Comments on: Mobuzz Folds After All

By: vinny

vinny — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:21:02 +0000

Karina was the best, the rest were a mess

By: Martin Ringlein

Martin Ringlein — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:45:40 +0000

and I suppose “coming soon!” makes for a blog too?

“creative” is a subjective term, where as a revenue model and being profitable seems pretty definable.

Glad to see there is no moBuzz around. Seriously, how hard would it be to keep alive? It is a low budget Wayne’s World via a YouTube channel.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:07:25 +0000

If you look at the official statements for 2006:

http://victorga...11/mobuzz06.pdf

you will notice they made 32.000€ in revenue, which is about what they got in donations in the panhandle exercise. Not sure what the numbers for 2007 are, but it’s clear that a monthly burn of 50.000€ cannot be justified after four years, against such revenues. I’m not surprised nobody wanted to invest further.

It’s mind-boggling, and that goes for you too Loic, who should know better (you did cut costs, right?), that a company goes out to ask for donations but gives no details about what they will do to cut costs and make the company survive is not giving the best signals. After the weekend they resumed operations as if nothing had happened, with the same schedules, programming, staff, and plush office in one of the most expensive areas of Madrid.

Sad to see them go, for sure, but that’s what happens when you miss-manage a company.

By: Nellboy

Nellboy — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:42:31 +0000

oooffff… pwned (in classic web2.0 parlance)

By: Robin Wauters

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:06:10 +0000

Because that’s easier than doing it yourself?

By: Anonimos...

Anonimos... — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:38:29 +0000

I guess that those of you who can read Spanish will find the following article very enlightening:
http://www.alfr...de-la-cancamusa

By: Loic

Loic — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:18:16 +0000

this is very sad and I find the comments here unfair and tough towards an entrepreneur, Anil, who spent 4 years of his life dedicated to building an innovative web TV based in Europe.

It is bad news for any video content on the web, it shows how tough it is to monetize it, unfortunately, and very sad for entrepreneurship when a friend fails.

I will never understand people throwing stones at someone who has genuinely tried really hard.

By: TechFlixer

TechFlixer — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:16:35 +0000

Chris: The above video by Mobuzz CEO Anil de Mello is about 3 weeks old.

Looks like the international talent pool keeps raising. During the last downturn, many companies including Google and PayPal benefited by hiring super talented people. It would be interesting to see who benefits from the latest avaialble talent.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:05:04 +0000

I just watched the video in this post – it suggests that mobuzz is in fact continuing – or is this an old video?

By: chris

chris — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:01:29 +0000

How does Rocketboom make money? I read once (somewhere) that they had an advertising dept. but I dont (and have never) seen any ads on Rocketboom!

By: Andraz Tori

Andraz Tori — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:46:05 +0000

Karina has set the standard so high that it was just hard to watch the show after she left.

But anyway, probably they had quite a big problem selling the advertising, very disperse population watching it.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:46:20 +0000

Rocketboom is still going strong, http://www.rocketboom.com/, still using that minimalistic layout of always (although a tiny bit less minimalistic now than a few years ago).

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By: man

man — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:08:25 +0000

Following the Rocketboom debacle with Amanda every site manager knows to bring a team of talents rather than being dependent on one host even if s/he is very good.

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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:22:02 +0000

[...] its loyal users to help with donations so it could survive the tough economic times. However it has failed to muster enough donations and has shut the service down. The team had however managed to collect [...]

By: SitesInSpanish

SitesInSpanish — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:47:24 +0000

Talking about sites in spanish, there are plenty of startups fluorishing in that market, like notimega.com a digg clone in spanish and mercadolibre.com like ebay but for latin america.

By: Weather Lord

Weather Lord — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:36:29 +0000

Round 1: Flynn vs Martin
Flynn 1, Martin 0

By: ck

ck — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:03:24 +0000

yeah thats true sopharine. Without Karina mobuzz was a mess. I tried to watch .. but all other hosts cannot match Karina’s presentation skills

By: sopharine

sopharine — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:26:19 +0000

I stopped watch mobuzz when Karina had left.
There’s always a major problem for these television2.0:
when the host left ,viewer left too.

By: man

man — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:06:04 +0000

I’m very sad Mobuzz is down. They inspired me to take part in the online video space.

By: Matt Woodhams

Matt Woodhams — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:03:37 +0000

@Martin Ringlein: Moobuzz was/is a bit more than just a blog and a video camera…
My company (medialabs.net) is working on a similar alternative to Moobuzz, we just got government funding here in Chile. Here’s a sneak peak if your interested http://www.revistagamer.com.

By: Flynn Like

Flynn Like — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:56:40 +0000

“Built on a mac, managed through textpattern, hosted by mediatemple” doesn’t make a “creative web design agency” either…

By: bryanf

bryanf — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:47:56 +0000

I used to watch their Daily Buzz video podcast, I thought it brought an interesting European perspective on many tech news items.

For me it went sharply downhill with the latest presenter, he just annoyed the hell out of me. And not just because he wasn’t a hot chick, he just seemed cocky and ignorant, which is not a combination I enjoy watching.

They never had sponsors for their shows that I can remember, which would’ve been a smart way to go. I don’t mind a brief ad between segments of a video podcast, everyone has to eat.

By: Martin Ringlein

Martin Ringlein — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:58:27 +0000

Classic example of where a website does not equate to a “start-up”. With no real means of generating revenue, this is more of a “website” or “web project” than it is a “start-up”.

An install of MoveableType, a video camera and a Vimeo account are not really the tools of a true entrepreneur.

Calling it “Television2.0″ doesn’t necessarily make it so.