MobuzzTV was a vlog

Vlog

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 (video

Video

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 blog

Blog

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) that posted a new five-minute high-quality video show recorded once a day (Monday through Friday) in Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, Spain. The videos were designed to be convenient for viewing on mobile phone

Mobile phone

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s and iPod

IPod

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s. They were downloadable in a number of popular formats

File format

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 (including 720p

720p

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 High-Definition

High-definition television

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) and streamed

Streaming media

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 via YouTube

YouTube

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 and MobuzzTV. Each program was available in Spanish, English and French versions, containing very similar content

Content (media and publishing)

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. These versions were hosted by Iria Gallardo, Gabe Mac (Gabriel McIntyre) and Osiris Martinez respectively when MobuzzTV closed in November 2008.

The final days were taken up with a Save Mobuzz campaign, aiming to raise 120,000 Euros of donations from followers. The demise of MobuzzTV led to the project's inclusion as a nominee in the Fiasco Awards 2009.

Web 2.0

On the MobuzzTV website, each show was accompanied by links relevant to the topics discussed. As a proponent of Web 2.0

Web 2.0

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, viewers were encouraged to participate by contributing interesting, useful or amusing links, videos and story ideas in the "Newsroom 2.0", and by posting creative comments for each show.

Content and Style

MobuzzTV generally highlighted stories about technology

Technology

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 and Internet

Internet

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-related topics not typically covered in traditional news media

News media

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. However, a variety of current events were also covered. Editorially it was similar to the earlier science, technology and media news service Radiofax (radio station)

Radiofax (radio station)

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, which broadcast on shortwave

Shortwave

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 between 1988 and 1992. The MobuzzTV presentation was rather light, often funny, and sometimes campy

Camp (style)

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.

Video content was released under a creative commons

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 license.

Hosts

Person	From	To	Language	Accent
Gabriel McIntyre			English	Transglobal
Olivia Waters			English	Received Pronunciation Received Pronunciation Received Pronunciation , also called the Queen's English, Oxford English or BBC English, is the accent of Standard English in England, with a relationship to regional accents similar to the relationship in other European languages between their standard varieties and their regional forms...
Osiris Martinez			French
Susan Hickey			English	Irish
Iria Gallardo			Spanish
Karina Stenquist			English	North American United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Emma Rebaldi			English
Anil de Mello (Founder)	Ad hoc Ad hoc Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning "for this". It generally signifies a solution designed for a specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to be able to be adapted to other purposes. Compare A priori....	Ad hoc Ad hoc Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning "for this". It generally signifies a solution designed for a specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to be able to be adapted to other purposes. Compare A priori....	English	Spanish Spanish people The Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....