Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz

ranked #11 top english blog, out of more than 4000

in the everlasting contest of who has the largest ________ (fill in the space), Criteo has just published a list of bloggers. Ha! 1 place to make it in the top 10. Not that it matters much though, I only know Don's blog in the top 10.

interesting study of French video consumption

Published by Isobar (part of ex-Carat, Aegis Media) here. Also described on the JdN.
Another interesting piece of the impact of video advertising online and on TV, here by MillwardBrown (see press release, March 26).
Finally, a piece on the impact of video for e-tailers.

Happy 5th year alumni status to my classmates !

 

This weekend, we celebrated our 5th year reunion at INSEAD, "a business school based in the forest in France", as Dean Franck Brown said :)))

Great to see so many of you, and I was surprised to hear that actually a few read this blog. Fantastic career moves for many of them, balding heads sometimes, grayer for sure, and even bigger figures :)

 

Looking forward to the next encounters. A few pictures here.

Bill Maher on France

Hilarious, and very much on target.

vpod.tv on LCI (3rd time)

 

Cédric Ingrand invited vpod.tv back, one year after the initial appearance to discuss our progression, new features, business model, customers. Thanks for the invite. Video edited from the 2 official podcasts to include only the parts relevant to vpod.tv.

What twitter tells you...

Most certainly a marketing strategy for a startup ? :) I'd make sure not to reveal too much. Although I agree with the fact that ideas have no value, execution matters, and you might not want to disclose too much of it ?

Example here from Jeremie Berrebi on twitter (edited from the non-relevant parts to this post):

                         

"* Meeting with Xavier Niel @Iliad/Free in 20mins   about 3 hours ago from TwitBin

* Just finished a lunch with Michel de Guilhermier   about 5 hours ago from mobile web

With Oliver Jung, one of the biggest German Business Angel (Mariott Hotel-Champs Elysees)   about 8 hours ago from mobile web

* Meeting with Xavier Marvaldi (M6Web CEO) in 5 mins.   about 11 hours ago from mobile web

* Registered Faceshops.com :-)   09:19 PM May 27, 2007 from TwitBin

* With Guillaume Cabane & Frederic Clement@Villa Pereire   05:51 PM May 27, 2007 from mobile web

* With Christophe from Effiliation@Villa Pereire   05:22 PM May 27, 2007 from mobile web

* It's raining in Paris !! Arrived near place pereire for a lunch with Eric Bennephtali, Kingoloto President   01:44 PM May 27, 2007 from mobile web

* Just found an excellent blog in english about Web2.0 & Asia: http://www.web20asia.com/   12:27 PM May 27, 2007 from TwitBin

* Playing with Facebook : My profile is here : http://tinyurl.com/2duvyl   11:28 AM May 27, 2007 from TwitBin

* Testing Twitter from Facebook....The Facebook API will really kills all the others social networks   05:29 AM May 27, 2007 from Facebook

* Just arrived in Paris-3.30am. It will be a very long day :-)   04:29 AM May 27, 2007 from mobile web

* In the plane to Paris. Taking off in 5mins...Good night   11:38 PM May 26, 2007 from mobile web                       * Zlio is still looking for his VP US Operations : http://tinyurl.com/24wu7n   02:45 PM May 25, 2007 from TwitBin                       * @tariqkrim: Can you check for me who are the best affiliation network in Japan ?   08:45 AM May 25, 2007 from TwitBin               in reply to tariqkrim                       *Calling Clauer   03:02 PM May 24, 2007 from TwitBin                       "

OK, this might not tell you much, but to the trained Internet professional you see that:

• ZLIO (Jeremie's company) is preparing to go to Asia
• is developping an affiiliation / viral strategy
• is meeting / talking to Microsoft (technology guy), Apple (B2B shops guy)
• developping a startegy on social network Facebook
• looking for investors or is co-investing with some of the top connected European B2B investors
• meeting with clients / potential clients (with names !)...

Read twits folks, read twits... Even Scoble discovers stuff on twits. And I hence respectfully disagree with Pierre Chappaz on the importance of it (maybe he was just trying to create some buzz :) ?.

"Quand l'Internet fait des bulles" - launch party

 

Nice editing of footage at the launch party of Benjamin's movie recently. My voice is awful as I was hours from a total voice extinction...

Martin and the video space.

Martin V. has a good post about the internet video sector, and his investments in it, including vpod.tv, sevenload.de, Joost, Azureus.

Update : my selection of excerpts:

"I was looking at the TV Channels that Loic Le Meur built using the infrastructure of Vpod.tv and I was super impressed at how studio like quality, a one person effort can be."

"Currently if you produce video content of any kind and are purely looking for audiences Youtube is the place to be. But if you are like my friend Loic Le Meur, France´s top blogger, or myself with a personal blog with over 200K viewers platforms such as Vpod are better because you can control them more. And in any case, in a world of free video posting you are not forced to choose. In my case I post videos in Sevenload, Youtube and Vpod (I am an investor in Sevenload and Vpod). I choose Youtube for the audiences. Vpod for the superb quality of the platform... "

At LCI today

 

a little make always helps... The show goes live on podcast tonight, and on French TV tomorrow and 4 more times over the week.

why I don't blog anymore

Have you noticed I don't blog as much as before anymore ? Basically, it seems my friends have finally picked up videoblogging at last, and they are all busy bringing their lives on screen. Good.

In addition, more and more sites are reporting * EXCLUSIVE * news (such as with 1 hour notice :) - you'll recognize them), hence I don't need to do that either.

In addition, I'm having a lot of fun catching up on Twitter and telling people when I'm brushing my teeth.

But the real reason is I'm busy blogging over here, with lots of exciting new stuff.