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MobileMonday Barcelona anounced the first series of finalists for this years MobileMonday Global Peer Awards.
The Global Peer Awards finalists are best-in-breed companies who have demonstrated exceptionally innovative mobile technologies, services and concepts. Most finalists have reached this point by prevailing in a local selection process organized at the local MoMo chapter level.
Here are the […]

In an ideal world access to the Internet would be ubiquitous and instantaneous. We’ve come quite far in the past couple of years and Internet applications on mobile phones usually work quite well as long as the network connection is stable. This is usually the case at home, in a hotel room, at work, while […]

On May 29-30 you can join me in Girona for a LAB on MEDIA and Human Experience, organised by the Club of Amsterdam. I will join this “immersed experience of a Do-Tank” together with Laurence Desarzens, urban communicator at beatmap.com, Paul F.M.J. Verschure, ICREA research professor at the Technology Department of the University Pompeu […]

Hommage à l’Abbé Pierre…
Sometimes the guilt is too big… When such a great man leaves us, how can we not assess the world we build and the fights we choose? There are certainly more important things in life than owning the latest gadget! But here, to some, the battle seems unequal… To who is always […]

I must be one of those ‘kinetic elitists’ described by Yasmine in an earlier post. I don’t like the word elitist a lot and I also haven’t received a lot of airport privileges yet. A desk, a chair and a power socket would already suffice while waiting for a plane. In the past two weeks […]

Xen Mendelsohn hosts the 59th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists at Xellular Identity. Check it out, as always, probably the best in blog writing on mobility issues from last week, summarized for you in one blogpost. Great job, Xen and thanks for the MobileSunday Barcelona and MoMo Global Peer Awards 2007 reminders!

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Last year, as a starter for 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Stuart Mudie came up with the idea to get together with some other mobile bloggers. We hadn’t decided on a place to meet until one week before the event, since we wanted to consider any good suggestion for a cool bar…
Stuart just anounced he […]

Following the response and feedback I got on the “Understanding Mobile 2.0” article I wrote at Read/WriteWeb a couple of weeks ago, I created a wiki space to start categorizing the so-called Mobile 2.0 companies.
You can acces the directory at mobile2companies.com.
I decided to use a wiki tool, called Wepaint, so companies can add their own […]

The term has been coined by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, himself a “kinetic elite”, to describe a certain kind of population on the move, the new aristocrats of the mobile world, these who earn bonus points and airport privileges (like going faster through the customs) because also they travel extensively…
I have my students read […]

In his earlier post Rudy commented on Winksite and Shotcode working together for a better mobile user experience. Winksite now includes Shotcode and QR-Codes on it’s web pages which lists blogs and other web sites that use their service to create a mobile friendly version of their content.
Users browsing Winksite on their PC to search […]