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Great map by MobileMonday Estonia:

View MoMo Chapters in a larger map

It is great to see how many chapters we have now / how much the MobileMonday community has grown over the last years…

The Austin chapter was founded on May 10 of 2005 and today it consists of more than 280 members. Our mission has remained the same “an open community of mobile professionals and enthusiasts in Austin, TX, that share both a common interest in mobile technologies and a desire to foster cooperation among individuals, the industry and academia.”

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I’ve been very busy lately to post this, but wanted to acknowledge all of our sponsors and speakers at our last (March) MobileMonday Austin event, specially the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.

It was a great meeting with great speakers. SXSWi was a blast as usual, and the MobileMonday Austin event complements it every well.

Thanks again!

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A reminder that today is MobileMonday Austin;topic The Mobile Web. It is going to be a great session… See you there.

When: March 16, 2009, 5:30-8:30pm (but will try to be done by 8pm to go back and continue enjoying SXSWi)

Where: The International Center of Austin (http://www.austin-international.us/)
201 East 2nd Street (btwn Brazos & San Jacinto)
Austin, Texas 78701
See map: http://tinyurl.com/d3voml

Cost: Zero, nada. Pizza and sodas will be served. But please register, see below

Topic: Mobile Web

Speakers:
* Mobile Web Industry metrics — Nielsen-Mobile
* The State of the Mobile Web — W3C (TBD)
* On Web Browser Trends and Strategies — Skyfire
* On Web Runtime APIs — OMTP
* On Widgets, the GSMA OneAPI — Vodafone
* Latest on Opera Browser and its Widget Platform - Opera Software

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Update Venue information for MobileMonday Austin. The next event will take place at The International Center of Austin; very convenient right on 2nd street by SXSW! Thanks to The International Center of Austin for the meeting room. And thanks to our sponsors W3C Mobile Web Initiative, Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) Forum, and Motive/Alcatel-Lucent.

For more information see MobileMonday Austin — Great speaker lineup — The Mobile Web.

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But wait, there is more!

Also, on Sunday March 15 don’t miss the “Mobile Web Apps & Widgets Meet-Up” at 5:00pm:

• Event: Mobile Web Apps & Widgets Meet-Up “Find out about your chance to win £20,000″
• What: Informational Meeting
• Host: Betavine
• Start Time: Sunday, March 15 at 5:00-8:00pm
• Where: Driskill Hotel Bar

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=56573382794&mid=238ec8G3289174dG3ff128fG7

Please note the next MobileMonday Austin meeting is on March 16, 2009 (the Monday of SXSW Interactive). More information will be published at the MobileMonday Austin website; see http://www.mobilemondayaustin.com.

Please note that I am still trying to figure out the venue. But mark your calendars. We have a great speaker line-up. If you have a room that holds 50 or more people in the downtown area, please let me know ASAP***.

For headcount purposes, please register at http://groups.google.com/group/momoaustin/edit/mobilemonday-austin-event-mar-16-2009.

• When: March 16, 2009 — 5:30-8:30pm (we will try to be done by 8pm so we can go and party/celebrate at SXSWi)
• Where: The International Center of Austin (http://www.austin-international.us/)
  201 East 2nd Street (btwn Brazos & San Jacinto)
  Austin, Texas 78701
  See map
• Cost: Nada, zero, free — if you would like to sponsor, please let me know
• General Topic: The Mobile Web
• Speakers:
• Mobile Web Industry metrics — Nielsen-Mobile
• The State of the Mobile Web — World Wide Web (W3C)
• On Web Browser Trends and Strategies — Skyfire
• On Web Runtime APIs and BONDI — Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP)
• On Widgets. The GSMA OneAPI — Vodafone

For headcount purposes, please register at http://groups.google.com/group/momoaustin/edit/mobilemonday-austin-event-mar-16-2009.

If you would like to speak/present and/or sponsor, please send me an email to enrique dot ortiz at gmail dot com.

Last Monday Feb 23rd we had our MobileMonday Austin meeting. The topic was “Rich Local Applications and Applications Stores”. The meeting started with David Gill of Nielsen Mobile who gave an excellent presentation on industry metrics on mobile applications and usage. This was followed by Dr. Michael Yuan of Ringful who covered iPhone applications and app stores, followed by Andrew Donoho of DDG who covered technology strategy and the iPhone.

It was a very good meeting, with tons of great info, all possible thanks to our sponsors and speakers: the Austin Wireless Alliance (AWA), Motive/Alcatel-Lucent, Ringful, Nielsen Mobile and the Donoho Design Group, and of course, to everyone who attended.

