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Friday, December 5, 2008
Help Zemanta Win The Mashable Open Web Awards 2008!
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Why Community Matters
Vero Pepperrell presented it as part of the Future of Mobile, on 17th Nov 2008 at Kensington Town Hall.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Future of Mobile 2008 - London - Conference day
Warning: This post includes a rant! Please do not read it if you are easily offended.
I attended the Future of Mobile conference in London organized by Carsonified. I must say I was very disappointed because of some organizational fails. I was expecting much more from such a team as the Carsonified team. Their conferences were synonyms of greatly organized conferences, nice venues and friendly stuff.
At FOM I've been sadly disappointed many times. Here is why:
- No free Wi-fi. The friendly lady at the registration desk suggested to pay for a BT Wi-fi connection. The problem is that Wi-fi was clearly promised on the conference website. Call me picky if you want but If something is promised I expect it to be delivered (since we've paid more than 600€ to attend the conference and workshops). I guess most of those who attended need an internet connection to work even when they are at a conference.
- No goodie bags. Where were the beautiful Carsonified Journals or FOM T-shirts? I haven't seen them, so even if I wanted to buy some for the team back home I just could not. Is the crowd of FOM inferior to the one at FOWA?
- No lunch. I can live with this one, but still 600+€ and no lousy lunch? At least we had lunch on workshop day.
On the other side the talks were good, some of them exceptional. I will write an in-depth overview of the talks as soon as I manage to collect all the slide sets.
Here is the lineup and my rating of the talks:
- Rudy de Waele (mTrends) - 4/5 - overview of trends in mobile, nice presentation and a good start.
- Simon Rockman with Rich Miner (Google), James McCarthy (Microsoft), David Wood (Symbian), Andy Bush (Li Mo Foundation), Olivier Bartholot (Purple Labs) - 1/5 - a bunch of mobile OS guys, talking about the wrong problems. Where are cross platform standards?!?
- Dough Richard (Trutap) - 4/5 - some promotion for Trutap and an interesting view on the mobile market. There is huge potential in emerging markets.
- Mathew Millar (Adobe) - 3/5 - open screen. Flash is installed on 1 billion devices. Can we get a cross platform API, so we can port the stuff from desktops to mobiles? Can we get access to the camera and microphone via Flash?
- Tom Hume (Future Platforms) - 5/5 - a really great overview of the pain points one will encounter while trying to create a mobile app. Realy nice slide set.
- 6x6 UK bloggers:
- Andrew Grill (london-calling.org.uk) - 4/5 - nice explanation of mobile marketing
- Vero Pepperrell (Pepsmedia) - 4/5 - social media all over the place
- Helen Keegan (Beep Marketing) - 5/5 - great talk by focusing on people instead of technology. I completely agree! Good job Helen ;)
- James Whatley (Whatleydude + Spinvox) - 4/5
- Jemima Kiss (The Guardian) - 4/5 - good use of the words "shit" and "fucking" :)
- Ewen MacLeod (Mobile Industry Review) - 4/5 - again nice usage of "piece of shit"
- Rich Miner (Google Android) - 4/5 - interesting presentation about the path to Android and reasoning behind it; Google claims it does not control Android app development. Come on, who are they kidding :)
- Andrew J Scott (Rummble) - 4/5 - Location based services 101 + Rummble
- Tomi Ahonen - 4/5 - A looooonnnnnggggg, but good joke at the beginning. Mobile as the 7th Mass Media book promotion. Some data about mobile content business, good use cases.
- jMac (jonathanmacdonald.com) - 5/5 - great talk about marketing in the mobile world. Saw the "punch" cartoon for the third time that day. We have segments of one. Really loved this talk.
- Yahoo! Blueprint - not another mobile OS, not a platform for games, not proprietary, not limited to Yahoo! it is a sort of platform for cross device development (they say thousands of devices). Blueprint works as an app in Yahoo!Go or as a standalone app or as a mobile web app (more info).
- A great panel with guys from startups and operators. Moderated by Ewen MacLeod
- Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone)
- Mark Curtis (Flirtomatic)
- Alfie Dennen (Moblog)
- Justin Davies (BuddyPing / SkyHook) - thanks to James Whatley for helping me here.
- Carl Uminski (Trutap)
- James Body (Truphone)
- Sam Machin (I will pretend that I don't know who Sam is working for)
Footnote: The following image has been shown at least three times during the conference.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
The Canary is Dead = Something is Wrong in Venture Capital
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Web Trends With Mary Meeker - 2008
Last year I posted Mary Meeker's presentation about trends on the web in 2007. Here you have this year's one, full of interesting numbers again.
Just to tease you a little:
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