It Was A Very Good Year

With only a couple of hours to go in 2008, I’m writing this post to close a very good year and write down some stats for future  personal reference. Most of the year I did only those things that I do well and/or am passionate about and do them with people I love & respect, can’t ask for a lot more these days

Here’s a brief overview:

In 2008, with dotopen, I reviewed some 500 startups in mobile for event participation selections, as a jury member and for clients. We advised numerous startups helping them with strategic positioning within the global mobile ecosystem.

“Mobile 2.0″ passed a million entries in Google now and that means a lot to me.

Together with Deisi & Carles at dotopen, we organised 13 MobileMondays in Barcelona, Sevilla and Madrid. We also organised some bigger events such as the MobileMonday Peer Awards, Mobile Sunday Barcelona and the Mobile Jam Session (with Caroline Lewko) in February during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We contributed as well to the Mobile Jam Sessions in Las Vegas and San Francisco.

Some of the other highlights of the year were definately Mobile 2.0 Europe in June in Barcelona and in November in San Francisco. Furthermore in Silicon Valley I attended Seedcamp in the Valley and Mobile Tech for Social Change barcamp organised by Daniel Appelquist and Katrin Verclas at Google.org offices. Also attended – and still one of the best startup events around – Under The Radar – Mobility event in Mountain View I attended for a 3rd year in a row. Another highlight was definately the Vodafone Mobile Clicks for which I also participated as a jury member. It was very interesting evaluating the Dutch startups and it was great fun in Amsterdam with the other jury members and at PICNIC.

I presented at some really GREAT events, such as:

Plugg, Brussels – view my Mobile 2.0 presentation

Over The Air, London – view my Mobile 2.0 for developers presentation

MobileMonday Amsterdam (most probably the BEST MobileMonday around these days!) – view my 15 Tips to Create Value for Mobile presentation

Digital Leaders Forum in Seoul, Korea – view my Mobile Digital Storytelling presentation

PICNIC (Vodafone Mobile Clicks), Amsterdam – view my Mobile Startup Case Studies presentation

Future of Mobile, London – view my Future of Mobile presentation

Together these presentatons got + 55.000 views this year on Slideshare, you can view all my presentations here.

In 2008, I took 33 trips to 14 cities in 2008. You can view my 2008 trips here on Dopplr.

I created some 37 Flickr Sets of my travels around in 2008, I created one specially for you titled “Wonderful People in 2008” with most of all the nice people I met during 2008.

So that’s about it in a nutshell. What to expect for 2009? It’s going to be another interesting year for mobile for sure, shaky for some but determinent for others. I’ll write up my predictions for 2009 next week after a short break.

I wish a very happy new year to all my friends, collegues, twitter followers and blog readers. Looking forward to catch up with you all again in 2009!

Please mark already your calendar for new editions of our events (currently confirmed in 2009):

February 15 – Mobile Sunday Barcelona (venue to be confirmed soon)

February 16 – Mobile Peer Awards 09

June 17-18-19 – Mobile 2.0 Europe (a day for developers, a day for startups and a day for business)