The Mobile Marketing Association has just announced early registration for the Mobile Marketing Association Forum in Singapore. The event takes place Tuesday, May 3 at 9:00am – May 5 at 5:00pm at the Grand Hyatt Singapore, 10 Scotts Road.
Focused on “Consumers are mobile; are you?” the conference will deliver tangible ways for marketers to leverage mobile marketing and reach and engage the consumers that matter most to your brand. And we will demystify the latest technologies and platforms across the mobile ecosystem.
Click this link for all MMAF Singapore information. The MMAF Asia Pacific also has a Facebook Event Page.
Mobile takes center stage at the 2010 South By Southwest Festival Interactive Track, which runs March 12 through March 16 at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, USA. The following is a partial list of seminars and training on the schedule.
What’s Hot in Mobile at SXSW
- Maps 2010: How iPad Impacts the LBS Market
- The UX of Mobile
- Touch + The Holy Grail of Delight
- Organizational Pitfalls on the Path to Multichannel Experience
- Time + Social + Location. What’s Next In Mobile Experiences?
- Mobile – the Great Channel Equalizer
- iPad: New Opportunities for Content Creators
- The Real Mobile Scoop – Agency, Manufacturer, and Carrier
- Web Evolution: The Rise of Mobile, APIs and Runtimes
- Is App-vertising the Answer
- Augmenting Your Brain With Android
- Google Hackathon: Mobile Maps, App Engine, Chrome Extensions
- What If Your Phone Had Five Senses?
- Cross Device Accessibility: Is This For Real?
- Building Mobile Games on the Windows Phone Platform
- Mobile Computing and it’s Contribution to Technology’s Exponential Growth
- The Final (Mobile) Frontier: Battery Life in Africa
- How We Built the SXSW Mobile App
- Convergence 2010: Ten Cool Things That Could Happen This Year
- Mobile Development with the Flash Platform: iPhone and More
- Augmented Reality – Gimmicky Trend or Market-Ready Technology?
- Pass it Back! Kid Apps on Grown-up Devices
- Location Beyond iPhone: Locating 100+M Phones
- Location-Based Marketing and Advertising: Targeting the Mobile Consumer
- Mobile Content is Social
- Mobile Advertising in 2010: How to Pay the Bills
- QR Codes and 2D Barcodes: Bridging Physical & Digital
- Mobile Commerce
- Mapping and Geolocation: Turnkey Approaches You Need to Know
The full SXSW Mobile schedule (may not be viewable on some phones) includes information on presenters and a summary of what each session will cover.
While you’re there, check out the updated SXSW.mobi site for mobile access to the South by Southwest Festival.
It’s Mobile Brain Bank time again in Finland.
Here’s the invitation from Petra and Peter:
Hi all,
Mobile Brain Bank and
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society are connecting at
Slush Helsinki. Read more on this in
news on our website. As a member of the Mobile Brain Bank network, you are warmly invited to take part in Slush. If you are running a brand new startup, we believe you will especially benefit from Startup Talkoot on the second day. This is your invite.
Cold. Dark. Slush on the ground.
This is the setting for the Slush Talkoot, a great opportunity for
MOBB members to discover what is going on in the startup ecosystem in
the region. At talkoot you will meet some companies that you have
never heard of, but there’s a good chance that you will in the future.
And maybe you will be part of the reason that the world will hear
about these current unknowns. The opportunity to change the world that
you have been waiting for all these years. You probably hadn’t heard
about Linux, MySQL, maybe not even about Nokia 10-15 years ago. At the
Slush Talkoot you might discover the future big thing.
Talkoot is a good old Finnish tradition of working together, you will
not get paid, but you might be offered some beer and barbeque in
return for your efforts. And of course sauna. All of which you will
find at Slush as well. And as said, you might discover the next big
thing and decide to join the ride. A little like joining Nokia in
1992;-)
Besides the cool new startups in the Slush, you can also listen in on
some interesting presentations by people like Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia,
Andreas Weigend, ex-chief scientist for Jeff Bezos/Amazon, Risto
Siilasmaa and many others. A great learning experience to be expected.
See you in the Slush!
Kind regards,
Peter and Petra
***
Mobile Brain Bank is a network of mobile experts who have left the corporate life behind them, or are thinking about a renewal in their professional life. In Finland alone, thousands of mobile experts have recently freed themselves to be able to plan new products, services, innovations, or any other type of startup activity. Mobile Brain Bank offers a forum for testing your ideas, business case, or just to network with people who are in a similar situation.
It’s estimated that over 10,000 people have been made redundant (now unemployed) since January in the mobile sector in Finland alone. An enterprising group of professionals has decided to do something about it. Mobile Brain Bank (MoBB) began as a group on LinkedIn (computer/iphone link) (mobile link). The group is not limited to Finland.
According to MoBB member Petra Söderling (Nokia) of Petra’s Blog,
With both online discussions, and real life meetings, people looking for jobs are linked to those who offer jobs. MoBB is not just limited to small startups and job seekers. Also people from established companies have joined the group (e.g. Nokia&NSN, Frost & Sullivan, Tieto, Elcoteq, Ericsson, EB (Electrobit), Accenture etc.) With good progress, also the startups that are now forming will be able to hire soon.
