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3rd May - Mobile Monday: Mobile Eye-tracking and Geo-Tagging!

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

:: 6.30pm for 7pm start, Mon 3rd May 2010
:: Kent Street Living Room, Level 1, The City Hotel (
www.cityhotel.com.au)
:: Entry on King Street corner Kent Street.

It’s the start of Q2 2010…where did time go???

Here at Mobile Monday Sydney, we’re always on the look out for the latest innovations and news in the mobile space.  So for the month of May we’ve got:

Mobile Eye-tracking
With a worldwide increase in the number of mobile devices, interest in eye‐tracking studies on these devices has also increased. Eye tracking can provide valuable information on a number of areas, such as how well a graphical interface works, where on a physical device the user looks for certain options (such as buttons) and how the user’s attention shifts between the different parts of the phone when interacting with it.

Tobii Technology and Objective Digital have brought out Jon Ward, from Acuity-ETS in the UK, to Australia to run a series of eye tracking seminars. This evening will give you an introduction on how to eye track mobile devices!

Objective Technology is the Australian reseller for Tobii Eye Tracking hardware and software.  www.ObjectiveDigital.com

Geo-Tagging Case Studies
We see the return of Nick Gonios, Commercial Director of Insqribe.  Nick will be presenting a high level overview of geo-location/ geo-tagging and case studies on how this has been rolled out in different parts of the world.

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Feb 09 Wrapup

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

The atmosphere was electric (and the temperature hot) at a passionate Mobile Monday Sydney this last Monday gone - with mobile video romance thanks to Meet Me, and with 2009 Mobile Predictions from the MoMo team, the audience and Mobile Online Business‘ excellent live survey tools.

Tim Parsons of Mobile Monday Sydney talking to Melanie Bowman from Meet Me.
(Note: the exceptional product animations were created by Gravity Media - great work Tristan !)

Tim Parsons’ 2009 Mobile Predictions on slideshare.com
Mobile Online Business’ metrics on audience phones and survey access methods. “63 out of the 80-strong audience participated (80%) via SMS, URL and QR Code entry points and by far the majority of people joined in using SMS (57%).

“Telstra (38%), closely followed by Optus (36%) were the dominant network providers, with Three (15%) and Voda (11%) trailing behind.

“Nokia is still the dominant manufacturer (51%) with the iPhone quickly catching up behind (34%). Interestingly, Blackberry was only a very small share (9%).

“And on the browser front Safari completely dominates (66%) due to the popularity of both iPhones and Symbian devices.”

CLICK HERE to see the survey results and read Rob Manson’s in-depth analysis. ** Stay tuned for an update with the full 2009 predictions survey results shortly **

Melanie Bowman from Meet Me presenting the Lucky Door Prize to Bob Hitching from Xumii - congrats Bob!
Thanks to Ross Dawson of the Future Exploration Network for the fabulous prize of a pass to the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum on 24th February, 2009 at Luna Park, North Sydney.
Until next time (on the 2nd of March) !