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I’m especially excited to give this news, because Nvivo is a project that I practically saw being born and because Carlos Sanchez, its founder is a fantastic person with whom I’ve had very good communication all this time.

This is how the news of investment is released in Nvivo: We’re happy to announce that nvivo.es has closed a first round of financing with investments from Luis Martín Cabiedes, Europa Press, the Bergareche family through its business promotion company Berquet Desarrollo Empresarial (Berquet Business Development) and other private investors.

Since quite some time Carlos Sanchez was talking about the need for financing to further grow Nvivo and above all to take the model to other countries. I’m sure that with this investment, Carlos will turn his project into a point of reference for live music.

My congratulations to Txarly and to the investors who have confided in the project of Nvivo. This sure is a good present for Epiphany :)

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Let’s see where I can begin…

1) Terra.es/twitter will not be the Spanish version of Twitter, rather it will be a Twitter within Terra.

2) What’s the need for a Spanish version of Twitter? For four menus in English that everyone understands? The rest is the messages that create the community.

3) What will Twitter benefit from this? I hope they are earning money because if it’s some other kind of agreement of collaboration, exchange, … then I wouldn’t understand.

4) The amount of time it takes in Spain to start an initiative… since September we have been talking about this topic of Telefonica/Terra and Twitter.

5) Twitter has not worked in Spain and will not work invaluable and marvellous contribution of Mr. Juanjo Amorín. By the way, his blogger era hasn’t lasted for long or maybe he thinks that blogging is not done in holidays.

6) I like this because it’s a confirmation that the model of Twitter is valid. In Genbeta, they tell us that there will be a political debate in which people send their questions via Twitter.

7) Continuing with Genbeta: when the Spanish version comes out, will you use it? (as Carlos Blanco would say) NO.

8) Let’s see if someone can guess which user’s community is represented in the screen capture that shows the tiny images of the best of the hispanic blogosphere.

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The GPS devices shop ActivaGPS has just started a service called Nav2us that allows users to share geolocalized places and multimedia content through their GPS device.

Nav2us utilizes the API’s of various map services and of some mashups to offer the user a series of options that improve the experience of using a GPS navigator.

The principal functionality of Nav2us is to offer the members of the community a place to share the location of their places, something that sites like Tagzania or Wikiloc already do. And the main utility that I see is that one can download content directly from the website to a GPS connected to the computer.

Nav2us has versions in Spanish, English and French. It’s a good strategy to come out in various languages and promote the use of the site on an international level.

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I love all that the friends of Blogsmedia do and from what I’ve seen, it seems that I’m also going to like Youare.

The domain name itself says a lot. It’s a site for people and is born with an international calling. It’s general approach is that of a social network with a focus on simplicity, on the lines of Twitter.

Twitter + Tumblr + Linkedin + Del.icio.us + Secret ingredient = YouAre

As you can see, YouAre pursues the goal of obtaining the best of social applications and social networks to offer its users a new form of communication between friends.

In this way, YouAre is microblogging (like Twitter), will allow the use of videos and images apart from text (like Tumblr), will facilitate networking between users (like Linkedin), share links (like del.icio.us) and surely many more things.

Besides, they are looking to create channels for cities, themes, professions, … something that can give it an important sense of community and fidelize users to a great extent.

For the moment, we know little else about YouAre apart from what they describe in their presentation of the product and what we can see from photos on Flickr. We will have to wait a little to try the private beta. They will start showing the project in February at some events.

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Every time it’s getting more difficult to do such selections as the majority of the really interesting projects in the hispanic web 2.0 have received funding during the course of 2007 or are about to get funded.

Summarizing a bit we can see that I haven’t erred much in my selections:

The prediction of end of 2006 has been realized in its entirety. Panoramio purchased by Google, Econozco purchased by Xing and Mobuzztv hasn’t disclosed any information but I’m almost certain that they have received investment.

In the summer of this year, I dared to do a second selection with Festuc, Trovit and eyeOS. The only one that has been confirmed has been Trovit just a few days ago. At Festuc they still haven’t gone for the first round of financing, but I’m sure that they will find the money as soon as they decide to get funded. And eyeOS doesn’t lack suitors, Martin Varsavsky was very close to investing but it seems that they couldn’t agree on the valuation of the project.

I didn’t want to end 2007 without making another selection of projects in which to invest, so here are those who I believe will receive funding during the course of 2008:

Catodicos: it’s a social network for aficionados of television series, created by Ivan San Martín and has the support of Fivelab. With a rage for television series these days and taking into account how well designed this social network is, I have no doubt that VCs will be interested in investing in this project.

Ebuga: is a social network about the world of cars and motor, founded by Edu Bayo and John Shaw. As far as I know, it hasn’t received investment although it’s founders have had to put a good amount of money as the development has been of a high standard. When they do receive external funding, I’m sure it will be of several million euros.

Escapada Rural: is a directory of rural cottages which is slowly incorporating social functionalities. For the moment, it’s a simple project but it has been designed with such care that it could become a huge hit amongst its users. My advice for its creators is to keep going on the same lines and to be seen at events where projects are presented to investors.

Other projects worth following which I believe haven’t received any investment are: Kroonos, 20palabras, RedKaraoke, Omemo and Adnstream.

With this I conclude, and all that’s left for me to do is to wish you a Happy 2008!

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