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This German based site allows users to upload pictures and create small games. I just created one of myself. See if you can knock me out.

I lost to Michael Arrington from Techcrunch. =( But I opened a can of whoop-ass on myself though.

Reply to this post if you’d like to receive an invite for Spock. I wrote about Spock here.

[Update] Invites ran out!

In two sentences…what is your background and what does Bubblare do?

I’m a student at Stockholm School of Economics and a former marketer at another Swedish youth community (Hamsterpaj.net). Bubblare is a place for Swedish people to upload and watch their own video material.

More about your company. Why another video upload site?

Bubblare.se was the very first video upload site in the Nordic Region. The background was (and still is) that it is hard for a person speaking a small language (such as Swedish) to reach out to an international audience. And there was no arena for a local audience to gather at. Being almost half a year ahead of our first competitors Bubblare attracted a lot of viewers and uploaders creating a critical mass of videos to watch and share. And with the original idea of creating a local video site still important, this critical mass has continued to grow. The growing interest has also created a need of resources, and today Bubblare has 10 employees.

Numbers. Numbers. Numbers?

With the content being of a popular sharing nature (video) the traffic can fluctuate a lot from time to time. When a clip suddenly is discovered and spread the traffic can reach numbers of the largest websites in Sweden, whereas during more low-frequent uploads, traffic usually stays around 100′-200′ per week.

How are you guys funded?

Netclips (as the name of the registered company is) generates incomes in two ways: via Bubblare’s various advertisements and via our tech department which helps other websites to set up video services of their own.

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Sorosh Tavakoli has something very interesting lined up in his sleeve. Check out his blog about the future of the TV and his revolution.

Just recently, Sorosh, conducted a study on Moving Pictures.

Joost created an invitation page for Techcrunch readers. 10,000 invites! Looks like their scalability issues are solved with this. But you never know. I never expected them to rush out their service this fast and face many problems in the first place….

“How can you convert parts of your business into new streams of profit?”

Bjorn Jeffery recently spoke about this at Stanford’s Innovation Journalism Conference few days ago. He uploaded his presentation called New Media Alchemy and it’s highly a recommended read.