Yes! it’s that time of year again; holidays and Christmas etc.  This year has been a great one for the mobile industry and for Mobile Monday.

Our end of year event is always a relaxed one and this year at Bungalow 8 down at King Street Wharf (from 6.30pm) there’ll be no presentations, just catching up with friends, drinking, and a little networking so you can line up all those deals for 2010.  We’ve got a couple of great sponsors who are going to put some money over the bar for a drink or two.

The first sponsor is Oliver Palmer and the gang at Tigerspike who are regular attendees and speakers at our events.  Check out some of their very impressive mobile case studies.

Then there’s also David McWhirter and the team at Touchpoint who have their own interesting case studies of interactive digital marketing solutions.

More sponsors are also welcome, so if you want to support the local mobile industry getting together for a chat and a drink, then feel free to contact us.

Unfortunately we have to move from our home at The Blackett Hotel, due to renovations, but we’ll be back in February 2010 to start the new year for Mobile Monday Sydney in a new venue.

So it’s going to be a huge Mobile Monday Sydney on November 2nd:

1. Opening with Michael Harries talking about the future of mobile

2. Danny & Nick from Insqribe talking about their QR Code/AR marketing solution

3. Last, but not least: Rob from MOB talking about:

Imagine looking around and seeing rich images, videos and
information overlaid upon each of the items you see.

This is no longer a sci-fi promise - it is available on your iPhone and
other modern mobile phones right now.  This presentation looks at where
this technology is today, the tools MOB have used and developed…and
where it’s headed in the near future.

We will look at the implications for developers, business, Government
and the Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) industry.
We will explore how this changes the concept of Public and not so Public
Spaces and how you relate to your customers/users.

Bio:
Rob Manson is Managing Director of MOB, an Innovation Lab based in
Sydney.  He has been working with cutting-edge technologies since the
early 90s and is focused upon creating tangible experiences that change
the way you see technology, business and the world around you.

MOB create innovative iPhone, Mobile and Internet based Applications and
have created Augmented Reality (AR) applications and ARt installations
for public display and consumer markets.

MOB’s customers include the Sydney Opera House, Sculpture by the Sea,
The Royal Eastershow, IAG, Warner Music and St George to name a few.
Recently MOB have created a Mobile Augmented Reality experience using
historic images of Sydney that the Powerhouse Museum released to the
Flickr Commons, a Mobile AR experience for Sculpture by the Sea and MOB
regularly contribute to the Open Government/Open Data movement in
Australia including mentoring on Mobile & AR development at
http://govhack.org and http://hackfest.openaustralia.org

:: 6.30pm for 7pm start, Mon 2nd November 2009
:: Level 3 @ The Blacket Hotel
:: Entry on King Street via the Blacket Hotel. (Here’s a map)

We’ll be having a couple of talks about Augmented Reality at our next Mobile Monday, the first will be by the guys at Insqribe (Danny Housseas - Co-founder and Chief Product Officer & Nick Gonios - Business focus and growth dude

Acratus Pty Ltd has launched a real-time marketing platform called Insqribe. The Insqribe platform uniquely enables brands, marketing agencies and mobile developers to present, track and measure mobile Augmented Reality (AR) and QR codes on mobile consumer services in real time.

The Acratus team will present successful QR code case studies & insights and also demonstrate the Insqribe mobile AR platform.

Insqribe

:: 6.30pm for 7pm start, Mon 2nd November 2009
:: Level 3 @ The Blacket Hotel
:: Entry on King Street via the Blacket Hotel. (Here’s a map)

For our November event we are looking into the future!

To set the scene we’ve invited Michael Harries to come and present, here’s an overview of his talk:

The mobile internet is exciting today and continues to rapidly evolve – this talk will touch on some of the forces driving the phenomena today and tomorrow, ranging from the pragmatic - such as access to business applications with the Citrix receiver – and voice as the killer app, through to design, animism, and ultimately a new era of ambient devices.

Michael will be presenting at November Mobile Monday Sydney

Dr Michael Harries is Director of Strategy and Communications at Citrix Systems, CTO Office and Citrix Labs. As part of the Research and Development team, Dr Michael’s remit is to keep Citrix ahead of technological and market innovation. Within the CTO Office, Dr Michael acts as a technology futurist with broad interests across new computing technologies. In Citrix Labs, he steers research and investigation activities toward innovative new technologies and strategic entry to new markets. Michael holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and a Bachelor of Economics.

The second part of the evening will see some presentations by Augmented Reality companies.  We’ll find out what’s happening in this new field and hopefully get a demo or two.  We’ll post some more details over the next couple of days…

:: 6.30pm for 7pm start, Mon 2nd November 2009
:: Level 3 @ The Blacket Hotel
:: Entry on King Street via the Blacket Hotel. (Here’s a map)

MobileMonday Sydney is proud to announce that its nominee for the Global MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona 2009, Xumii, has reached the final shortlist of 20 out of a field of 42 nominees and 169 participating startups.

“This is a terrific result for an inspiring Australian-led mobile technology company, and doubly so considering this is the first time we’ve been involved in the Global MobileMonday Peer Awards!” said MobileMonday Sydney chapter co-founder Tim Parsons.

The MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards Barcelona is a gala global mobile innovation event attracting over 1000 attendees, held alongside the 3GSM World Mobile Congress event.

