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WIPJAM Party at World Congress 2012 Video Montage
Another clip has surfaced from Barcelona!
We need to get an "industry" band together in London. If you sing or play lead drop me a line!
Video from the Jameoke at @WIPJAM Party at Mobile World Congress
Back from Mobile World Congress.
No write up on anything from me this year. Not enough time, and lacking inspiration. To be honest I spent 90% of my time outside the Fira at the various fringe events. Anyhow, thanks to Terence Eden here is a quick video from last nights Jameoke organised by WIP. Nick Mullen on bass, Caroline Lewko on vocals, and yours truly on drums. So much fun, can't wait for the next one!
BlueVia: Mobile World Congress, China, Brazil, Evernote and Wikimedia. Wow!
I try not to write too much about BlueVia on my personal blog, as you can read that stuff here on the BlueVia blog.
However sometimes there is some awesome stuff going on that I just need to share!
As we head towards the madness of Mobile World Congress, I'm excited to tell you that BlueVia is hosting an intimate event with China Unicom, where you can learn how to enter the Chinese market, and get some insight into what types of apps Chinese consumers are downloading from the China Unicom Wo Store.
Tickets are super limited (in fact at the time of writing only 4 are left) so sign up quickly!
You can sign up here: Selling Your Apps in China
Spin the globe from China to Latin America, and we arrive in Brazil. News breaking today is BlueVia is partnering with Evernote and Wikimedia to run a social inclusion hack in Brazil in the Spring. More information and sign up here.
If you are attending MWC, check out my whereabouts on my Plancast feed. It would be great to meet and chat.
A quick wrap up from MWC 2011
Just back from Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona and completely burnt out. A crazy week, but so so positive for BlueVia.
You can read more on the BlueVia blog, but some highlights from the past 10 days include our first press release, our first case studies demonstrating how developers are beginning to use the BlueVia platform, and some nice coverage on TechCrunch, Light Reading, Telecom TV, and New Media Age. We also had some very kind comments like this and this - thank you :-)
As this is my personal blog there is no point repeating it all, so below are a couple of quick video appearances I made during the week describing what we are up to, and explaining BlueVia in under three minutes for the uninitiated.
Oh, and I hope you all unlocked your MWC Foursquare badge!
James Parton #MWC11 from George Nimeh on Vimeo.
Exclusive Mobile World Congress Foursquare Badge, and how to unlock it!
Telefonica has teamed up with Foursquare to offer an exclusive Mobile World Congress badge.
To unlock it, follow these simple instructions:
- Follow Telefonica on Foursquare by clicking http://foursquare.com/telefonicamwc
- Check in to Foursquare from the Telefonica Stand which is located in Hall 8, stand number 8A115
- Once you have you badge, show it to one of the stand hostesses for a chance to win a prize
Mobile World Congress 2011
It’s that time of year again, when the mobile industry converges on Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress 2011 conference and expo.
I'll be there with the rest of the BlueVia team, and below you can find a brief summary of our plans for the week. If you want to learn more about what BlueVia can offer or if you have an app you want to get in front of 80 million customers, come and find us and have a chat.
Sunday 13th February
@josevalles49 will be at Mobile Sunday
Monday 14th February
11:30 I'll be speaking on a panel discussing “Making App's Smarter’ in (Hall 5 Auditorium 2)
11:30 @leevyashim will be presenting BlueVia at the Wholesale Applications Community Developer Event (ADC Auditorium 1 - Hall 7)
From 11:30 for the whole day @davilagrau will be on hand to demo BlueVia at the Wholesale Applications Community Developer Event Be sure to drop by and pick up some BlueVia freebies.
From 15:00 @josevalles49 @jamesparton and @leevyashim will be at the Mobile Premier Awards
At 17:00 @rmelmun will be speaking on an Operator API panel at the Wholesale Applications Community Developer Event
In the evening I'll be at the MEF Connects event
Tuesday 15th February
10:00 @leevyashim and @davilagrau will be demo’ing Telefonica’s integration into WAC on the WAC Stand (Hall 7 at 7C82)
Wednesday 16th February
10:00 @leevyashim and @davilagrau will be demo’ing Telefonica’s integration into WAC on the WAC Stand (Hall 7 at 7C82)
14:00 @davilagrau will be demo’ing Bluevia on the Java Stand (App Planet - Stand 7C18)
19:30 The whole team will be hanging out at the WIP Carnival of Nations Developer Party. Be sure to stop by for one of the free BlueVia cocktails on offer ;-)
Thursday 17th February
Shaking off the hangover’s from the night before,
09:30 @josevalles49 @davilagrau @leevyashim will be at the all day WIP Jam
10:00 @leevyashim will be demo’ing Telefonica’s integration into WAC on the WAC Stand (Hall 7 at 7C82)
11:00 @davilagrau will be demo’ing Bluevia on the Java Stand (App Planet - Stand 7C18)
I look forward to seeing you there, and don’t forget the cocktails!
