MoMo London Explores "Voice 2.0"

Speakers Marcus Taylor from Erlang Consulting, Simon Crowfoot from Spinvox, Ian Wood from Wireless Foundry and Christian Lindholm from Fjord debated the future of voice services at last night's Mobile Monday London event. We also had a great demo from Howler Tech's Jay Fenton of the ROKTALK conferencing application.



Thanks to all participants and attendees for a great last event of the year. Thanks also to our generous sponsor for the evening, Erlang Consulting! See you all in the new year when we'll be putting together some new themes and speakers. The coming year is going to be big for Mobile and big for Mobile Monday.

Mobile Monday London - Voice 2.0 - December 3rd

December sees Mobile Monday London visit a topic we have been promising for a while, something often over looked, the future of voice based applications and services. The event has been kindly sponsored by Erlang Consulting and as always takes place on Monday night, doors open at 6pm with speakers from Wireless Foundary, Spinvox and Fring. The event will be taking place in the CBI (base of Centre Point by Tottenham Court Road tube).

To attend the event, first register with our Yahoo Group, then you can add yourself onto the attendee list for the event.

12th November event - Ad Funded Mobile Services

Its now November, autumn is open us and the next Monday the Mobile Monday London event, kindly sponsored by the folks at AdMob will be on the theme of Ad Funded Mobile Services. The event is to be held at Imperial College, if you want to come along, you will need to register with our Yahoo group, before adding yourself into the database for the 12th of November. It is also our 2nd Birthday (my how time flies) and we hope many of you can make it along to help us celebrate.

MoMo London October 8th - Mobile Web Revisited

We've had really good feedback for last Monday's event.

In advance of getting the Podcast on line, and in response to various requests for copies of them, here are the various speaker's presentations:

Philipp Hoschka (W3C) (HTML)

Mark Curtis (Flirtomatic) (PPT 1.2MB)

Ed Moore (Openwave) (PPT 1.2 MB)

Andrea Trasatti (dotMobi) (PPT 2.5MB)

Scott Beaumont (Mippin) (PPT 150kB)

Mobile Monday London 8th Oct at Centre Point

Kindly hosted by the W3C Mobile Web Initiative (http://www.w3.org/Mobile), with
support from IST European Project 3GWeb (http://www.w3.org/2006/3GWeb/).

It will explore the current state of the Mobile Web; this will be more than
just a comprehensive update from last year's event - which was on the theme
of "Will the real mobile Web please step forward?"

Since then, the real mobile Web has actually stepped forward. Things have
changed over the last year, with the standards for mobile maturing, real
business models emerging, and not least a passionate debate about the role
and place of transcoding and adaptation in helping mobile users enjoy an
experience of Web sites that were not designed with mobile in mind.

Philipp Hoschka, Deputy Director of the W3C will be presenting on how the
standards landscape has developed to support people who wish to present a
customised mobile user experience.

Ed Moore, from Openwave and previously from Wider Web, will explore
transcoding and adaptation technologies that bring a mobile experience from
sites that do not natively do so.

Mark Curtis of Flirtomatic will explain how they have found their way though
the mobile user experience jungle and are now developing revenue streams
from mobile, hopefully to answer the question: why should I care anyway?

We will also have demonstrations from dotMobi of their tools to help
developers provide mobile user experiences and from Mippin of their
technology for making the mobile Web more of a reality.

If you're interested in the mobile Web, its technology, how to find a
business model, and generally why to care about it at all, this will be the
event for you!

We'll be opening registrations in the time-honoured fashion during the week
of October 1st. So keep an eye out on the list for registration information.

[Update: Sorry this event is full up]

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Jo

Hej and a distant welcome from the Mobile Monday Global Summit. I am sat here in the press area with Dan Appelquist representing the London chapter of Mobile Monday. The doors have opened and Jari Tammisto of Helsinki and Global went through a keynotes where we have all introduced ourselves, representitives from 24 chapters of the 50 global Mobile Monday chapters. Today will be an interesting day ahead, Dan is to be on a panel and we will post some updates when we have some more information.

Mobile Monday Global Summit

All eyes will turn to Helsinki on the 10th of September for the 3rd annual Mobile Monday Global Summit. This is a global event like no other, with mobile industry business and technology thought-leaders as well as representatives from Mobile Monday chapters around the world.

Last nights Mobile Identity event at Sun

It was good to be back at Sun's offices again, this time all the talk was around Mobile Identity. The podcast will be available soon of the event. The panel could have discussed the topic throughout the night but we had to break out for networking and drinks. As always our discussion board is a good place to discuss ideas and thoughts on the subject, as is the mobile area on the Identity Society's wiki. Watch this space for details of our next event.