The full list of nominees is below :

About The Mobile Monday Peer Awards Barcelona 2009.

The MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards Barcelona are among the most influential events in the mobile industry and, with over 1000 attendants, the point of reference in startup innovation during the Mobile World Congress.

Now in its third year - the 2009 Peer Awards event is held alongside the 3GSM Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain on February 16th, 2009.

About Xumii

Xumii is the first social address book for mobile phones. With Xumii, users can socialize with any contact on any network, regardless of whether it is a social network, an instant messenger service or another mobile carrier. Based in Sydney, Australia, and San Mateo, California,  Xumii has received $5.5 million from CM Capital and Southern Cross Venture Partners.

:: 6.30pm for 7pm, Mon 1st September 2008
:: The Privilege Bar (part of the Blacket Hotel
:: Entry on George St., (corner George and King.) Map here.

Do you love or hate your mobile?
The second part of our series on Mobile Futures - this time focusing on what we all know to be true : user experience is absolutely vital to humanising technology.

At the very beginning of what may well come to be known as the era of multi-touch, we’re going to be examining some different aspects of the user experience with some of Australia’s stars in the field.

iPhone Usage Analysis
James Cleary from groundbreaking Australian mobile company Amethon will speak to this topic, presenting some of their analysis of iPhone usage.

Defining Perceived Value in Mobile Media
Mobile expert Mac Walker will be discussing a new model for understanding customer perceived value in mobile services, drawing on his years as a manager of 3G mobile portals.

Mobile User Experience
Finally, Sheen Yap - Head of User Experience and Creative Services at 3 Mobile will be talking about the critical elements of the user experience on mobile.

Bring your mobile !
Should be a fascinating night with plenty of real-world insights and lots of opportunities to meet new people, make personal and professional contacts, and be inspired. Come along and meet your peers in the Sydney mobile and wireless industry!

RSVP now, and to see how we roll checkout these pictures from last month’s show. See you there !

Mobile Monday Sydney is proud to be part of announcing mega - the mobile enterprise growth alliance - launching nationally starting this February 2008. The executive brief from the mega team follows below :

“Be a part of Australia’s Mobile Industry future

• Do you want in-depth knowledge about the mobile industry?
• Are you thinking of starting your own business?
• Would you like to expand your business to meet the growth of the mobile market?

The mega business incubator program will be held from February to June 2008 in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide with the direct participation of Australia’s leading mobile and digital content industry experts.

mega is a hands-on, industry-led program that supports creative, IT and business people to develop new companies, content and/or products for the mobile phone. Join as a team or as an individual (we’ll match you with individuals with complementary skills sets), develop your idea and then pitch it to a panel of telcos, broadcasters, angel investors and industry experts.

Want to get across mobile? Get into mega.

Attend our Call to Action event early Feb to find out more or visit: mega.org.au“

MoMoSydney applauds and wholeheartedly endorses this tremendous initiative, building on all the great work done in the widely-celebrated megaSA program. Well done and we can’t wait to see the first projects emerge !

Next Mobile Monday Sydney : on Monday 7th January 2008
:: 6.30pm for 7pm kickoff!
:: The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St
(corner of Market & Sussex streets)

“Web 2.0 goes mobile” with event sponsorship and 2 free drinks per person (thanks guys!) by

Mobile Monday Sydney is proud to announce our first event for 2008!

With Web 2.0, the era of participation has spawned a whole new generation of web-based communities and hosted services - from social-networking sites with embedded widgets and social applications to wikis and folksonomies - a set of meshing behaviours and technologies bringing a whole new meaning to the idea of people facilitating, collaborating and sharing.

Mobile services are also evolving in line with web 2.0 - and Forum Nokia wants to share their ideas with us about how the latest mobile applications and services are allowing users to connect and share on a whole new level. From advertising and infotainment, to gaming and user-generated multimedia content, come and “explore how the future of the mobile is set to change with this shift in user behaviour in 2008″.

Featuring

• Gary Chan, developer, technopreneur, product and brand manager, operator and now managing developer relationships and business development for Nokia Asia Pacific. Gary has first-hand experience in the ecosystem of creating and commercializing mobile products and services in his more than 10 years of experience in the telecommunications and Internet industries.

• and a panel of leading mobile development companies - stay tuned for more details.

Bring your mobiles and business cards, promises to be a great night! Click here to RSVP !

We’ve solved the comment-spam thing. Chocks away.

We’re looking forwards to your feedback in 2008!

Next Mobile Monday Sydney is on Monday 5th November 2007
:: 6.30pm for 7pm kickoff!
:: The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St
(corner of Market & Sussex streets)

Theme : M-Payments, with keynote & sponsorship by

…featuring a panel on the future of M-Payments with

• Dinuke Ranasinghe, Product Director at PayPal Australia;
• Harold Dimpel, Managing Director mHits Limited;
• Rob Manson, Co-Founder Paymentz;
• Hugh Spear, CEO Dialogue Communications

We’ll be discussing emerging opportunities in the space, as well as examining industry innovations such as the UK’s recently launched Payforit service, a payments platform supported by all major UK carriers.

Also featuring an interview with futurist Mark Pesce
“Mark Pesce, one of the early pioneers in Virtual Reality is a writer, researcher and teacher. The co-inventor of VRML, he is the author of five books and numerous papers on the future of technology.” - Wikipedia