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I find it quite amusing to give this news because I think it’s the first investment in a Spanish startup that has been announced directly from Twitter. It was on the 2nd of April when Fernando Egido of CAN and Hector Milla of Balzac TV made comments on Twitter about the meetings they were holding.

It has been since quite some time now that Hector Milla started working on the idea behind Balzac TV. In October, we talked about Balzac.tv, an idea, a voice and a camera. Gradually, the idea has turned into a company that now announces it has received funding.

Balzac TV is a videoblog about innovation. It’s not going to be as easy to make it profitable as a videoblog about cars or videogames, but the truth is that what we can see now is so well done that surely it will become a reference that companies would want to sponsor.

Another business model that surely they will be considering when the time is right would be to sell video content to the traditional media as it’s becoming increasingly obvious that the TV folks are running short of creativity and would like to count on novel content like the one offered by Balzac TV.

Via Carlos Blanco.

The staff of Fivelab is announcing the coming-out of Catodicos, the social network for aficionados of televesion series of which we talked when it was released in private beta.

Now Catodicos is open and everyone can participate in this community where basically you can follow your preferred television series and discover new ones.

As I have said previously, I like Catodicos a lot but I think there are some things which can be improved. Here are my recommendations for its creators:

Make the user’s page as the point of entry to the site. This way the user will see the calendar and timetable of his favourite series as soon as he enters the site, and also view other users involved in the community, … This will make the user identify more with the application.

Recommend a series to a friend from the page of the series itself. When you are discovering new series through the list of series, enable the possibility of sending recommendation messages to other members of the community from the page of the series. (This already exists, the people behind Catodicos are involved in everything)

List of series by types. I generally like series that have an argumental thread like 24, lost, heroes, … I don’t quite like series in which each episode is a different story, that’s why I think it would be useful to know the type for each series.

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