Conference: Mobile 2.0 Europe, Barcelona

On 04/06/2010, in 1, by Volker

On 17 June, a wonderful conference opens its doors: organized by the formidable Rudy de Waele and his team, the beautiful city of Barcelona (but without the usual Mobile World Congress stress and with better weather than in February!) is host to Mobile 2.0 Europe.

You will find a great line-up of speakers from across the mobile ecosystem, which should allow for a wonderfully balanced overview of what’s going on. The organizers have lined up senior guys from the giants of the industry, such as:

  • Nokia
  • RIM
  • Vodafone
  • Opera
  • Telefonica
  • Orange
  • PayPal Mobile
  • Microsoft

But they then coupled them with the nimble and agile guys like us, so you will also find:

  • Distimo (analytics)
  • Scoreloop (yes, I will be speaking)
  • The Astonishing Tribe (UI experts)
  • W3C
  • Future Platforms
  • and more…

As if this wasn’t enough, the AppCircus will also stop at the event with an on-stage show of the best and brightest apps around.

Join us, it should be tremendous fun! The registration page is here.

Blackberry App World Gets a Pal

On 06/03/2009, in Uncategorized, by Volker

Blackberry Maker RIM launched a holding site ahead of the launch of its Blackberry App World (the equivalent to Apple’s AppStore), and it had a little surprise in hand: billing appears to be handled via PayPal (the fine print does not need translation: “to be able to purchase applications from BlackBerry App World, a PayPal Account is required”).

This is two things: a) a massive win for PayPal and b) and nice move from Blackberry because PayPal is one of the simpler mechanisms, which will feel, like, so totally easy to many users (everyone who has tried to download applications and pay via credit card on their Blackberry will know how onerous it is/was).
I am thrilled to see this coming on. Apple has had 9 months free reign, and it’s about time that its competitors step up and bring commercial stores out. Blackberry will be fantastically suited as – due to e-mail having been its central USP – its users traditionally are on data plans anyway, and will therefore be less reluctant to dig in properly.
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