August Event: Mobile Digital Identity

We can now confirm the August MoMo London event will be themed on Mobile Digital Identity. The event will be held on the Monday 6th August, doors open at 6pm with the event kicking off at 6.30pm as always. The event is being co-organised along with The Identity Society and will kindly be hosted at Sun's offices followed by networking over drinks. Directions are as follows ...

Sun Microsystems
Regis House
45 King William Street
London
EC4R 9AN

We have a great set of speakers (including Dave Birch from Consult Hyperion and Janko Mrsic-Flogel from Imperial College Internet Centre) followed by an open panel discussion to be chaired by Luke Razzell from i-together, so please come along armed with some questions.

Registration is now open! (You must be a member of the Mobile Monday London mailing list to register.)

Mobile Monday Mini-Event Tonight!

As announced, we will be holding a "mixer only" (no speakers, just drinks and networking) event tonight at Floridita (100 Wardour Street, W1F 0TN) starting at 6:00. This will be a "first come, first served" event – we will not be running a guest list as usual. There will be a special part of the bar for the Mobile Monday London event, kindly sponsored by GreyStripe.

July 9th: Networking-Only Event

For those of you wondering what we're doing in July: we're going to be holding a smaller "networking-only" event on July 9th. Location to be determined. See back here and on the mailing list for details.

Also mark your calendars for August 6th when we'll be running a full-fledged event on Mobile Digital Identity in partnership with the Identity Society.

Tonight's Event

A reminder that tonight's event, kindly sponsored by Symbian, is at the CBI Conference Centre at Centre point, doors open at 6.00 pm for a 6.30 start. Presentations are from IdeaWorks3D, Great Ape, NVidia, Motorola, SynchroArts and Mobile Distillery.

Podcast for Mobile Widgets Event Posted

The video (and audio) podcast of our Mobile Widgets event on May 14th is now available for download. If you missed this great event, download it now to delve into this exciting new area of phone UI and hear from Qualcomm, Frog Design, Nokia, Opera and others on this topic.

Next Mobile Monday London: June 11th

Mark your calendars! Our next meeting will be 11 June at the CBI Conference centre at Centrepoint Tower. The theme will be mobile games and our very special sponsor for the evening will be Symbian! More information, as well as registration instructions, will be posted to the mailing list soon.

Mobile Widgets kicked off Widget Week

Widget week kicked off on Monday with a packed house and a packed speaker list for 'Mobile Widgets'. Thanks to all of the speakers on the night:

Vodafone - David Pollington
Qualcomm - Anwar Ahmed
Frog Design - Cees van Dok
Nokia - Ganesh Sivaraman
Opera - Charles McCathieNevile
Webwag - Florent Pitoun
Bango - Ray Anderson
Widsets - Kaj HeGe Häggman

Huge thanks to Qualcomm for hosting the event and putting on great drinks and hot snacks, I am sure everyone enjoyed 'the hospitality at The Hospital'.

Next Event: Mobile Widgets on May 14th

The date is set for our next event, focusing on mobile widgets and widget-like UI, on the 14h of May. We're also proud to announce that this event will be part of Widget Week 2007, a coordinated series of events on widgets from Mobile Monday London, Chinwag Live and Beers and Innovation. Our sponsor for the evening will be Qualcomm! Check back here or on the mailing list for details.

Think you know Location? Think again.

We had another great event this month on Location based services on hand to present were Seeker Wireless and Locomatrix exploring different facets of location based service services evolution. We also featured great demos from Buddyping, SportsDo, Trackaphone and M-Spatial (who demoed at our first demo night event last April). All in all, a great night with some exciting and sometimes surprising demonstrations and information. Did you miss it? Watch for the podcast, coming soon!

Thanks again to all our speakers and demoers and also to our "mystery sponsor" for the evening!

Registration is now open for our next meeting, on the 16^th of April, at the CBI conference centre at Centrepoint.

The theme for the evening will be 'Location Location Location!' We're featuring presentations from Plazes, Seeker Wireless and Locomatrix as well as a number of demos from companies bringing location based services to market including Buddyping and SportsDo.

If you wish to attend, please register yourselves in our database. NB: Please join the mailing list first if you are not already a member in order to gain access to the registration form.

Meffys Approaching

The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) will be running another "Meffys" awards on the 5^th of June in Monte Carlo. The awards span a number of categories of mobile application and services including search & discovery, content, game sand "innovative new business model."

