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Tomorrow I’m participating as part of the technical committee at the startup 2.0 event during the bdigital Global Congress in Barcelona. Startup 2.0 is a non-profit event to promote the entrepeneurial spirit in Europe, organised by José A. del Moral, Miguel Cuesta, Jesús Monléon and Carlos Trenchs.
The jury composed of Loic Le Meur, […]

After lengthy review by the panel of independent judges (including myself - see below), Marek just announced the short-lists for 2008 MEX Mobile User Experience Awards. The winners will be officially announced at a special evening reception in London on 27th May, the opening night of the 4th annual MEX conference.
Commercial category
- Taptu
- Zeemote
- Mobyko
- […]

One of my favorite conferences last year, the MEX Mobile User Experience Conference, has published its agenda for this years’ conference on May 27-28 in London. Check the agenda and speaker list for full details.
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The conference helps executives to gain […]

Maybe a bit unnoticed in blogland during the Eastern Holidays but for the ones who missed it: MyStrands Social Player (download here) has won the Mobile Rules! Award 2008 as the Best Multimedia Application!! Mobile Rules! competition is the world’s leading awards for innovative mobile business plans and cuttin-edge applications services and technologies from developers […]

If you hadn’t heard or read about it yet, the 2008 MobileMondy Peer Awards recognized 27 companies from 18 countries at its annual awards event held at Espacio Movistar facility during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Buzzd from New York, a provider of local real-time search information for bars, clubs and restaurants on the mobile […]

Belgian compatriot Robin Wauters is setting up the Plugg conference on March 19 in Brussels, an excellent opportunity for you to get up to speed on the state of the European Web 2.0 industry.
Robin asked me as a speaker to give an overview and current state of Mobile 2.0. Some interesting speakers are […]

Somehow unnoticed was the anouncement yesterday of the strategic partnership between MobileMonday, the global community of over 70,000 mobile industry visionaries and developers, and the GSM Association, the global trade association for mobile phone operators.
The two organizations have entered into a strategic partnership to stimulate, accelerate and showcase innovation in the mobile sector, more […]

Webware, one of the interesting resources on web apps, edited by Rafe Needleman, announced their finalists this week of the Webware 100, a new awards program they recently launched. Over 5.000 nominations were received, whittled down to 2,000 de-duplicated and qualifying entries, from there, 250 products were finally selected as finalists, 25 each in these […]

iNNOVATE!europe is one of these rare conferences bringing together talented European tech startups, analysts, business angels and VC’s. It’s the first time I attented this conference and I’m definately going to put it on my agenda for next year, not only because the conference was impeccablement organised by Chris and Cathy from the Guidewire Group […]

Tomorrow I’ll be attending TechTalk Menorca at the Martin Varsavsky’s ranch in Menorca, an event gathering some of the hottest tech entrepreneurs in a informal atmosphere.
From Martin’s blog:
At the farm we will have Hans Peter Brondmo of Plum, David Sifry of Technorati, Tariq Krim of Netvibes, Loic Le Meur France´s top blogger, Thomas Crampton of […]