mobile monday london

July 14th - Enabling location in applications

2008-06-30T13:48:00.003+01:00

Its been over a year since we visited the subject of Location and now is a great time to revisit with a raft of alternate approaches to LBS from mobile operators. This month's event kindly sponsored by Skyhook Wireless will be held on Monday the 14th of July at our usual venue of the CBI Conference Centre near Tottenham Court Road tube station. Doors at 6pm with a 6.30pm start. This month we feature the following people ...

Ted Morgan - CEO of Skyhook Wireless
Ben Ward - Yahoo! Fire Eagle
Charles Wiles - Google Gears
Andrew Scott - Rummble
Justin Davis - Buddy Ping
Matt Womer - W3C

We also welcome to London a number of our colleagues from around the Mobile Monday globe and we are sure will feel welcome by our MoMoLondon community.

Its going to be a great event, registration will open mid-day on Friday (July 4th) ... we will update this article with registration details and post to the mailing list with an update.

June 2nd Wrap-Up

2008-06-06T14:00:00.004+01:00

Thanks to Helen Keegan for chairing a really engrossing panel session, and thanks of course to our panelists, Stephen Pinches from the Financial Times, Matthew Postgate from the BBC, Robert Thurner from Incetivated and Marek Pawlowski from PMN.

Monday's events has been blogged by James Cooper and Ben Matthews - thanks for both of these great write-ups!

Thanks to all who attended and made it such a great event and to our host for the evening, Wireless Foundry!

June 2nd: Whassup in Mobile Media and Marketing?

2008-05-26T17:39:00.008+01:00

Our next event (sponsored by Wireless Foundry) will be on June 2nd and will feature a high-level panel discussion on current mobile web, services and applications from a media and marketing perspective. We'll take a look at everything from mobile web to proximity to messaging to games and highlight creative execution and effective campaigns. We'll also discuss what media-owners and agencies want and how we as an industry should or could respond. We will also be challenging our expert panel to take a glimpse into the future and tell us what's catching their eye on the mobile horizon and what they think will capture the public's attention in the future.

Helen Keegan of Beep Marketing will chair the panel and it will feature Stephen Pinches from the Financial Time, Matthew Postgate from the BBC, Robert Thurner from Incetivated and, fresh from leading the successful MEX conference this week, Marek Pawlowski of PMN!

Those details again:

Theme: Whassup in Mobile Media and Marketing?
When: June 2nd (doors open at 6pm as usual)
Where: Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX, UK
(http://www.rss.org.uk)

Our kind sponsor: Wireless Foundry!

Registration now open (you must be subscribed to the mailing list to register).

Monetizing through Advertizing, 12th May

2008-05-13T18:16:00.002+01:00

The presentations from last night are available below:

Ili (pdf, 2.8 MB)
Claire (pdf, 3 MB)
Shan (pdf, 240 kB)
Russell (pdf, 1.6 MB)
Ray (pdf, 1.5 MB)

Many thanks to the speakers and to our kind hosts, Thomson Reuters.

Monetisation through Advertising - May 12th event

2008-05-02T14:56:00.004+01:00

The May Mobile Monday London event focusses on Monetisation of mobile services through advertising and is kindly sponsored and hosted at the offices at Canary Wharf of Thomson Reuters. The speaker lineup this month is:

Ray Anderson - Bango
Shan Henderson - Vodafone
Claire Valoti - Mindshare
Russell Buckley - Admob

As always you will need to register yourself with our Yahoo! group before you can register for the event. Doors open at 6pm for a 6.30pm start. Hope to see you there.

Location

Presentations from April 7 - Mobile User Experience

2008-04-11T09:25:00.002+01:00

The presentations from Monday's MoMo are as follows:

Steve Ives (Taptu) (5 MB PPT)
Scott Weiss (Human Factors International) (3 MB PPT)
Bryan Rieger (Future Platforms) (1.5 MB PDF)
Marek Pawlowski (MEX)

See also the demos of OctoBastard and Phone Fight from Over The Air!

Many thanks again to Taptu for hosting a great evening!

Jo

Lastminute.com labs showcase phone fight at MoMoLondon from ribot on Vimeo.