Please note that our next meeting is targeted for March 16 (the Monday of SXSW Interactive); stay tuned by visiting the MobileMonday Austin website, and subscribing to the mailing list.

Below are some photos of the meeting:

www.flickr.com More of cenrique_ortiz’s stuff tagged with mobilemondayaustin-feb2009

Mark your calendars…

Please register for the event at http://groups.google.com/group/momoaustin/web/event-feb-23-2009 (so we have a headcount to go by).

The next MobileMonday Austin is scheduled for Feb 23rd. The topic is on rich/local applications and App Stores. We will have industry/market and information on developing local/rich applications for iPhone and Android and other, and the importance/impact of App Stores.

For more information and dates, please visit the newly redesigned MobileMonday Austin website at http://www.mobilemondayaustin.com (feedback is welcome).

If you would like to speak/present, please send me an email to enrique dot ortiz at gmail dot com.

Also, we are planning on having a MobileMonday Austin event during SXSW Interactive on March 16… mark your calendars. Again, please refer to the MobileMonday website for info and dates.

Last but not least, if anyone is going to Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, let me know to meetup. For a pretty good list of parties during MWC see http://www.mobileslate.com/blog/2009-mobile-world-congress-party-list.

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Austinites -

The “Mobile Peer Awards” is to happen at Barcelona during Mobile World Congress (MWC). There are great mobile startups in Austin. It would be great if you register your startup, even if you will not attend MWC. I can do the registration for you if you cant; email me. We need Austin representation! It will be good for your company with some extra visibility, global visibility.

• Some info about the event
• Mobile Peer Awards page
• Signup page

Shoot me an email if you have any questions…

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The MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards are among the most influential events in the mobile industry and, with over 1000 attendants, the point of reference in startup innovation during the Mobile World Congress (Barcelona, February 16, 2009).

There are a number of cool mobile companies in Austin, and it would be great to have Austin representation!

If your company is ready, this will give you a big opportunity to present in front of investors, operators, media companies, and everyone else in the mobile value chain, press and influential bloggers and your peer entrepreneurs.

Visit the Peer Awards Homepage (http://www.mobilepeerawards.com) and register your startup under the *Austin* chapter.

I will be monitoring the list and serve as a liaison… If you have any questions, shoot me an email…

Sponsoring

If you would like to become a sponsor of MobileMonday Austin at the Peer Awards, please send me an email. In exchange your logo will be included on the Austin’s Peer Award page and will be mentioned at the peer awards event. The collected money will be used to send Austin representation and/or help a local startup make it to the event.

/C. Enrique Ortiz, MobileMonday Austin

A reminder that next Monday July 14th is our next Austin MobileMonday session.

A very interesting topic, come see Nikunj Mehta, tech lead for Oracle’s AtomDB project, talk about an emergent approach to mobile applications and browser-embedded databases, involving the use of the Atom publishing protocol for application programming as well as data synchronization, and areas of future work in off-line data for Web applications.

This event is sponsored by Oracle.

For more information see the MobileMonday Austin website.

Hope to see you there!

ceo

A very interesting topic, come see Nikunj Mehta, tech lead for Oracle’s AtomDB project, talk about an emergent approach to mobile applications and browser-embedded databases, involving the use of the Atom publishing protocol for application programming as well as data synchronization, and areas of future work in off-line data for Web applications.

This event is sponsored by Oracle.

Talk synopsis:

There is heavy latent demand for mobile applications and recent industry events have heightened interest in mobile Web applications. Mobile application developers face a number of inherent challenges of mobility such as form factor and user interaction. Besides these, they are also forced to deal with incidental issues such as platform fragmentation and unreliable connectivity. Various “Rich Internet Application” platforms are currently targeting these problems. Oracle, of these, is interested primarily in standards-based platforms, i.e., Web browsers and AJAX. Therefore, Oracle has developed a solution to the network unreliability problem in the context of Web browsers, Oracle’s AtomDB . This technology provides a transparent, local, read-write cache for application data that is synchronized with data sources using the same REST APIs used by AJAX applications to access their data. This talk will focus on the dual use of IETF’s Atom publishing protocol for application programming as well as data synchronization. He will also discuss areas of future work in off line data for Web applications.

Speaker bio:

Since his early days, Nikunj has been working in the crosshairs of mobile and Web as well as business and data. He is an entrepreneur at heart and an architect at work. Nikunj leads the AtomDB project at Oracle and helps shape Oracle’s strategy in distributed applications, mobile technology, and Web databases. He works in Oracle’s Database Advanced Development Group. His doctoral thesis focused on implementation primitives for distributed software architecture styles. He dons the colors of USC and University of Mumbai, both in computer science.

