Another great night at MoMoSyd last evening and a stellar performance by our Mobile Games panel.
Our sponsor for the evening was Txt4it! and thanks to Nina & John for their gracious support of May’s event.
TXT4IT™
April’s event was quite a watershed event for Mobile Monday Sydney - sponsors, multiple laptop switching, a phone camera used for both presentations, free food + drink . . . if you missed it you missed out !
Our biggest turnout yet, 90 people, saw My247.com.au’s launch of their new my247.mobi portal (coincidentally on the 2/4/07). Congratulations to Andrew, ace presenter Chris, and the whole my247.com.au team for a flawless demo - and indeed for producing a very useful & effective mobile service. It will definitely be interesting to see similar off-deck offerings come to light, especially given the gist of the presentation that followed…
As expected, 3’s X-series generated a lot of excitement and interest, with as much as 2Gb of data/month for A$40 an historic level of bang-for-buck for any Australian mobile wireless data access service. The general consensus was - where can I get one ! That plus phones bundled with Skype - and a genuine committment to the broader mobile internet business model (according to the charming Mira Bashi), left a lot of people with a whole new perspective on the future of mobile. At last, we can glimpse the post-walled-garden world.
We all had speed-lines around us by the end of the evening, thanks in no small part to the generosity of event sponsors my247.com.au who supplied the first 50 drinks and food for all. Thanks guys!
Come and join the créme of the Sydney mobile community - at our next event! Register here for event announcements.
Thanks to Frontier Solutions & Strategies and company founder Paul Hughes, we’re now going to be able to use this baby, the Project-a-Phone ICD-5000 to project live images from handset screens on to a laptop screen, and from there to the main presentation screen :
FSS has also very generously extended a discount on this and all other telephony-related products to Mobile Monday Sydney members - just contact Frontier via the details on this contact page and mention your membership of MoMoSyd at the time of ordering.
Thanks Paul !
Another great night with just over 60 people in attendance.
Our co-host Tim couldn’t make it on the night as his wife Karen has just recently had a new baby girl! Congratulations to both of you mate!
Thanks to our speakers for the evening!
Antoine Quint of Joost
Adam Dunne of Aura Interactive
Oliver Weidlich of Ideal Interfaces
We also had the lovely Nandini Ramani (nandini.ramani at sun.com) of Sun Microsystems came along with Antoine Quint and demonstrated some of the great work Sun is doing around SVG. Nandini is the co-chair of the SVG work group in the US too. Thank for dropping in Nandini!
Some photos of the night….
Mobile SVG, MoMo Global Peer Awards and Sundance on Mobile
:: Monday 5th March 2007)
:: 6.30pm for 7pm kickoff!
:: The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St
(corner of Market & Sussex streets)
The Night’s Programme:
A fun-packed evening especially for film-makers and interactive content specialists, bring your business cards !
The MobileMonday Global Peer Awards 2007 took place during the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, with the winners announced on Feb 13th. (This is an edited precis of the full text & information - to found here).
The Audience Award went to a Swiss LBS application called Plazes. The Plazes service adds physical presence to the web. The Plazes Website automatically detects your location and connects you to people and places nearby.
The jury’s favorite was a French 3D application that can scan and manipulate real life hand written text. The winner, RealEyes3D, operates at two levels: It runs a mobile copy service for camera phone users, www.qipit.com and sells “handwritten messaging” applications to handset vendors.
Community Award went to an American company Mobile Complete. It offers solutions to manage the user experience throughout the life-cycle of mobile applications, services, and handsets.
MobileMonday believes the industry should take the time to get to know these finalists as we are certain they will be among those making important waves within the mobile industry over the next few years.
Here are the all 2007 MobileMonday Global Peer Awards finalists - congratulations to all:
Bangalore - mChek - http://www.mchek.com
Barcelona - MyStrands - http://www.mystrands.com
Beijing - Silk Road Telecommunication - http://www.srt.com.cn/en/
Boston - Skyhook Wireless - http://www.loki.com/
Brussels - Ontrack Navigation - http://www.ontracknavigation.com/
Delhi - Wirkle - http://www.wirkle.com/
Geneva - Plazes - http://www.plazes.com/
Helsinki - UpCode - http://www.upcode.fi/
Italy - Barefoot Software - http://www.barefootsoft.com/
London - Reporo - http://www.reporo.com/
Melbourne - Locatrix - http://www.locatrix.com/
Paris - Realeyes3D - http://www.realeyes3d.com/
Silicon Valley - Mobile Complete - http://www.mobilecomplete.com/
Singapore - Tagit - http://tagit.tv/
Shanghai - mInfo - http://www.minfo.com/en/aboutus/intro.aspx/
St Petersburg - Jamango - http://www.jamango.com/
Tokyo - Naviblog - http://www.naviblog.jp/
Ukraine - Nival Online - http://www.nivalonline.com/
Vancouver - RX Networks - http://www.rxnetworks.ca/
Washington, DC - Rave Wireless - http://www.ravewireless.com/
Mobile Monday Sydney
:: Tonight ! (Monday 5th February 2007)
:: 6.30pm for 7pm kickoff!
:: The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St
(corner of Market & Sussex streets)
Come along and join us for the first Mobile Monday Sydney for 007!
Brought to you by our sponsor tonight,
Optus!
Tonight we have 2 great mobile applications being demonstrated,
Mobile & online business paymentz
AND
Look forward to seeing you there!
Happy New Year from all of us here at Mobile Monday Sydney!
There is going to be a lot of new exciting stuff to do in 2007 with exciting events to attend, new gadgets to play with, cool technology to drool over and lots of wonderful & interesting people to meet.
Mobile Monday Sydney is gearing up for our first event this year on Monday night 5th February at the Shelbourne Hotel, so we hope to meet everyone there to welcome in the year of 007.
Big thank you to Jennifer Wilson of HWW & Roy Hill of Mapshed for their great live demos. It was another intriguing evening at the Shellbourne Hotel with huge interest in what it takes to get a mobile product or service across the line into the haloed walled gardens of telcos.
The event ended well into the evening again with some of the group heading out for a bite to eat afterwards.
Some photos from the night and thanks to Debra Symons of Alcatel for taking the shots.
Next Event
:: Monday November 6th 2006
:: 6.30pm for 7pm kickoff
:: The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St
(corner of Market & Sussex streets)
This month, we’re showcasing working, profitable and growing mobile content businesses.
We’re delighted to be welcoming two of Australia’s pioneers in mobile content and services, companies led by visionary people who are making a profit and creating powerful end-user value on 2.5 and 3G mobile networks:
presented by Jennifer Wilson, Managing Director at HWW Pty Ltd (welcome back Jennifer!)
presented by Roy Hill, Principal Mapshed Spatial webservices.
Learn from the pioneers. What’s the secret of their ongoing success ? How did they get started ? What are their plans for the future? [Can Mobile Monday help them take on the World ?!]
Reserve your place, click here to RSVP.
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