Mobile Premier Awards 2010
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Apologies in advance that my wrap up of the event is not complete. A scheduling conflict unfortunately meant that I had to leave before the end of the formal agenda.
I'm sure that the official round up of the event and publication of all the winners will be live on the MPA website soon, plus you can look for Twitter activity from the event on it's two hash tags that seemed to be in most frequent use: #mpa and #mpa10 . The venue had no cellular coverage again this year hint hint Rudy ;-) so only the lucky few on WiFi were tweeting from the room.
This wrap up is therefore in the bite sizes pieces that I would have tweeted if I was online at the time!
Russell Buckley from AdMob and Rich Wong from Accel Partners gave the keynotes. I came in too late to do justice to Russell's presentation, but Rich gave some important perspective, sprinkled with a little nostalgia. You can grab Rich's slides here.
Rich rightly pointed out that there has never been a more exciting time to be in the mobile space. Just 10 years ago there were no high speed mobile data networks, actually no real data networks of any note regardless of speed, and phones were only just coming out of the grey scale age with the first colour phones appearing in 2002. I then started a mini personal flashback to my days of launching MMS with O2 UK, and the awe that the arrive of the little Sony Ericsson T68 brought - colour screen, java, MMS, clip on camera - that little thing, quickly followed by the T68i, was a turning point for the industry.
Rich then spoke about Smartphone growth driving new services and presenting a platform for innovative startup's to really florish, saying that he believed the ingredients were now all there for a new Google or eBay sized company to emerge. Of course he rightly pointed out that geography is hugely important, and in emerging markets the feature phone and Nokia still dominate.
Rich took the opportunity to play back the demise of the walled garden of the Mobile Operator portals, with mobile now following the trend we saw on fixed Internet - Google now being the number 1 mobile site for traffic.
He then moved on to an interesting Alien vs Predator analogy to describe the hardware and O/S war in mobile over the past 10 years.
Alien vs Predator #1: Nokia vs Microsoft
Alien vs Predator #2: Nokia vs Asia (ref Sharp's Voda Live devices)
Alien vs Predator #3: Apple vs The Droids
I guess the interesting there is the future relevance of Nokia.
Finally Rich wrapped up with some pearls for start up's (see his deck for the accurate playback), but the bullets were:
- Describe the problem statement clearly
- Team background and credibility
- Platform and distribution strategy
- Stay capital efficient
- Work with investors that have an in-depth understanding of your space
Hectic start to 2010
Next week brings the daddy of all mobile related events, Mobile World Congress. I'm aiming to write throughout the week at MWC, as I did in 2009, but who knows if those good intentions will be delivered upon! I definitely will be glued to Twitter, so be sure to follow me for updates from the show .
If you are going to MWC, you will find the O2 Litmus team at the following events, and if you want to hook up there, ping me:
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Last night our friends from Palm were back in town, and we held another well received joint O2 Litmus / Palm barcamp - you can check out the real time feedback from the event here, and you can check out the photo's here. We also ran a competition with O2 Customers to win some Palm Pre's, asking them to what ends would they go to get their hands on one. Some amusing responses here.
One last quick plug for our Developer research with Vision Mobile. I’d encourage all mobile developers to participate and help set the standards for the future of mobile software development. All participants will be included in a draw for 21 great prizes, including 1 participant wins €500 in Amazon Vouchers, 20 participants win a glossy A1 wallchart of the Mobile Industry Atlas, the definitive who’s who of the mobile ecosystem.
Next up is Innovate!2010. Innovate!2010 is a global competition to identify and accelerate the Innovate!100: The World’s 100 Most Promising Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Startups.
Innovate!2010 is unique in that it features a series of distributed pitching and networking events 20+ startup centers across Europe and the US, and a completely transparent ranking based Guidewire Group’s G/Score Assessment Methodology. The program is being supported by a prestigious group of market-leading companies like Best Buy, HP, Motorola, O2 Litmus, RIM, SAP, Sun, SWIFT and Verizon, dozens of early-stage investors, and marquee media partners.
The program works like this:
- 15th: Mobile Premier Awards
- 15th: Presenting on "Supporting Developers" in the main MWC conference agenda
- 15th: Presenting at the LiMo Foundation seminar
- 18th: Participating in the WIP Jam in App Planet
- And throughout the show we are sponsoring and hanging out at the Symbian Foundation lounge
- Startups apply online to compete for expert feedback & validation, promotion, and over $100,000 in prizes.
- Guidewire Group’s analysts will select 250-300 of the most promising startups - Innovate!100 Finalists - to pitch at one of 20+ networking events called Pitch Slams.
- At each Pitch Slam, a panel of judges trained to conduct G/Score Assessments, score companies as they pitch to an audience of more than 100 local investors, entrepreneurs, technology executives and members of the media.
- After all of the Pitch Slams, top-ranking are be named to the Innovate!100 and enjoy global promotion.
- A follow-on program, called the Innovate! Connection Program offers all of the Innovate!100 Finalists pre-qualified introductions to potential partners, investors and customers for a fee.
