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Archive for December, 2007

Happy 2008!

0 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele December 31st, 2007 in mobile 2.0

I wanted to thank my readers, collegues, online buddies and friends for sharing some great moments with me this year. Some of you I just met but already left an impression, and others I enjoyed working together on innovative projects and events, or just exchanged opinion on the mobile phone and its interaction between people […]

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Kyte announces Series B

0 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele December 20th, 2007 in Social Media, Operators, web 2.0, Announcements, Mashup, User-Experience, Usability, mobile 2.0, Trends, Innovation, Mobile Video, Startups, Nokia, iPhone, Mobile TV

One of my favorite startups Kyte just announced it has raised $15 million in a second round of funding. The round was led by Telefónica, the world’s fourth largest global telecommunications firm, with Nokia Growth Partners, the global private equity and venture capital management arm of Nokia, and DoCoMo Capital, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. […]

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Off To LeWeb3

0 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele December 7th, 2007 in mobile 2.0

I’m off to Brussels this weekend, then Paris for the much awaited LeWeb3 conference. I’m particulary interested in the Start-Up Competition and the Workshop track including a session on Mobile and Web convergence, though the whole conference has so much quality to offer, I have to figure out still what I don’t want to miss […]

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Mobile World Congress Side Events

1 Comment Published by Rudy De Waele December 7th, 2007 in Carnival Of The Mobilists, Social Media, 3GSM, Mobile Events, MobileMonday, mobile 2.0, Mobile Monday, Innovation, Startups, Peer Awards 2007, MobileSunday, Events

Many readers have been contacting me regarding interesting side events during the Mobile World Congress (formerly known as 3GSM) from February 11-15 here in Barcelona. There’s too much happening in too few days - as usual - I’m working on a couple of networking parties involving many blogger friends and mobile value chain industry […]

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Mobile Social Media

2 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele December 5th, 2007 in Social Media, Operators, web 2.0, Mobile Events, MobileMonday, Mobile RSS, mobile 2.0, Mobile Monday, Innovation, Startups, Events

After december’s MobileMonday Barcelona event on Location-Based Services, the next MobileMonday Madrid event of December 17 covers Mobile Social Media.
Social Media has gone mainstream this year with popular sites such as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Flickr to only name the most popular. Social Media is the catalyst to the democratization of content publishing, transforming […]

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Another Series B round for MyStrands

2 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele December 4th, 2007 in Mobile Apps, web 2.0, Announcements, mobile 2.0, partyStrands, Innovation, Spanish Startups, Startups, Convergence

MyStrands has secured $24 million in its Series B2 round of funding. Spanish bank BBVA led the funding along with existing investor Debaeque. The last round of funding closed in June at $25 million, bringing the total capital raised to date to $55 million. You can read the full details of the anouncement at […]

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Dopplr goes Mobile

9 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele December 2nd, 2007 in Social Media, Mobile Web, Mobile Lifestyle, Announcements, LBS, mobile 2.0, Startups, Location-Based

Dopplr will announce their mobile site at Nokia World on Tuesday. I had a chance to preview dopplr mobile. The future location-awareness service is following its natural curse also on the mobile phone: simple, easy to use and above all useful!
On Dopplr Mobile - m.dopplr.com - I can easily add a trip, see where my […]

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Cathing up with the Mobilists

0 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele December 2nd, 2007 in Carnival Of The Mobilists, mobile 2.0

Since my last contribution to the Carnival of the Mobilists last month, the carnival reached its #100 edition, hosted by Abhishek Tiwari in Santa Cruz, CA. Kudos to Russell and Carlo at Mobhappy and Judy and all mobilists around for keeping this weekly celebration of the best writing about mobile from around the world a […]

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