Category Archives: Events

Mobile Web Megatrends in San Francisco 8-Sept-2008

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Well known author and blogger Ajit Jaokar is hosting Mobile Web Megatrends, a one day conference on the mobile web in San Franciso, Monday September 8th, 2008. This is two days before the start of the big CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment show, also in San Francisco. Ajit’s put together a great lineup of speakers from Opera , ESPN Mobile, Oracle (atomdb), Admob , Moblast, Skyfire, Cellfire, MyNuMo , OMTP Bondi and Gemalto SCWS plus some of my favorite bloggers … Continue reading →

Mobile Web Wars Video?

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I’m traveling in the US Midwest so I missed last week’s TechCrunch/August Capital Mobile Web Wars roundtable. I’d like to watch the video of the event at Ustream.tv but I’m sans laptop on this trip. An N95-3 is my computer. The Ustream video is Flash so S60Webkit and Mobitubia should be able to display it, but they can’t. It must be in some sort of weird Flash variant. The Beta Skyfire browser actually starts to play the video but locks up about five minutes into the two … Continue reading →

Open To Anything – San Francisco

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Last night I had the pleasure of attending a Nokia Nseries Open To Anything event in San Francisco hosted by the great folks at WOM World/ Nokia. The intimate gathering at Absinthe Brasserie and Bar brought together a group of Bay Area bloggers and three representatives of London based WOM World, a Nokia sponsored site that is the center of the company’s blogger relations program. It was a free ranging, informal session where the locals shared their enthusiasm for S60 … Continue reading →

MobileCamp SF 2

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I spent the day at MobileCampSF, A BarCamp “unconference” focused on mobile development and monetization. MobileCamp is a a loosely structured gathering open to all mobile enthusiasts. Anyone can present on any mobile related topic in whatever format they desire. MobileCamps have been held in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The first San Francisco Camp was a great event so i was eager to attend today’s sequel. I wasn’t disappointed, MobileCamp was expertly organized by Indira, Ritwik, Andy … Continue reading →

Announcing Mobile 2.0 Europe

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The Mobile Monday team of Daniel Appelquist, Gregory Gorman, Mike Rowehl, Peter Vesterbacka and Rudy De Waele together with dotopen and ESADE have put together another Mobile 2.0 event, this one to be held in Barcelona on July 4th, 2008. Details are here. I had the pleasure of attending the first two Mobile 2.0 events here in San Francisco and I have to say that they are the best mobile conferences I’ve ever attended anywhere. Mobile 2.0 brings together the … Continue reading →

SuperNova Conference – Great Opportunity for Mobile Visionaries

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Do you have an idea for a killer mobile application or service? Here’s a chance to present it in front of an audience of leading mobile technolgy exectives, investors and venture capitalists. SuperNova is a major tech conference devoted to emerging web and networking technologies. It will be held in San Francisco, June 16-18. This year Supernova, in conjunction with TechCrunch, will host a session called Mobile Connections which will showcase game changing pre-commercial or non-commercial mobile “concepts, prototypes, research … Continue reading →

Last Chance for Rock Opera Invites

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I still have three pairs of free invites left for Opera Software’s Rock Opera Party Thursday night in San Francisco. The party features 2 bands, The 88 and The Binges, and an open bar. Opera will be launching new betas of Opera Mini and the Opera Desktop browser at the event. To get your invites Just leave a comment here by 9 PM tonight San Francisco time. Be sure to mention “Rock Opera invites” in your comment so I can … Continue reading →

Rock Opera Invites

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Next Thursday October 25th, Opera Software is holding a launch party in San Francisco. Details here. The event will mark the release of at least two new products including a new Opera Mini 4 Beta. The theme of the party is Rock Opera and there will be rock, provided by two bands, The 88 and The Binges and an open bar! If any of my readers in the San Francisco area are interested in attending I have three pairs of … Continue reading →