Another succesful demo night at MoMoLondon

Well, monday night another MoMoLondon demo night went off smoothly. The podcasts will be available online soon for download. A huge thanks must go out to City University for providing the facilities and Trolltech for sponsoring the event and providing refreshments. We are keen to read your comments on all of our events, please email them to one of the organisers stuart/mobilemonday.org.uk, alex/mobilemonday.org.uk, jo/mobilemonday.org.uk, dan/mobilemonday.org.uk and paul/mobilemonday.org.uk.

Mobile Monday London - March 12th Event - Demo Night

Its nearly upon us, Demo Night is back at Mobile Monday London on March 12th. Huge thanks to Trolltech for sponsoring the event and City University for the huge venue. We can now confirm the list of companies demoing on monday are (in alphabetical order) ...

• Adobe
• Ambiesense
• Barefoot
• Vodafone Betavine
• d2see
• Favourite Systems
• Mobyko
• Monitise
• Oystar
• Tomato
• Trolltech

As always, to register for the event you will also need to be a member in our Yahoo! group (which is free to join), and then add yourself into the March event database for the event.

Thanks

MoMoLondon

February Podcast Now Available

The podcast (in mp3 audio and Quicktime and 3GPP video formats) of our last event on Mobile Search is now available for download. See what our speakers had to say on this important topic!

February at the BBC: Mobile Search

Mobile Monday London - February at the BBC
Originally uploaded by Craxton.

Another great Mobile Monday London on a very hot topic.

Thanks so much to our gracious hosts, the BBC, and to our speakers: Nic Newman of the Beeb, Martin Wilson from Yell, Steve Ives fromTaptu
and Claudia Poepperl, Mobile People. Thanks also to our demoers, Kimmo Passo of MCN and Priya Prakash of BBC. Finally, thanks to our attendees who made the Q&A session so lively!

If you couldn't make it, watch out for the podcast, coming soon!

Mobile Monday London's Peer Award Winner

We have now finalised the voting for London's entry into the Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards, and the winner is ... Reporo! Congratulations to all involved at Reporo, we shall be watching the grand final in February at the Mobile Monday gathering at 3GSM. To all the other companies entered and that have demoed at a MoMoLondon event, a huge thanks to your efforts and I am sure you will join with us in wishing Reporo good luck at the Awards in Barcelona.

MoMo London: "Bubble 2.0?"

This week's Mobile Monday, the first of 2007, featured a great panel discussion on the current innovation and funding boom, especially as it relates to mobile startups. Are we in a bubble and if so, is it all about to go horribly wrong...again? Well, the consensus of the panel seemed to be that there are some very real differences this time around. Watch out for the podcast, coming soon, for the whole story.

Roughly 200 mobile industry executives came to hear our expert panel of prognosticators pontificate on this portentious issue.

We also heard from some great startups working on mobile innovations:Aditon, OOKL, Quickal and Reporo. Many thanks to our panelists and to our great demoers!

Finally, we have opened up the voting for Mobile Monday London's entrant into the Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards happening on the 12th of Feb in Barcelona (co-located with the lesser-known 3GSM event).

The vote is to be performed through SMS, one vote each and is sponsored by Telecom Express . Send in one of the following messages to 88088

MOMO JUVINO
MOMO OTODIO
MOMO 3GDOCTOR
MOMO WIDERWEB
MOMO PINPPL
MOMO OOKL
MOMO ACTIVEMEDIA
MOMO RAPIDMOBILE
MOMO MARMOT
MOMO PITCHTV
MOMO REPORO
MOMO ADITON
MOMO QUICKAL

This service is free but you will be charged your normal network rates to send the message.

MoMo Global Peer Awards - London Nominations, Short list

The short-list comprises UK based start-ups that have demoed to London MoMo since the last MoMo Global Peer Awards. Voting on the short list will take place after the event on Monday 15th Jan and will remain open till Friday 19th Jan.

The short list and when they presented is as follows. Each company has been asked to supply a 100 word summary of what they do, just in case you don't remember/weren't there at the time! The 100 word summaries are below the short list.

May 06
Juvino www.juvino.com

Jun 06
3G Doctor 3gdoctor.com

July 06
Otodio www.otodio.com
Active Media Technology www.activemediatech.com

October 06
Wider Web www.widerweb.co.uk
Rapid Mobile Media www.rapid-mobile.com

December 06
pinppl www.pinppl.com
Marmot Technologies www.marmot-technologies.com
Pitch TV www.pitch.tv

Jan 07
OOKL www.ookl.org.uk
Reporo www.reporo.com
Aditon www.aditon.com
Quickal www.quickal.com

100 Word Summaries

Juvino www.juvino.com

Juvino is a service aimed at enabling mobile users to easily save on their mobile costs. It works through the use of free downloadable software (Symbian and J2ME which routes calls and texts off the operator's network and into an alternative network for delivery. Savings of up to 95% on international calls, 65% on cross network calls and 50% on text messaging are possible. Importantly the service works on current mass market GSM mobiles phones and does not require a Wi-Fi connection.

