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Here below an interactive screen demo of partyStrands application taken at La Botellita - Serrano in Madrid last Thursday.

see who/what is playing
incoming user request (through SMS) influencing music with artist (x)
recommendations of similar style music
users in the waiting queue
another incoming influencing music request
user chat screen (cut)

Below a screenshot of the BAR page at the partyStrands […]

Richard MacManus, one of my favourite daily reads on Next Generation Web Technology on his popular blog Read/Write Web wrote a post today on a corporate blogging project he’s co-running with The Rights Marketing Company. Called Micro Media Corp, it’s a corporate blogging and podcasting program that aims to give business people insights into the […]

Nokia to unveil the Nserie Music Collection. From Darla’s blog:
As you can see, the N73 and N70’s have been made over in a new color… black is back! The N91 gets an external and internal make-over. Also dressed in black, the new N91 has upgraded its HD from 4gb to 8gb, hence the […]

This weeks’ Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Matthew Miller at The Mobile Gadgeteer from Tech Blogs on ZDNet. Great edition, well done Matthew! Don’t miss the Carnival of the Mobilists #46.

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Sometimes one discovers blogs like rare pearls, usually not very known, a bit tucked away between the feeds of our information forest, yet often refreshing, thought-provoking, and stimulating our mobility senses. I stumbled a couple of times upon Yasmine’s blog while “re-searching” on augmented reality and mobility subjects.
I got intrigued by her “my body is […]

I have mentioned it before here, here, here, and here (sorry, can’t help it!) so faithfull m-trends readers shoud know by now that podcasts are one of my favourite mobile applications.
I could easily imagine it would be like that before I ever heard one for real on a mobile phone. Now that I have the […]

Oliver Starr’s got a thorough writeup of the latest edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists over at MobileCrunch. Check it out for the week’s best blogging about mobile. Check my review of a partyStrands beta-party in Madrid last week at the just launched partyStrands blog.
And here some pictures from host Caroline Lewko from the […]

As you might know, I’m organising and programming the Mobile Monday Barcelona events together with Cristina Meló, and Carles Fereiro from Barcelona Media. Martin Tantow, who initiated the event with me, left to Madrid for a new job so we’ll be missing him as of now.
After a summer break it’s time to announce the […]

Mark Vanderbeeken makes a good point in his Where to study experience design? at - always excellent - Putting people first blog:
Experience design has become a hot industry theme. Companies are looking to hire experience designers. New consultancies devoted to experience design are being founded nearly every day. Major industry players like Apple, Microsoft, Nokia […]

The world of mobile services finally opens up for girls in France… Sabine Allaeys launches a new part of her unique universe for Fashionable girls. I wrote about her and MiniFizz before here and here. I have always been a fan of Sabine’s attractive and original designs and the way she imagines and develops the […]