Mobile 2.0 Wrapup
Yesterday was the Mobile 2.0 event I helped to organize in San Francisco. This was our second time running the event, and I think we learned a lot. This year the event flowed a lot better. Our policy of not allowing slides when doing panel introductions kept things moving along a lot better and kept the audience much more interested. Here’s a bunch of resources from the event:
- We had a Jaiku channel going for discussion during the event.
- Rudy created a Flickr group and has posted a Mobile 2.0 wrapup of his own.
- Richard MacManus (who I somehow managed to miss meeting yet again) posted a few items live:
- Oliver posted live on blognation, and provides a summary of the launchpad companies.
- Barbara Ballard posted about how many in the audience were using laptops.
- Tony Fish pointed out the Mobile Web 2.0 list of resources setup in netvibes.
- Kelly Goto has a detailed post from the fireside chat.
- A few people pointed to the Forum Oxford discussion groups, which you can sign up to for free, just use ‘forumoxford’ as the … something. I signed up a while ago, so I forget how the registration process works. But you can do it even if you’re not in courses. It’s a discussion group that pulls in a lot of great minds.
- Daniel Graff gave a fantastic compelling demo of Kyte.tv, something I’ll have to play around with for Mobile Monday events.
- Dennis from WAPReview has an amazing writeup covering absolutely everything top to bottom.
- Rob Tiffany posted about the lack of mentions of WinMo and CEO sums up why that is: focus shifting from platforms to applications. I think it’s cute that Rob thinks the reason there was no mention of WinMo is because we’re undereducated about it. No, I know what WinMo does, I just don’t care. Happy to talk about what MS can do to become relevant again in this space though.
- Atakan Cetinsoy from MyStrands posted his take on participating in the disruptive business models panel.
- Russ McGuire from the fireside chat posted his take on the mobile internet versus mobility, pointing out that mobility is not just making the internet mobile.
Some highlights of the day:
- Voytek Siewierski saying he was looking for companies that would destroy the business models the operators have, that woke everyone up right after lunch.
- Pat McVeigh’s comment that “Usability is the ultimate enabler.” He was also another big fan of open source, which I was very happy to see. And believes the browser is going to be the way forward for mobile applications.
- Russ Daniels made a number of points about use of mobility and generally just connectivity in the enterprise. There was a lot of commentary about the enterprise still being very much untapped. In particular Russ made some comments about the presence of wifi networks during a business meeting pretty much meaning you could read email while being bored. The presence of that network should facilitate greater productivity and cooperation during the meeting, but the tools that support that are very sparse.
- The point that Tomi made about Flirtomatic now being one of Britains leading florists. They allow sending virtual roses between users, and the numbers are staggering. Selling virtual goods within their service was enough that they were able to remove the subscription fee. Great success story.
- The emerging technologies panel I participated in was fantastic, it was great having a dedicated hour to hash out some ideas with that group. The overall themes were that open platforms, open tools, and open APIs have been a lot of what’s driving the growth so far, and still seems like the best way forward.
- Rudy gave a fantastic intro, including a slide summarizing Google’s move into mobile that he collaborated on with and has opened for further refinement
October 16th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
[...] Mike Rowehl, wrapped up his experiences as an organizer, panelist and observer at This Is Mobility. [...]
October 17th, 2007 at 9:19 am
The event was very good congratulations. My only comment is that some of the demos were done on Nokia Series 60 OS. Totally irrelevant in the US market.
I wonder why the US VC’s would fund such companies that have no hope for traction in the US and probably are late in other more advance markets in the world? Some of the larger markets for Nokia are really handsets that have almost no capabilities.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:12 am
[...] This is Mike Rowehl, moderator of the Beyond Mobile 2.0 panel at >Play this year. I just finished up helping out to organize an event in San Francisco called Mobile 2.0 as well, what fantastic timing! One of the big themes from across the industry that came out at the event was that open platforms and public APIs are having the same kind of impact on mobile as they’ve had on the web. For some more details about the event, I have a post on my personal blog linking to Mobile 2.0 related stories. [...]
October 17th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
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October 19th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
[...] started the week with Mobile 2.0. Mike Rowehl posted a great summary of that event with lots of links to coverage all over the Web which I won’t replicate here. [...]
October 24th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
[...] at the discussions following last week’s Mobile 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Mike Rowehl compiled already a lot of reactions on the event, I added my impressions and more links in my Mobile 2.0 Wrapup, some discussions continue on [...]
November 6th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
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November 6th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
[...] at the discussions following last week’s Mobile 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Mike Rowehl compiled already a lot of reactions on the event, I added my impressions and more links in my Mobile 2.0 Wrapup, some discussions continue on [...]