3G Doctor 3gdoctor.com

3G Doctor provides the 24/7 opportunity to meet with qualified General Medical Council registered Doctors by 3G Video Calling. In addition to offering the promise of an inexpensive means of access to impartial advice on non urgent health concerns, the service overlies an open and generic platform which can support an unlimited and evolving range of m-health devices and solutions and which can be customized to the needs of individuals. 3G Doctor is currently establishing its presence through the organisation of a large trial with a leading UK charity that represents physically disabled adults.

Otodio www.otodio.com

Otodio is a new way of delivering content for users to effectively listen to publications and documents. It is specifically designed for multitasking and for enhanced learning. e.g. listen to print media or enterprise documents while driving; or significantly improve retention by looking and listening.

Navigation, and many other key features, mean Otodio delivers a massively improved user experience for consuming print type information in comparison to Podcasting (based on vinyl music paradigm). Also, unlike Podcasting, Otodio also allows media and print content owners to easily, effectively, profitably make their content available for audio consumption. Think of Otodio as a mobile centric mix of PDF and Skype.

Active Media Technology www.activemediatech.com

ActiveMedia Technology is a leading mobile coupon and ticketing platform provider. We have deployed our platform for successful campaigns like Orange Wednesdays in the UK and Romania, Hutch Tuesdays in India, Virgin Mobile Louder and numerous other campaigns for Sprint, Telefonica and retailers.

Our patent pending platform RAPOS (Redemption at POS), initially launched in 2001 has been developed working with customers in different sectors. It allows for tickets to be purchased online, or on mobile using PayPal mobile, browse for lastminute ticket availability and combine location feeds to target the offers and have the ticket or coupon delivered in the form of barcodes and read at POS using a cheap and scalable $ 20 webcameras connected to PC based tills.

We have conducted over 13 million mobile tickets making ActiveMedia Technology the leading mobile couponing and ticketing company.

Wider Web www.widerweb.co.uk

WiderWeb is a leading developer of mobile web access solutions, providing adaptation servers to bring the whole web to mobile users. The WiderWeb technology takes poorly structured web sites and delivers them in a highly optimised, compressed and standards based XHTML/MP format to devices. Markets being addressed include Open Web access plus Mobile Search and RSS Syndication.

WiderWeb deploys solutions to service providers and leading mobile operators around the world, including Hutchison3G and Amstrad. WiderWeb also works with a growing number of value added partners and resellers including 724 Solutions, Mobixell, Zeus Technology and Adamind plc.

Rapid Mobile Media www.rapid-mobile.com

Rapid Mobile’s Ad360 is a suite of intelligent mobile advertising solutions, making mobile advertising work for advertisers, publishers and consumers on any mobile device.

Ad360 neatly removes the biggest obstacles on the path to successful and sustainable mobilization and “monetization” of on and off-line content. It eliminates mobile application porting costs, prevents ad avoidance, and replaces perceived spam with intelligent, context-specific messages tailored to individual consumer’s needs and tastes.

Online retailers, listings companies, content providers, network operators, and brand owners, or their advertising agencies, can use Ad360 to deliver well-executed messages directly to their most important audiences.

Pinppl www.pinppl.com

pinppl (pronounced "pin people") is a miniature social network and profile hosting service for users of the BlackBerry. It utilises the built-in messaging features that all BlackBerry devices have, linking people by their PIN numbers (unique identifiers given to every device).

It runs on the BlackBerry's native Web browser, as well as on a full screen browser. Users simply have to visit a pinppl profile, click on a user's PIN number, and start communicating right away, in real time, using the BlackBerry's pre-installed email and instant messaging applications.

Users can upload a photo, tag their profile with hobbies and interests, add and remove friends, and even manage comments.

Marmot Technologies www.marmot-technologies.com

Nice-1 is a mobile social networking platform that provides users with remote access to community functions. Through a single, simple application users can share text, photos, music and video content across mobiles, e-mail and the web, and because Nice-1 works over the internet, all this is delivered at very low cost.

In addition to significantly enhancing their member proposition, Nice-1 provides social networks with a number of additional benefits such as a viral marketing tool, free campaign messaging, permission based marketing control and full campaign transaction history.

