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MobileMonday Barcelona next event on May 7 presents and discusses the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead in Mobile Search.

Since Google introduced it’s easy to use Search Engine in 1998, a lot of things have changed in internet business, very few people could imagine the impact of simple search as we know it know. With even more mobile devices connected to the internet then computers globally, Mobile Search is one of the key area’s in mobile development to satisfy the demands of the consumer…

A mobile search request has to be easy and relevant and needs to be available in the right context. Organising all existing online data to be displayed correctly on a small screen is one of the biggest challenges laying ahead for the industry the coming years. Search news, locations, people, products, tourist and travel information, music and video files, all that data is already accessible on the last generation of mobile phone, a lot of companies are positioning in this interesting and lucrative market space.

Since 2005, a lot of new companies have been starting to position their service, projects like Wapedia, Mobilicio.us, 4INFO, Technorati Mobile, mInfo in China, and more recently mowser are some of the interesting projects around. This year seems to be a breakthrough year in Mobile Search now that the more established internet brands are starting to position in mobile and more and more deals are signed with operators.

I am happy to announce one of our most interesting speakers’ line-ups so far:

Jeff Pedigo, Director, Business Development at Yahoo! Inc. (UK)
Steve Ives, Founder & CEO Taptu.com (UK)
Philip Gontier, Sales Director EMEA, JumpTap, Inc. (USA)
Anat S. Amir, Senior Mobile Marketing Manager, EMEA, Google (UK)

I am looking forward to this event, check the MobileMonday Barcelona website for more details. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/subscribe/ to reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

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 1st series of winners, more will be anounced the next days at mobilemonday.net. (in alphabetical chapter order)

• Barcelona - MyStrands
• Beijing - Silk Road Telecommunication
• Brussels - Ontrack Navigation
• Geneva - Plazes
• Helsinki - UpCode
• London - Reporo
• Delhi - Wirkle
• Paris - Realeyes3D
• Singapore - Tagit
• Tokyo - Naviblog
• Ukraine - Nival Online

Stay updated at MobileMonday Barcelona website for more news on the event!

The MobileMonday Global Peer Awards 2007 during the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona is being organized collaboratively by the MobileMonday community. Hosted by MoMo Barcelona, MoMo Italy, MoMo Helsinki, MoMo London and MoMo New York have also taken active roles.

MobileMonday created a Global Peer Award miniwebsite where you can find all the related info to participate to the Global Peer Awards 2007 in Barcelona on February 12. Information on the program, the awards, how to subscribe, how to mominate a company, how to become a sponsor, venue, etc. This is your chance to witness some of the world’s best mobile innovations. Selected by industry peers, peer award finalists will compete live before the community and a world class jury.

The offical nomination registration is now open for companies to become a nominee and make it to the final. Each MobileMonday chapter will choose their favourite mobile startup company on January 31st to present it’s project to the jury of experts at the event in Barcelona.

Also on the menu: The Carnival of Mobilists will select their ‘Host of the Year’ and win a complimentary trip to Helsinki for the MobileMonday Global Summit in May.

Note that some chapters have chosen already their winner, and some MobileMonday’s are still helding pre-selections to name their winner. Some interesting events happening still this month:

MobileMonday Ukraine is holding it’s pre-selection on January 22 to announce the company-finalist of the Ukrainian selection for the Global Peer Awards 2007.

MoMo London has published a short-list that comprises UK based start-ups that have demoed to London MoMo since the last MoMo Global Peer Awards in May 06 in Helsinki. Voting on the short list will take place after the event on Monday 15th Jan and will remain open till Friday 19th Jan.

Check also the MobileMonday New York on Monday January 29th at the Samsung Experience in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle. In collaboration with Antoine Quint of SVG.org, Dan Appelquist of Vodafone and MobileMonday-London, and Scott Weiss of Usable Products cordially invite you to join for this month’s event titled “Rich Mobile Experiences with SVG”. This half-day event will run from 3:00pm to 8:00pm followed by a networking reception.

Do not hesitate to register your attendance for the Global Peer Awards 2007 in Barcelona, the event is heading rapidly for a +500 event so seats might become limited after next week.

MobileMonday will start releasing some participating finalist companies next week!

The MobileMonday Global Peer Awards 2007 during the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona is being organized collaboratively by the MobileMonday community. Hosted by MoMo Barcelona, MoMo Italy, MoMo Helsinki, MoMo London and MoMo New York have also taken active roles.

Check MobileMonday webiste for a full list of chapters and new chapters to be opening soon. You may want to consult the Mobile Events calendar at upcoming.org for more MobileMondays around and other interesting events in mobility.

Just recovered from MobileMonday Barcelona event on Mobile Social Networks and I’m already off to Paris  for the 1 year anniversary party of MobileMonday France. MMF have invited partyStrands to the party to introduce their interactive music and entertainment service. Utilizing screens, mobile phones and digital music, partyStrands will offer the Paris MoMo crowd a new, colorful and fresh way to enjoy the music experience and have fun interacting with eachother during the closing cocktail of the Mobile Office conference and exhibition.

MobileMonday France will have its 1st anniversary celebration within the venerable Mobile Office Tradeshow at the Hotel Lafayette Concorde in Paris on December 6th, at 6:30pm.

Be sure to join us for MobileMonday France’s first birthday celebration, the live partyStrands page is already up. Jane (Jae Jong) Kwak, marketing manager at Mystrands will introduce some new features for partyStrands interactive use.

The evening promises loads of fun with about 500 people using partyStrands live, a Brazilian band and dancers and a dj, all set within the heart of this grand city. If anyone wants to catch up with me, you know where to find me this evening

And don’t forget the read the next CotM issue, Justin Oberman managed to host the 56th Carnival of the Mobilists LIVE from Bangalore, India. Must read!

Alberto just mailed me with the news that The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) today announced that Mobile Dreams Factory received an award for the Best Use of Mobile Marketing, Cross-Media Integration with Vodafone Videogoals (see video below)

and a second award for Innovation for Creativity in Technology with FIFA WorldCup Videoblog (see video below)

The award was presented last night during the MMA’s Annual Mobile Marketing Awards dinner, which recognizes leaders and innovators driving development of the mobile channel. This is great news for Mobile Dreams Factory who have been doing great and innovating work in this field during last years here in Spain, it’s also a stimulation for the entire Spanish mobile business.

Alberto Benbunan Garzón, founder and Business Development Director of Mobile Dreams Factory will introduce their new social networking and dating platform called Moviligo at the next MobileMonday Barcelona, together with Felix Petersen from Plazes.com (GE) and Alex Kummerman from Clicmobile (FR). Reserve your seat here now, few places left!