My blogging rhythm the last weeks must have been as slow as Miles Davis‘ cool jazz tempo in the fifties. Not to be understood in the negative sense of ‘coolness’ of course, because those records are really great!
The reason is that I have started working on (probably) some of the most exciting projects currently in mobile: Admob and MusicStrands. Besides initiating Mobile Monday Barcelona recently, I also moved with Gotomedia to new offices in the famous Estació de França train station in Barcelona. Gotomedia, led by Kelly Goto, will be partnering with research partners Barcelona Media, which has ties to Pompeu Fabra University to engage in global mobile research. Check also the gotomobile blog to stay updated on results and mobile web issues.
I started helping Russell Buckley with business development for AdMob in Spain and other EU countries. It has been great working with him and learn more on mobile advertising and the mobile web in general. AdMob, launched in January this year by Omar Hamoui, passed last weekend a staggering 50 million ad views (!) Check out Russell’s promotion he does to celebrate the 50m ad views so far. Nice to know also is that Mike Rowehl, you might know from his This is Mobility blog, is currently working as an engineer at AdMob. Mike runs also the Mobile Monday Silicon Valley meetings with Russell Beattie (now at Yahoo!).
The other exciting project I started working on recently is MyStrands (also known as MusicStrands). They just launched a new project that touches probably all sectors I worked in before and of which (to me) the combination has tons of opportunities for the future… Music, Mobile, Internet and … (the next part I will have to explain you soon here 
You can read part of the story how we got to eachother here, just know that this article was written completely independent before I got in touch with MyStrands people. Don’t expect too many changes in writing style on MyStrands because I just love this project!
As far as m-trends.org is concerned, it’s going to be business as usual. I will continue to write in my own style and rhythm on projects I work on and report on trends, innovations and experiences of todays’ mobile media lifestyle.
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[...] Another practical use, specially for business people is the PDF Viewer with presentation possibilities, ideally for any powerpoint or keynote presentation to pdf and be viewed on the device (picture right), it’s great in person to person meetings, the screen quality is just so great. Adding some more functionality here would be realy usefull for people like me. If you own or buy a N800 now there’s a 1 month free subscription offer to use the Rhapsody audio/video streaming subscription service. Nokia and Real have teamed up to release a firmware update that adds Rhapsody support to the N800. I tried it out and I must say it works fine as on online subscription service: great artists and songs collection to choose from and very easy use to create your own playlists. I created a playlist with some of my favorite Motown music in a minute (see below), the sound quality of the device is quite impressvie too. The only thing here is that using Rhapsody is a great service to use as long as you have an good connection, meanwhile I prefer the MyStrands Social Player that works with the music I have on my device, hopefully soon available for the N800 too (disclosure here) [...]
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