Pitch TV www.pitch.tv

Pitch, the UK's first advertising-funded mobile content provider, has launched a brand new service offering users a fully-interactive entertainment community on their mobile handsets. Bringing the Web 2.0 social networking phenomenon to the mobile phone, Pitch's new service features instant messaging, photo and video upload and sharing as well
as access to an exciting new online community. Through the new service, Pitch customers can build their own mobile home page, complete with a unique user name and inbox, allowing them to send messages to friends or groups, as well as participating in real time group chat with other Pitch members. Thus users can create and join interest groups, enabling them to stay in touch with old friends or meet new people with similar interests - all through their mobile phones. Pitch does not charge for this service, so the only costs users incur come from data charges, making instant communication significantly cheaper than sending a text through a network operator.

OOKL www.ookl.org.uk

OOKL is an innovative learning service that enables children to use mobiles to 'collect' objects, record sounds, write comments and take pictures of objects relating to what they are learning. This information is instantly uploaded to a web page where the children create a presentation of their work and then share it with their classmates, teacher and family online. The service is accredited by Curriculum Online and has been hailed by the Institute of Education as the 'future of learning".

Reporo www.reporo.com

Reporo's mission is to provide compelling and addictive content and services for mobiles for free. Instant Messaging, text and picture messaging, News, Gaming and shopping that includes great brands such as CDWow!, Domino's Pizza and ebay are all enabled by a quick and easy free download to your mobile handset.

Reporo is also the technical power behind the Carphone Warehouse's MyMobileLife service. In addition to the Reporo offerings, MyMobileLife provides comprehensive football alerts as a premium service - streaming goals and much more live information straight to your handset.

Aditon www.aditon.com

Aditon is the brains behind U Daily - a personalised content discovery channel pushed to the mobile phone’s idle-screen.

The Aditon platform delivers individually-tailored content, teasers and advertising every day - which the user can actively engage with, follow a call-to-action, or simply click away. This content is free to the user and funded by advertising.

U Daily allows the user to be entertained and informed when and where they choose. The more they engage, the more relevant the content becomes.

The Aditon service offers Mobile Content Providers, Advertisers and Operators with an innovative way to grow their revenues, audiences, and overall brand engagement.

Aditon is a PA Group company.

Quickal www.quickal.com

Quickal enables people to deploy complete mobile marketing solutions. We provide a short-code service along with Internet to mobile click and a search facility at Quickal.com. Quickal enables people to develop MMS messages at our site and deploy them as a complete mobile marketing solution in a matter of minutes. At Quickal you can preview messages, manage your messaging accounts, assign interests, and view far more content than just messages. For more information please visit www.quickal.com and/or call 01273704508 if you are interested in using Quickal.

Mobile SVG Event in NYC

The MobileMonday NY committee, Antoine Quint of SVG.org, Scott Weiss of Usable Products and Dan Appelquist of Vodafone and MobileMonday London are happy to invite you to the Rich Mobile Experiences with SVG event held in New York City on January 29th.

This event has been set up to provide an exhaustive overview of the Mobile SVG ecosystem with a strong selection of leaders in the field -- Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm, Vodafone, Ikivo, Opera, BitFlash and Beatware -- coming together to present their solutions and visions around Mobile SVG.

Speakers will update you on everything relevant to this key rich mobile technology including authoring solutions, deployed and live services, integration in application platforms (J2ME, Brew, Symbian), user interfaces design, mobile browsing, etc. A closing panel and Q&A session, followed by a networking reception, will allow you to take part in the discussion and get answers to real-world problems related to creating rich mobile experiences with SVG.

The main event will run from 3pm to 8pm, followed by the reception, on Monday January 29th at the Samsung Experience in the Time Warner Center near Central Park. Registration is completely free and already open on our Upcoming.org page. There is limited seating, so take the time to register now. Look out for a complete event program on this page in the coming days.

Jan 15: Registration Now Open

Registration is now open for our next meeting, on the 15th of January, hosted by Wireless World Forum (with reception sponsored by Nokia). The venue is the CBI conference centre at Centrepoint.

The theme for the evening will be 'Bubble 2.0?' We will feature a panel of experts grappling with questions about the current boom in the startup markup (particularly focused on mobile startups). Is the current boom sustainable? Panelists will include Azeem Azhar (Reuters), Martin Fiennes (Clarity Capital Partners), Madhuban Kumar (Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures) and Sam Sethi (Vecosys).

We will also feature a number of demos from mobile startups in the run-up to the Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards happening in Barcelona next month at 3GSM.

If you wish to attend, please register yourselves in our database.