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Silicon Valley: 6/1 Event Recap: Slides and Photos

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Silicon Valley: Mobile Monday on MobileDeveloper.tv

Check out this video from MobileDeveloper.tv. It’s a nice overview of our last location-aware app demo night in San Francisco on 5/4/09, and a preview of what you’ll see at our next event on 6/1 in Palo Alto. 

http://www.mobiledeveloper.tv/2009/05/27/episode-1-mobile-monday-silicon-valley/

Silicon Valley: 6/1 Event: Location-Aware App Demos Round 2

We’re holding the second Mobile Monday Silicon Valley location-aware app demo night on Monday, June 1st in Palo Alto. This event its open bar is sponsored by Skyhook Wireless and AT&T. 

The following apps will be presented:

Nokia Point and Find
Skout
Abaqus
GeoVector
GasBag
EveryTrail & Wherester
Boorah
Zhiing

Details

All of the participants in this Mobile Mobile Monday event will be invited to the AT&T Developer night in downtown San Francisco on June 3rd - free Spanish food and drink will be provided.

Location: Garden Court Hotel

Date: Monday, June 1. Doors at 6:30, event starts at 7pm.

Cost: Free - but registration is required to attend. Click here to register: http://momosvjune09.eventbrite.com/

Cocktails: Provided

Parking: Complimentary Valet

Silicon Valley: 5/4 Event: Location-Aware App Demos

Join us on Monday, May 4th in San Francisco for a Mobile Monday Silicon Valley demo night of location-aware apps. This event its open bar is sponsored by Skyhook Wireless.

The following apps will be presented:

Carr Matey
Rub2Grub
Voila
Geoterrestrial
Seek and Spell
zKatter
Wertago

Location: Omni San Francisco

Date: Monday, May 4. Doors at 6:30, event starts at 7pm.

Cost: Free - but registration is required to attend. Click here to register: http://momosvmay09.eventbrite.com/

Cocktails: Provided

Parking:$25ish to valet, or try St. Mary’s Garage a few blocks away. Nearest BART is Montgomery.

We are grateful to our generous sponsor, Skyhook Wireless.

Another location-aware app demo night will follow in June!

Silicon Valley: December 2008 Silicon Valley Mobile Monday

The December Silicon Valley Mobile Monday is going to take place at Yahoo on December 1st:

• What: December 2008 Mobile Monday (Yahoo! Blueprint)
• When: December 1st, 2008 7:00pm
• Where: Yahoo! Sunnyvale, URLs Cafe Building C, 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale CA 94089
• Who: Anyone interested in mobility
• Cost: Nothing! (but please sign up on Eventbrite)

Markus gave a great presentation about Blueprint at Mobile 2.0, Enrique from MoMo Austin just published a tutorial focused on it, and Marc Davis has been wanting to show off more of the details at some point. During the “lull” between the holiday breaks things are normally much slower for me at work and I have some time to play with some of the cool stuff I’ve had on the back burner for months. I know a bunch of you are in similar situations. Blueprint is one of those for me, so December should be a great time for a technical overview of building mobile services with Yahoo’s new platform.

Some relavant links for you all:

• The Blueprint home page
• Enrique’s tutorial
• The Yahoo mobile developer blog

Thanks to Mario Tapia for setting up the topic and finding us space at Yahoo! He does need an attendee list for security however, so please make sure you sign up at Eventbrite just so that we have a list to hand over. Hope to see you all there!

- Mike

Silicon Valley: October 2008 – Data Management for Mobile Web Apps

Essential details for the October Mobile Monday:

• What: October 2008 Mobile Monday (Data Management for Mobile Web Apps)
• When: October 6th, 2008 7:00pm
• Where: Oracle Campus, 100 Oracle Parkway, Room 104, Redwood City, CA, 94065
• Who: Anyone interested in mobility
• Cost: Nothing!

There are a few different efforts aimed at making mobile web apps work offline. Gears already has a Windows Mobile version and is looking to expand, the OMTP BONDI effort is aiming to standardize mobile web apps and mix in persistent storage in the process, and WebKit has implemented the client side database storage section of the HTML5 spec. I learned about another effort from Oracle called AtomDB from CEO when he did an Austin MoMo on the topic. And then Gregory pointed me at Nikunj after running into him at a conference. And then I ran into Nikunj myself at Mobile Web Megatrends in Berkeley last month, and he’s a wellspring of knowledge about building intermittently connected web applications for mobile devices. I decided to take Enrique and Gregory’s advice and invite him to present at MoMo.

AtomDB is a method for delivering intermittently connected web applications to mobile devices by building on top of existing feed technologies (the Atom protocol) and builds on top of the caching semantics already built into and mature in the HTTP standards (the operations are PUT, POST, GET, DELETE, just as in any other web app). For some advance details about the discussion check out this thread on the W3C mailing list. Should be a particularly timely and relevant discussion, hope to see you all there!

