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Creativity not a Job Req.

// August 17th, 2009 // 12 Comments » // life, thought, Work

It seems that I am to creative to get a regular job. My whole life I’ve always been in startups. Even as a teenager. I never really understood why it was. Until lately that is. I’ve been looking for work too pay off enormous debts from bankruptcies at Mobuzz.tv and Xolo.tv (notice there is nothing to link too on those 2 sites?).

Only time I travel is if it is getting paid for by a speaking job or something, which I then couch surf and hang out with some of my great friends all over the world. So don’t feel to bad for me. In that sense I’m blessed. But I digress. I’ve been looking for a job, and I keep getting these type of rejections. Like this one I just got in:

I saw you application for Producer Interactive Media. Thank you for that. To be frank: I don’t think its the right job for you. You seem way to creative and enterprising for this type of work that is basically organizing, negotiating budgets, making plannings etc. You probably thought It was much more exciting….

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Mobuzz runner up for Fiasco awards

// March 8th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // mobuzz, Technology, Work

Apparently Mobuzz.tv was one of 9 nominated companies to win the Fiasco award in Barcelona. No, this doesn’t make me feel like a failure at all! Thank god Vista came out.

Microsoft’s Vista wins Fiasco Award – Apple 2.0

A quirky, slightly tongue-in-cheek project of the Catalan Association of Telecommunications Engineers, the Fiasco Awards are designed not to “criticize” or “engage in public derision,” according to their website, but to recognize that “technological advance is not a straight path” and that “success and fiasco are … head and tail of the same coin.”

“God rewards fools,” reads the award’s logo.

Using a balloting system weighted to ensure that “an opportunity was given to local projects,” a consolation prize went to SAGA, the Administration and Academic Management System of the Catalan Government.

The nine finalists were all over the lot, mixing the famous, the local and the obscure. The list included One Laptop Per Child’s $100 computer; Linden Lab’s Second Life; Google’s (GOOG) Lively; the DAB digital radio system used in Europe; the Madrid-based Mobuzz.tv project; Maresme Digital, a project for bringing digital television to Catalonia; and some Linux-based free software packs distributed by the local government administration.

Here is the video. Mobuzz is number 4. Well at least we are with some big names.

Mobuzz is closed

// November 25th, 2008 // 21 Comments » // mobuzz, Work

So it is now sprung out on the internet. Last week Mobuzz closed it’s office. We were told that we would be able to continue, but as things go, that turned out not to be the case. There will be an official message from Anil today about what happend. All I can say it was a really great experience being here in MADrid, and now I am wondering what to do next. So yes I am looking for something new to do. Maybe something that was already offered, maybe start something new myself, maybe continue doing old projects with friends. So first thing I will do, what I am doing now, is take some time off, see family, friends, relax after the roller coaster ride of the last year. Being in Spain I have grown so much, although you wouldn’t tell from all the party pictures it is true. I am not worried or sad about what happened. It is the way things go sometimes. It is time now to decide crap or cone folks. I decide cone.

I know a lot of people are worried at the moment about finding a job, there are lots of things going on out there. I am not worried. Being worried moves my focus to the negative. So I am going to probably be doing some traveling, hitting some conferences and putting up some of my own videos like I usually do. I am a vlogger at heart and will remain so till the end I think. I will miss working with my new friends like Meriam, Osi and Cedric a lot. But who knows what the future may hold. In any case life is an adventure, and with every door that closes a new one opens. Want some more cliches? Ok. here it is, “Fuck it Dude, let’s go bowling!”

So now I am trying to figure out where to go. Back to Amsterdam, stay in Madrid, maybe Australia, Ethiopia, London, San Fran, Toronto, who knows. There are lots of options I have open. I will land on my feet somewhere. Curious to see where. Only thing is now I really should get some biz cards made. Hmmm…. Or maybe not.

Save Mobuzz.TV Update

// November 5th, 2008 // No Comments » // entertainment, mobuzz, press

Dear Readers. Here is an update thus far on the Save Mobuzz.tv campaign. We have raised over 20,000 euro in 24 hours. This is an amazing amount, but we still need 100,000 to keep Mobuzz going. The good news is that there is a lot of attention. More people twittered about Mobuzz in Spain than the election last night. Last night Obama won the election to become President of the U.S. A historical moment. I know many of you voted for this change. Now we are trying to change media on the web with this campaign. It seems as though the donations are slowing down, so please keep giving and supporting. We only have a week. Take a banner from here and place it on your profile page, blog, website, whatever. Below is a video update as well. Thank you all for your continued support. It is not over yet.

-GabeMac and the Mobuzz team

Save Mobuzz – Wednesday Nov 5th Update from Anil de Mello on Vimeo.