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:

• First up, from Paris, France, we’re very happy to welcome Special Guest Keynote presenter Antoine Quint, who will be demonstrating live services based on the rich-vector-media standard, Mobile SVG – a talk he’s given both in Paris and last month in MoMoNY. Antoine is an expert in SVG, with experience consulting for companies such as Adobe, Vodafone, and Ikivo, and a job working as a senior software architect for Skype’s VoD/IPTV baby Joost since early 2006.

• Following Antoine, Oliver Weidlich from Mobile Monday Sydney and The Australian Mobile Lifestyle Index will be presenting the winning 2007 Global Mobile Peer Awards Entries from the Mobile Monday event at 3GSM world in Barcelona (see our summary posting below).

• Finally, Tim Parsons from Mobile Monday Sydney will be offering visitors the chance to download films from Hollywoord producers via the Sundance Global Short Film project, via using a Bluetooth BlueZone kindly supplied by Adam Dunne of Aura Interactive.

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

SpeedAlert

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.

We had another great Mobile Monday Sydney at The Shelbourne Hotel last night. Great to see so many new faces and a huge thanks to those of you that passed around the invitation to others, we really appreciate your support.

Cyrus Allen of Telstra & Will Sheriden & co of Who’s In The House (www.wiith.com.au) did a great job of doing live demos and we thank them for taking time out to join us.

Some photos from the night.

Mobile Monday Sydney - Demo Night
:: Monday October 9th 2006
:: 6.30pm for 7pm kickoff
:: The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St
(corner of Market & Sussex streets)

The event will feature two exciting live demonstrations of new mobile services soon to be launched by:-

presented by Cyrus Allen, GM Customer Experience at Telstra

and

presented by Will Sheridan, Business & Products, Palantir Global

RSVP here!

Promises to be fascinating, new, mobile and audience-interactive. We look forwards to seeing you there.

Thanks to all who came to our launch event, and especially our guests - Terry, Mei Lin, Oliver and Jennifer.

Photos taken by Debra Symons of Alcatel from the event (thanks Deb, nice work!). You can also find these on our flickr slideshow at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobilemondaysydney, (thanks Oliver!).

It was a fantastic night with almost 100 participants. Key insights on barriers to innovation and market entry:-

• Australia is a small market; if you’re going to innovate, try to add an international dimension. (Terry)
• If at first you don’t succeed, change everything and try again (Mei Lin)
• Research shows the industry isn’t educating consumers enough - so we really need an education campaign (Oliver)
• Investors are still wary of Mobile, even for companies with a long established track-records like HWW (Jennifer).

Thanks guys !