Events
Here’s a quick preview of some of the disucssions and people at the Future of Mobile conference.
Future of Mobile - Preview from Ben Smith on Vimeo.
Last night the MIR Show team headed to MoMo London and Swedish Beers as per my post yesterday.
It was a super honour to be asked to film a segment of the MIR Show on-stage during the event — thank you chiefly to Helen Keegan for suggesting the concept and inviting us — and thank you [...]
Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK was originally slated to host the ‘Gateways and Barriers to mobile start ups’ segment at the upcoming Future of Mobile Conference.
Alas Mike’s had to dash off to China so the chaps at Future of Mobile asked if I’d be up for chairing it. Right on. You bet.
I’m no [...]
At least, that’s what I’m going to speak about at The Future of Mobile conference next month.
Dominic Travers, the organiser, just asked me for a few sentences outlining what I’ll be speaking about. Here they are:
The future of mobile is dire. Until we stop using telephones with bolted on ’shit internet’, the industry is, [...]
And we are most definitely there. With bells on.
To be clear this is the…er.. ‘Smartphone Show‘. Although it’s referred to as the ‘Symbian Smartphone Show’. Are they the sponsors now? I originally thought it was all about symbian only. But Blackberry are exhibiting. So are Motorola, Sony and Samsung. [...]
If you’re into search and location based services and you’re based in or near London, get thee to this event.
Chinwag are putting on an excellent evening. Here are the details:
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Is an alliance of mobile search and location-based services (LBS) poised to take the consumer experience and [...]
I arrived at the T-Mobile Winter Preview event this evening to find the MIR Show team in full swing. (I’d arrived late with the camera.)
I was either expecting to be entirely - yet politely - ignored by the T-Mobile people, or strung up immediately by a TMO Kangaroo Court deeply unimpressed with my recent posts [...]
What’s going on in mobile in the Czech Republic?
We’re not entirely sure.
Which is why we’re heading there in November. It’ll be cold. We might even get a bit of snow.
We’re going to take the MIR Show Team — Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley — to [...]
If you’re interested in billing then you might want to attend Next Generation Billing 2008 in Budapest.
I’ll be taking part in a discussion on developing a customer-centric approach to billing.
Next Generation Billing 2008
24 – 26 November 2008,
Corinthia Grand Royal Hotel, Budapest
You can find out more details here.
I’ve got some good video footage — about 70 gig’s worth. Luckily I brought along my 1TB drive. My brand of choice? Western Digital. Although I’ve also got an Iomega 1TB back in London. You need that when you’re doing video.
Today was action-packed with meeting-after-meeting along with some impromptu connections [...]
We’ll be producing a special report Mobile Industry Review (”MIR”) show from CTIA. I’m hoping to include Sybase, Sierra Wireless, Nuance, Zumobi and Cell Trust so far. There’s a lot more on the schedule.
If you’re heading to CTIA and you’d like to feature, drop me a note and we’ll sort schedules.
To qualify, you have to [...]
A note arrived in from the notable mobile marketeer, Helen Keegan:
For those of you who are interested, I’m running a one-day course on mobile marketing for the lovely folks at E-Consultancy on 16 September in London near Old Street. It’ll be a small class and we’ll cover all aspects of mobile marketing from SMS to [...]
We’re taking the weekly podcast to Brighton this Saturday morning. Oh yes. We’re descending with our superstar podcast team, Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley.
They are being recognised! Dan was slightly taken aback the other day when Alex Meisl of mobile genisues, Sponge Group, spotted him. (Dan’s company, Howler Tech, [...]
News just in from the guys at Moblog about their mobile blogging platform which is driving a great initiative by Greenpeace, Oxfam and Water Aid intended to make sure Glastonbury farm (yes, it’s a real farm with real cows and stuff) is back in a working state as soon as possible: the Leave No Trace [...]
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Dan Ilett here - I’m the publisher for SMS Text News.
SMS Text News is giving out 19 awards for mobile industry excellence and one award for being dreadful.
The categories are:
Best handset
Best application in mobile
Best marketing campaign
Best public social use of mobile
Best business person in the mobile industry
Best user
Best mobile marketing manager
Best CSR story
Best instant messaging [...]
After the success of the recent Unlimited Drinks event in London, we’re moving over to Dublin to host an event over there.
The exact details will follow shortly, but it will be held in central Dublin on July 10th, so if you’d like to join us then email me at ewan@smstextnews.com with the subject ‘UNLIMITED DRINKS=YES‘ [...]
So what’s important about July 4th - well it’s American Independence Day of course; it’s *ahem* the day before my birthday and … it’s also the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference.
They’ve got a pretty packed conference with some great speakers and some interesting panels. You can see the full finalised agenda here, but it includes all [...]
I popped along to the Flip Video launch this evening (Recent Coverage). It was held at the rather smart Soho House Hotel — they’ve got a little cinema there which is where Ray Sangster, President of Flip EMEA, welcomed everyone and presided over the launch.
The event was very well attended with media from all [...]
It was a brilliant evening tonight at Unlimited Drinks, London.
Thank you all for coming.
I have a huge pile of business cards that I now have to ‘write-up’. It is seriously going to take me ages. But I will get through it and do a few lines on everyone and a link to their [...]
Yes! Unlimited Drinks London is tonight!
If you’re in San Francisco right now you can probably just make it if you’re getting on the plane RIGHT NOW and you take the Heathrow Express when you arrive in. But make sure you’re names down on the list by emailing me (details).
Here’s the critical info
The date: [...]
Unlimited Drinks London is tomorrow night. I am really looking forward to it. It’s going to be brilliant.
If you haven’t already emailed to get on the guest list, please do so at the link above. We’re extremely busy — well over our 150 person limit, however I’m working on the basis that [...]
Put on your best underpants on Tuesday morning, for Charlotte (and quite possibly, some of her crew) of Noisy Media is due to be filming during Unlimited Drinks this coming Tuesday.
They’ll be grabbing each and every attendee and asking them to do a piece to camera.
Charlotte, when she’s not creating masterpieces for a veritable [...]
I’ve picked a random six names in no particular order from the list as a sweetener. Suffice to say you’ll be meeting some hot’rockin’mobile’geniuses.
- Mike Taylor, Head of Media & Entertainment Services for WIN plc.
- Jane Young from Chargebox
- Andy Smith, Sales Director, EMEA, AdMob
- Roger Gronberg, Founder, MoMail
- Darren Cockburn, Corporate Development, Channel4
- [...]
If you’re hoping to come along to Unlimited Drinks next week, please please get your name down.
We’re quite some way over the 150 limit however I expect a flurry of ‘woops, sorry’ notes — that’s obviously to be expected — so if you’re coming along, please do mail me — instructions at the link above.
If [...]
Congratulations to all at Blyk, everybody’s favourite ad-funded MNVO. The beautiful people were out in force when I arrived at the Blyk summer party this evening.
They know their stuff, do Blyk. Their events are always well orchestrated and organised. Here’s a QIK of me arriving:
I was a little bit late so I [...]
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