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Happy Holidays — Mobile Monday Austin Dec 2012 Social

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Happy Holidays!!!

Mobile continues to thrive in 2012 and we in the industry look forward to another prosperous year. As you are running around to make final deadlines, socialize and prepare for the holidays, come take a little break and join your fellow MoMo folks to celebrate. The Austin Mobile Monday crew would like you to join us for an impromptu informal holiday gathering at the Driskill, Monday December 17th in the bar/lounge from 6-8pm. We will have some apps and cocktails to share some holiday cheer. Libations and spaces are limited, so please RSVP by this Friday 12/14.

See you all at the event!

Mobile Monday Austin (Oct 22, 2012) – Mobile & Cloud

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Join us for our October 2012 Mobile Monday Austin meeting, at the very cool Capital Factory offices in downtown Austin.

We are having a number of cool companies come talk about “Mobile and Cloud“:

* Cloudbees — CloudBees Platform as a Service (PaaS) architecture provides a powerful foundation for cloud development and deployment services.

* Twilio – provider of Cloud platform for Communications – APIs for Voice, VoIP and Text …

* Phunware – provider of branded mobile experiencesand mobile application infrastructure.

The speakers will cover related topics including using cloud-based Jenkins to build and test Android and iOS apps, using the Twillio APIs, and leveraging the cloud to end the native vs. html5 debate – introducing Mobile as a Service.

It is going to be a fun topic and event.

When: Oct 22, 2012
Time: 6-8:30pm
Where: Capital Factory
Cost: free
Drinks and pizza will be served

For information and headcount purposes, please visit & RSVP: http://momoaustinoct2012.eventbrite.com/

See you all there….

The Eternal Debate — MoMo London Event on HTML5 v.s. Native (Sept 2012)

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Native vs. Web
Image Source: Mobile App Testing Blog

Seems that I missed a very good debate. I just read a blog on MoMo London event on HTML5 v.s. Native.

Seems like an eternal debate.

Today in 2012, I am still amazed we still are debating this and have not been able to address this. This is really a ~10 year old debate, still driven by the exact same issues and pros/cons as before — centralized vs. not, cross-platform vs. not, maintainability and fragmentation, code-reusability or not, better user experience vs. not, performance, security, access to device APIs vs. not, thin vs. thick, app discovery, etc. etc. etc.

We can argue the basics are here (HTML5, CSS3 and JS-and-related frameworks), but creating great mobile webapps with great user experiences is today only possible by a few; in other words, is a niche area. (Not even Facebook was able to pull it off, right?).

The day the “common mobile developer” is able to create great mobile webapps with ease, is the day this debate will end.

Today still, “user experience” (driven by network latency, app richness, toolsets, adoption by big brands) is best maximized on mobile native. Today still we have to talk about classes of mobile applications (again driven by network, richness, performance, storage, toolsets, maintainability, security, cost of one vs. other, etc) — then decide what is better suited — native vs. web on mobile.

How much longer will it take settle out this debate? 3 years? 5 years? 10 years? Right now I say around five years — I wish I am wrong. But does it really matter?

In the meantime, successful mobile developers redefine the meaning of “full stack developers”; successful mobile developers must be “End-to-end, Cross-platform, Full Stack Developers” — this is a lot of complex ground to cover.

Related to this see “The biggest mistake we made as a company was not investing enough on native.” — Zuckerberg (2012).

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Mobile Monday Austin | Nokia USA Tour visits Austin – Apr 30, 2012

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Mobile Monday Austin

Please join us April 30 for our next event when Nokia visits Austin for its “Nokia Lumia USA Tour”

WHEN: April 30, 6-9pm
WHERE: Buffalo Billiards, 201 E. 6th St.
WHO: Mobile Monday Austin & Nokia

Please RSVP at Eventbrite: http://momoaustinapr2012.eventbrite.com/

If you have a Windows Phone application, Nokia Developer wants to see your app – visit http://www.mobilemondayaustin.com for more information.

Drinks and appetizers will be served. Nokia is giving away 2 Nokia Lumia 800′s, plus other! For more information, visit the Mobile Monday Austin website.

Also see our new Facebook Page!

See you there…

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Mobile Monday Austin, Mobile Gaming – Sept 19, sponsored by Nokia

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A reminder that our next Mobile Monday Austin event is on September 19, 2011. The topic is Mobile Gaming and the event is sponsored by Nokia.

Date: Monday, September 19, 2011
Time: 6-9pm
Location: Buffalo Billiards, 201 E. 6th St.
Cost: FREE, food and drinks will be served

Please join us on Monday, September 19 for the next Mobile Monday Austin session. We’ll be discussing mobile gaming, and the latest trends and technologies in this exciting and active area of the mobile industry.

We’ll start gathering at 6pm for free drinks and some appetizers, and the session will begin at 7pm. Come out to meet other members of the Austin mobile community, and to hear about:

  • the latest research in mobile gaming from Nielsen, with David Gill
  • what’s hot in the Austin game developer community, from American-Statesman reporter Brian Gaar
  • an update from Nokia and Microsoft on Windows Phone 7, and what it holds for game developers
  • presentations from local game developers on their latest and coolest work

Please RSVP below to reserve your spot! Visit Mobile Monday Austin website.

If you are an Austin-area game developer and would like to present, please contact Carlo Longino, carlo at mobilemondayaustin dot com, or C. Enrique Ortiz, eortiz at mobilemondayaustin dot com.

Thanks to our sponsor, Nokia!

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MobileMonday Austin | April 4, 2011 | Mobile Enterprise Apps Demo Night

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Our next event is on Monday, April 04, 2011 at Buffalo Billiards…

Please Register at: http://momoaustin-040411.eventbrite.com/

Please arrive by 5:30 PM as we will begin 6:00pm – 8:00 PM.

This is the first of a five-city tour sponsored by Cisco and MobileMonday Americas. The Enterprise App Demo Night events begin in Austin, TX on April 4th, followed by San Francisco, CA & Boston, MA on April 11th, Seattle, WA on April 18th and New York City, NY on April 25th.

Event is FREE. Food/drinks will be served.

We are having a number of cool companies present; see you at the event!

Raffle! Courtesy of Breaking Development: We are giving away a pass ($1000+ value) to the Breaking Development mobile design & development conference in Dallas on April 11-12; great lineup of speakers. Recommended conference for those in mobile web app development!

Thanks to our Sponsor Cisco!

Please Register at: http://momoaustin-040411.eventbrite.com/

MobileMonday/AppCircus Austin Showcase @ TWS 2010 – And the Winner Is…

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We had a wonderful showcase at the Texas Wireless Summit 2010, with 12 companies participating:

Great interactions and demos all across…

The companies were judged based on application originality, creativity and innovation as well as business model, validity and execution. A Runner up and 1st place were chosen:

(Runner up) — QRANK
(1st place) — Famigo Games

Congratulations to Famigo Games, winner of the 2010 MobileMonday/AppCircus Showcase and QRANK…

We had a well rounded set of cool companies that included mobile gaming, fitness, tab and POS management, social, secure health, education, brand management and call management. It was awesome to have them participate and see the mobile startups that are brewing up in Austin… Congrats to All!

Thanks to the MobileMonday Austin, AppCircus and the Austin Technology Incubator staff and our sponsor Bracewell & Giuliani LLP.

Related to this see Texas Wireless Summit Showcases Austin as Premier Wireless Innovation Hub (ATI blog).