- Mike

Silicon Valley: Bad Timing for Sept – No MoMo, Plenty of Other Stuff

I’ve got a bunch of emails from folks asking if there’s going to be a September MoMo. I feel bad skipping it after having just skipped August. But the timing just doesn’t work out. Check this out:

• Monday Sept 1st is apparently something called a “holiday”. Named Labor Day, but no one goes into work for it. Very misleading.
• Sept 8th is Ajit’s Mobile Web Megatrends, where I’m going to be giving a presentation on the role of open source in mobile. I know lots of other folks in the area are already committed to this as well.
• Sept 10th thru 12th is CTIA at Moscone, which would be disruptive enough even if it weren’t local cause everyone syncs product releases to it. But is doubly disruptive cause even the folks not prepping for it are going to have a bunch of days eaten with meetings cause everyone is in town.
• Sept 18th is the Mobilize 08 conference at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco

Do you really need another event to attend? You know you’re just looking for another excuse to avoid getting work done ;-)

Every one of those events will have great info and a critical mass of the decision makers and practitioners necessary to make it a successful outing. Throwing another meeting into the mix would just peel off a percentage of attendance from other events and end up decreasing the value on the whole. I like to think of Mobile Monday as more respectful of the environment, standing up and making some noise when we need to, and letting things roll along on their own when they’re already doing well.

We’ll definitely be back October with a business themed event. And Daniel, Gregory, Rudy, Peter and I are cranking away on the lineup and setup for the next Mobile 2.0 conference on Nov 3rd (details should be available soon). So no, we’re not going away. I haven’t given up, something I seem to be getting asked a lot in emails. I just want to make sure that each and every event is quality and has a purpose. A bunch of dedicated people give up a big chunk of their Monday evening to attend, I want them to always come away from the events feeling they spent their time wisely.

- Mike

Silicon Valley: July 2008 Meeting Details

We’re back for July!!! Coming fresh off a three day 4th of July weekend everyone should be energetic and revitalized. Here are the essential details for the meeting:

• What: July 2008 Mobile Monday (Metrics and Analytics)
• When: July 7th, 2008 7:00pm
• Where: Microsoft SF Campus, 835 Market St, 7th floor, San Francisco, CA 94103
• Who: Anyone interested in mobility
• Cost: Nothing!

There’s been a lot of talk about analytics for mobile properties, and more numbers are making it out into public forums for wider scrutiny. We’ll hear from a few different folks helping to make that happen: AdMob will give a demo of their new analytics offering, Opera will share some about the motivation and learning that’s come from the State of the Mobile Web Report. We’ll also have a panel discussion moderated by Matt Marshall from VentureBeat. The goal is to try to pull some overall understanding of how the mobile web is progressing, and what a publisher can do to understand their position and role in the market as a whole.

The folks from VentureBeat helped me put together the plan for this month’s meeting and worked out the details for the meeting space. They have a conference of their own coming up at the end of July that looks like it should be fantastic. I already posted to my personal blog about it, but here’s some info about the conference directly from them:

MobileBeat2008 is a conference, July 24, that will explore new opportunities emerging in the mobile industry, presented by VentureBeat. With new entrants such as the 3G iPhone and its slick browser, and Google’s open Android project, together with the emerging openness among the carriers, there’s never been as much opportunity for innovation – and for making money.

Speakers include Rich Miner, of Google’s Android project, to Matt Murphy, of the iFund; also speaking are principals from the newly announced RIM (Blackberry) Fund, Verizon, Nokia, Loopt, AdMob, Accel Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and many more. Tickets are limited and going fast, so go to amiando.com/mobilebeat2008 to register or mobilebeat2008.com to learn more.

Silicon Valley: May 2008 Meeting Details

We have something a bit different planned for the May event this year. Instead of a set of presentations we’re going to have a panel discussion focused on issues commonly faced when running a mobile business. Details:

• What: May 2008 Mobile Monday (Running Your Mobile Business)
• When: May 5th, 2008 7:00pm
• Where: Microsoft SV Campus, 1065 La Avenida St. Building 1, Mountain View, CA 94043
• Who: Anyone interested in mobility
• Cost: Nothing!

This should serve as a good preview of the kinds of topics we’re going to be hitting at the Mobile 2.0 event this year. We’re bringing together a bunch of folks who have been working in and involved with the industry for a long time to help “map the minefield” that is doing business in the mobile ecosystem. How do you make the decisions around how to bring your service to market? Who are all the players that get involved and how do you handle them? As well as some case studies from past and present companies that we can have discussions around. Thanks to the organizers of the event, who we’ll be hearing from the day of:

• Gregory Gorman
• Greg Franklin
• Jason Devitt
• Peter Vesterbacka

And many thanks to Microsoft for providing the meeting space and food. Hope to see you all there! - Mike