The first meeting of Mobile Brain Bank (MoBB) in Helsinki in the Havel cabinet at restaurant Vltava on Thursday, August 13th from 6 pm to 8 pm. Address ELIELINAUKIO 2 00100 HELSINKI.
On Twitter, you can follow MoBB with the #MoBB hashtag or @MobileBrainBank username. You can follow Petra on Twitter as @PetraHelsinki. Mobile Brain Bank also has a website at MobileBrainBank.org (computer/iphone link only).
Microsoft evangelists are getting more involved with the mobile developer community by organizing the first Windows Mobile Developer Camp event. It’s scheduled for August 19 in Redmond, Washington at the Microsoft Campus. WinMoDevCamp is a series of upcoming free, not-for-profit gatherings to develop applications for the upcoming release of the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 O/S. The event is currently being planned in seven cities around the world.
This event is not directly associated with Microsoft, however, the organizers say they are getting support from them in this effort, and it is being hosted at the Microsoft campus. WinMoDevCamp is driven by private individuals that are simply interested in developing applications on and growing the community around the new Microsoft Windows 6.5 platform. Giovanni Gallucci and Jennifer Conley are the organizers of WinMoDevCamp.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time at one of the Microsoft regional offices learning about product launches and other training. If they are sending trainers, trust me, you’ll want to be there. Hey, Giovanni and Jennifer — consider this my request for an invitation to a San Diego MoDevCamp if that city is chosen (it hasn’t been yet), which is home to Qualcomm and a substantial Nokia facility.
According to organizer Giovanni Gallucci, Microsoft is
“sending members from the Windows Mobile Developer Team to each event. Telligent has stepped up to provide the social platform that we will use to host our new community and, FireHost is providing hosting on the site that we are currently building. We already have over 7 cities confirmed for the event with the expectation of having several cities participating in the event itself via live streaming from their physical locations. We will host separate events in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Austin, London, Singapore, and Toronto. The first event will be in Seattle on August 19, 2009. With three weeks until the event, we are almost “sold out” for the first event.
The soon-to-be-released MoDevCamp website will have facilities for local events to organize as well.
MoDevCamp Dates
- Seattle on 8/19
Venue: Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington in the Cascade Auditorium
- Dates will soon be
announced for the following additional locations: Austin, London, New York, San
Francisco, Toronto, and Singapore.
- Microsoft’s MoDevCamp organizers encourage mobile developers to host their own events on the same dates.
Register for Microsoft MoDevCamp
Registration: Eventbright will be utilized so that registrations are broken down by
city. Contact the MoDevCamp coordinators (giovanni [at] gallucci.net) to set up your city for an event so they can provide you with the necessary registration pages and subdomain on the (not-yet-live) website.
The events are inspired by BarCamp, SuperHappyDevHouse, and MacHack, and the original
iPhoneDevCamp to develop applications (local and web based) for mobile devices that
run the Windows Mobile 6.5 Operating System.
According to Microsoft, attendees will include mobile developers, web developers, .Net Developers, UI designers, and testers, all working together. Development projects will include both
solo and team efforts. While some attendees will wish to work solo during the event, the MoDevCamp coordinators encourage attendees to team up, based on expertise, to work in ad-hoc project development teams. All attendees should be prepared to work on a development project during the event.
Microsoft MoDevCamp Attendees will:
- Create new applications for the Windows Mobile Platform.
- Meet and work side-by-side with team members from the Microsoft Mobile
Developer Experience team.
- Migrate existing mobile applications from the iPhone, Blackberry and Palm Pre
to the Windows Mobile Platform.
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Create applications to support Windows Enterprise Applications.
- Test and optimize applications for Windows Mobile 6.5.
This blog entry is part of Carnival of the Mobilists (computer link), a weekly roundup of mobile blog posts.
Not for profit organizations and others interested in mobile website development are invited to Bar Camp San Francisco on November 4, 2008 (location to be announced). Unlike traditional conferences, Bar Camp participants are also expected to present, either formally or informally. Often, Bar Camp is an overnight stay where “campers” bring sleeping bags and pillows; however this is expected to be a single-day event.
The San Francisco Bar Camp is in the initial planning stages, and volunteers are welcome. Proposed topics include:
- Using mobiles in fundraising
- Mobile campaigning on a grassroots budget
- Who are the best vendors for nonprofits?
- Android, iPhone oh my — can I do my own mobile app for change?
To volunteer, please contact jeffs@it.rit.edu or katrin@mobileactive.org. More details are available at the BarCamp San Francisco Wiki Computer Link Mobile Link (transcoded)
Entries are now being accepted for the ILoveMobileWeb Awards(Computer Link). The ILoveMobileWeb Award is open only to websites that have been fully developed on a .mobi domain name. Sites that have a .mobi address that redirect to any other TLD are not eligible to participate. This is an industry award by the dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG), which was created to assist the development of the new TLD, or top level domain, in the .mobi namespace.
Categories for the award include: Corporate, Entertainment, Information, Travel, Commerce & Retail, and Social Networking. The deadline to submit sites is August 22, 2008. Good luck to all entrants.
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