” said Kevin Werbach, Supernova founder and assistant professor at Wharton. “Bringing this group together with Supernova’s esteemed participants will only help drive the development and impact of technology’s next big wave. This is what Supernova is all about.”

Read the whole press release here: Download connected_innovators_press_release.pdf

Vloggercon rocks

Ivan and Rodrigo have started covering vloggercon live !

vpod.tv powers winner of 1st citizen blog contest

We are proud to congratulate the team of ‘Gigashow en Normandie’ who were nominated and won the 1st Citizen blog award in the local economy category, for their video blog. They’ve been alpha users of our vpod.tv platform since early 2006.

Congrats!

More coverage on pointblog.

vpod.tv is a proud sponsor of vloggercon in San Francisco this week

This weekend, our CEO Rodrigo and COO Ivan will be representing vpod.tv at the annual vlogger (= video blogger) conference in California: vloggercon. Many other companies from our space shall also be there, among prominent videobloggers.

Expect a lot of interaction, great video footage and industry insights. Rodrigo & Ivan will be reporting live.

vpod.tv is proud to sponsor the conference and help make it a great success.

vpod.tv was mentionned in Les Echos last week

Front page, originally uploaded by rsepulveda.

Virginie Robert, who runs the "Les Echos Innovation" wednesday supplement to the French #1 financial daily wrote a special issue on Internet TV and video.

vpod.tv was mentionned of course, with a couple of quote from our CEO.