His blog is o-micron.blogspot.com

When: July 14th, 2008, 6 - 8 PM

Cost: Zero, nada, free! But seating is limited; please RSVP by sending an email to rsvp@austinwirelessalliance.org, indicating your name and affiliation

Where:

Oracle/Austin offices
9600 North MO-Pac
Seventh Floor
Austin, TX 78759
Main Phone: 512.671.5100
Main Fax: 512.671.5600

For more information see the MobileMonday Austin website.

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Dear MoMobilists -

I haven’t been able to organize a MobileMonday event for this month of June; my apologies. Between eZee inc. product development, go to market and investor-related stuff, plus family and other, I just have had next to zero time to organize something…

My apologies again and thanks for your understanding… Please stay tuned by registering to receive news –see MobileMonday Austin website and mailing list.

ceo

We had a great MobileMonday Austin event last night. Thanks to our sponsor Nokia. Thanks to the Austin Wireless Alliance for helping organize the event, and thanks to our speakers Dan Podwall (Nokia) and Michael Yuan (eZee inc) who presented on the topics of the Web RunTime for the S60, and on building multi-modal web applications. It was awesome. Thanks…

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Please note that next MobileMonday Austin session is next Monday, April 14th. Don Podwall (Nokia) will cover the Nokia Web Runtime and Widgets, and Dr. Michael Yuan (eZee inc) will cover Developing Multi-Modal Web Applications.

MOBILE MONDAY AUSTIN

Where: IC2 Institute, http://www.ic2.utexas.edu

Topic: The Nokia Web Runtime, Widgets, and about Developing multi-modal web applications

Abstracts:

The Nokia Web Runtime (Dan Podwall, Nokia)

Web Runtime (WRT) enables anyone with Web development and design skills to create exciting Internet experiences for mobile users in just hours or days. hether you want to provide a one-click interface to your Web service or add value by creating mashups of information from various sources, WRT makes it possible.

From a technical perspective, WRT adds a Web-application runtime environment to the popular Web Browser for S60, which enables S60 devices to run widgets. Like desktop widgets, WRT widgets are lightweight mobile applications developed using standards-based Web technologies, such as XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax. In fact, you can port desktop widgets to WRT with very little effort, and you can use your existing authoring tools to create and package your work.

When Nokia announced in April 2007 the addition of WRT to S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2, new opportunities opened up for delivering advanced mobile features and services. Grasp your opportunity today.

Develop multi-modal web applications for the iPhone, Nokia S60 and more - lessons from a real world project (Dr. Michael Yuan, eZee inc)

Making an iPhone-friendly version of your web site is all the rage these days. Google, Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn and many other high profile web sites all have iPhone-specific portals now. Developers who took initiative in developing those mobile web sites are reported to get big bonuses and promotions. In this presentation, veteran mobile web software developer Michael Yuan will discuss techniques you can immediately use to transform your existing web sites into a mobile-friendly site. He will go beyond the iPhone mania to cover how to make your site shine on Nokia S60, BlackBerry, Google Android, and many other smartphone platforms. A live demo, webclip2go.com, will be available to show case all the techniques discussed in the talk.

About the Speakers:

* Dan Podwall, Senior Architect at Nokia, C++ and Web Runtime

* Dr. Michael Yuan, Senior Developer and Mobility Researcher at eZee inc is an Austin-based technologist focusing on mobile and web applications. He is the author of 4 books, including one of the all time best selling books on mobile app development: “Enterprise J2ME” (Prentice Hall), as well as “Nokia Smartphone Hacks” (O’Reilly). Michael is an open source enthusiast and a code committer in high profile open source projects such as JBoss and Mozilla. Michael is currently a developer at eZee inc working on the next generation mobile marketing platform.

Cost: Cost is free, zero, nada, but seating is limited, please RSVP.

R.S.V.P. Please RSVP by sending an email to rsvp@austinwirelessalliance.org indicating your name and affiliation.

Refreshments will be served, courtesy of Nokia.

We had a great MobileMonday Austin event last night. I want to thank the speakers David Gill (Nielsen Mobile), James Pearce (dotMobi), Brian Fling (BlueFlavor), and Chris Moisan (Taptu).

And thank you to our sponsors dotMobi and the Austin Wireless Alliance.

We had guest attendees from out of town who were attending SXSW Interactive, and many local first timers, and the audience enjoyed the event very much. I am very happy how things turned out.

We’ll try to have another MoMo Austin event next year during SXSW Interactive. Stay tuned….

Our next MobileMonday Austin event is scheduled for April 14th. Join our mailing list.

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