Month: June 2011

MLOVE 2011

On 15/06/2011

Only two weeks or so, and we’ll be off. One of the most exciting (well, correct that: the most exciting) mobile events of the year will kick off, namely MLOVE. Hosted in a proper medieval German castle, it boasts an incredible line-up of holistic mobile thinkers and tinkerers and all the ingredients to “change your life” (quote some of the participants of previous iterations!).

So here’s the speaker line-up:

Grammy-winning musician and multi-platform entrepreneur Chamillionaire;
Yuri van Geest, the man behind Trend8;
Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor of Wired (!);
Russell Buckley, employee #1 at AdMob (and a ton of other things!);
Kei Shimada, one of Japan’s premier wireless ambassadors;
Jason Collins, Alcatel-Lucent’s VP of Emerging Technology and Innovation (and one of those awesome uber-smart people);
Daniel Graf of Google’s Mobile Apps Labs fame;
Jean Schmitt, one of France’s smartest investors (and with JolTech and powerhouse Sofinnova);
Rovio’s Mighty Eagle, Peter Vesterbacka (how angry can your bird get?);
Thorsten Dirks, CEO of E-Plus
Beverly Jackson, the Director Marketing & Social Media of the Grammy Awards;
plus leaders from Volkswagen, OgilvyOne, leaders in education, philosphers, bloggers, the CEO of Butterfly Corp, Dentsu (Japan’s #1 ad agency), Contagious and the indomitable Corvida Raven (of SheGeeks) and Jonathan MacDonald (of This Fluid World), composers, DJs, and, last but not least Adele Waugaman, the UN Foundation’s Sr. Director for their Technology Partnership.

We will also run a Teen Camp for the generation that really matters, which is run in conjunction with the Hasso Plattner (he of SAP fame) Institute, which I have the great honour to co-curate together with 16-year-old Tony Neidhardt (who – despite her tender age – is already a veteran in the scene!) and Jane Mason.

In one (well, few) word(s): it will be absolutely awesome!

If you feel inclined to join (and you really, really, really should!!!), check in here.

Carnival of the Mobilists # 249

By Volker

On 02/06/2011

In Carnival of the Mobilists

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Remember one of the most wonderful resources for mobile bloggers? yes, it is the Carnival of the Mobilists and this month’s version is live now! It is a best of digest of May’s mobile-related blogs. This month, there are some real goodies! You will find:

GoSub60’s Sean Thompson musing the question of whether to “go free”;
James Coops from MobyAffiliates looking at the commercial opportunities of – you may have guessed – mobile affiliate marketing;
Mobile marketing veteran Russell Buckley looks at mobile couponing as the next billion dollar market (mobile Groupon anyone?);
Industry thinker and Futuretext founder Ajit Jaokar looking at whether the “two-sided market” model may not actually apply to carriers (and I tend to agree; here’s another blog post… ;-));
Our very own Peggy Anne Salz of MobileGroove (f/k/a MSearchGroove) focuses on marketing to digital natives;
The Fonecast’s James Rosewell makes a case for Microsoft to buy Nokia (the rumour of which has just been refuted by Mr Elop himself though);
Dennis Bournique of the WAP Review looks at where MeeGo is at these days;
Richard Monson-Haefel looks at “omni-mobility”; and
finally, my own bit on the evolving role of publishers also found a mention.

Go now and read it over here on Francisco Kattan’s blog and have a great time! 🙂

Oh, and if you want to be part of this, make sure to look up the Carnival online and follow them on Twitter (@COTMobilists).

Conference: Mobile 2.0 Europe – Open Ideas (Barcelona)

By Volker

On 02/06/2011

In Events

The ever industrious Rudy de Waele and his team are staging the next version of Mobile 2.0 Europe in beautiful Barclona on 16/17 June 2011. Last year’s version was awesome but this year they seem to have upped the ante significantly again. Staged in Telefonica’s mindblowing R&D centre Diagonal 00 (just look at the picture, for heaven’s sake!) and boasting a speaker line-up that should everybody get going!

It’s a developer conference, so none (or little) of the usual preaching but you will get more hands-on workshops on everything from app store marketing to HTML5 development. And all this in summery Barcelona! Go on, sign up here!

And if all that is not enough, here’s a selection of the people that will speak with you, work with you, talk to you (a full speaker list is here):

Peter Vesterbacka, Rovio (yes, he, the Mighty Eagle of the “Angry Birds” guys)
Daniel Gurrola, Orange
Sanyu Kirulata, Blackberry
Reimund Schmaid, Nuance
Carlos Domingo, Telefonica I+D
Jose Valles, BlueVia (Telefonica)
Lucas Allen Buick, Synthetic (they of “Hipstamatic” fame)
Matthias Sala, Gbanga
Andy Goodman, Fjord
Caroline Drucker, Soundcloud
Vincent Hoogsteder, Distimo
Andreas Constantinou, Vision Mobile
Tom Hume, Future Platforms
John Roberts, Quostodian
Yes, and yours truly will also be there 🙂

See you in the sun very soon! 🙂