OctoBastard from Future Platforms

April event, registration now open

2008-03-27T12:20:00.002Z

'Mobile UI, planning through to implementation' is the theme for the MoMoLondon April event. We are kindly sponsored by Taptu and have a great lineup of speakers:

Steve Ives - CEO Taptu www.taptu.com and m.taptu.com
Bryan Rieger - Future Platforms Creative director www.futureplatforms.com
Scott Weiss - Executive Director, EMEA, Human Factors International www.humanfactors.com
Marek Pawlowski - MEX www.pmn.co.uk/mex/
Dan Appelquist will be summing up and reviewing the Over the Air developers conference

The event will be held on April 7th, at the CBI Conference Center (just above Tottenham Court Tube station), doors open 6pm with a 6.30pm start as always followed by a drinks reception. You must be a member of the Yahoo group first to register for the event.

Live streaming from QIK for March 10th event

2008-03-09T11:24:00.002Z

If you cannot make it to the event on March 10th, we are pleased to announce that QIK will be streaming the event live from 3G mobile phone. The event will start at 6.30pm so if you are at home or still at work and want or want to catch up after the event visit the LIVE STREAM PAGE. Huge thanks to QIK for offering to cover our event.

March 10th - Mobile London update

2008-03-06T14:46:00.004Z

We have now confirmed the speakers lineup for the special event on March 10th event around the theme of Mobile London:

Ian Henderson - TfL
Li-Qun Xu and Ron McArthur - BT
Nick Knowles- Kizoom
Ian Drury - BT
Gary Waite - O2
Phil Derry - TrackaPhone
Nick Norman - Consult Hyperion
Claire Maslen - O2
Davide Mancuso - PA Consulting
Marcus Taylor - Erlang
Stephen Browning - NXP

First of all we would like to thank our co-organisers of the event and venue Transport for London to be held at the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden.

Mobile Monday London would like to express our sincere thanks to the sponsors for the evening:

March 10th - Mobile London

2008-02-28T12:09:00.002Z

March see's MoMoLondon take a step away from our normal themes based around technology, experience or market and focus on how mobile as a whole is affecting people within the London area. We have a great lineup of speakers from TfL, Kizoom, BT, O2 plus others to be confirmed. Places are a bit more limited than usual so you will need to be registered with our Yahoo group first, then following the instructions to register for our event when posted to the group. The event will be held at the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, doors open at 6pm with a 6.30pm start as usual.

Presentations from Feb 4, Mobile Operating Systems

2008-02-11T19:30:00.000Z

A most interesting evening thanks to our various speakers, and with thanks to Symbian for hosting this event. The presentations are linked below.

Jo

David Wood, Symbian (pdf) (300kB)

Mark Burk, MMetrics (pdf) (5.3MB)

David Pollington, Vodafone (ppt) (1.7MB)

Karsten Homann, Trolltech (ppt) (631kB)

Mobile Operating Systems - 4th Feb

2008-01-24T11:15:00.000Z

Hosted by Symbian, our first MoMo for 2008 will be on Mobile Operating Systems and will be on Monday 4th Feb at our favourite location, the CBI Conference Centre at Centre Point.

At risk of being howled from the room for using vacuous clichés - is this a tipping point for mobile operating systems? There is a lot happening in this space at the moment, as David Wood says "Suddenly the Smartphone has become Sexy". But isn't this just the time at which details of the underlying operating systems are becoming less important to developers, since Web browsers increasingly support Web applications, or so says my colleague Dan "Ajax" Appelquist

Helping us understand the landscape, where things are going and how to make sense of it all will be speakers from Symbian, Trolltech, Vodafone and MMetrics.

As usual the presentations will be followed by a lively panel debate (well that depends on you, the audience, of course) followed by networking and conversation afterwards.

Registration will open on Monday 28th Jan at 2.00 pm. Details will be announced on the list when the registration opens. The event will start at 6.30 pm sharp.

We are very grateful to Symbian for supporting this event - see you there!

Jo

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MoMo London Explores "Voice 2.0"

2007-12-04T13:51:00.000Z

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

2007-11-29T09:54:00.000Z

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

2007-11-06T20:35:00.001Z

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

2007-10-11T18:36:00.000+01:00

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

2007-09-24T15:45:00.000+01:00

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

2007-09-10T07:20:00.000+01:00

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

2007-08-28T23:34:00.000+01:00

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

2007-08-07T18:09:00.000+01:00

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

2007-07-31T11:18:00.000+01:00

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!

2007-07-09T12:37:00.001+01:00

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

2007-06-29T20:20:00.000+01:00

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

2007-06-11T12:56:00.000+01:00

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

2007-06-08T16:45:00.000+01:00

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.