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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 during the event.

Kudos to Geraldine and Loïc and the whole Web3 organizing team for putting this together, it’s a truly unique event in Europe!

Not sure how connected I’ll be but my favourite channels will be on Twitter and Jaiku, I added this Grazr widget in my sidebar for live LeWeb3 blog updates from participants.

See you in Paris!

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!

Last weeks’ MobileMonday Barcelona on Proximity Marketing was the occasion to get briefed on the present real-world cases of mobile technologies used in a physical context. FuturLink presented their (rather impressive) content delivery system based on Bluetooth access points; Media Contacts talked about tailoring content; and Nike related on their (mostly) good experience on using proximity marketing; finally Daem Interactive revealed their MMS image recognition solution.

(from left to right: Joan Grau, Media Contacts - David Masó, FuturLink - Miguel Sola, Daem Interactive - Paulino Moraleda, Brand Communications Manage, Nike)

Carles Fereiro from Barcelona Media did a great job while I was checking out Villes 2.0, an excellent initiative launched by FING, also founders of Mobile Monday Paris. I liked a lot the speakers’ box concept they introduced at BETC Euro RSCG, you can view some of this Paris trip picture here. Thanks to Marie, Daniel, Stephane and especially Véronique of the MoMoParis team for just being so wonderful

Fabien Girardin took some pictures of the MobileMonday Barcelona evening. Check out his blog used for his Ph.D. thesis on collaborative work in the context of mobile and ubiquitous environments.

From Fabien’s Flickr images (l-to-r): FuturLink’s Bluetooth Access Point, Nike’s proximity experiment on a big Christmas ad in Barcelona, Media Contacts’ new generations of content.

Subscribed MobileMonday Barcelona users can download the presentations of that evening in the subscribers profile page. There is a very interesting video demo available from Media Contacts bluetooth campaign with VolksWagen-EOS.

Next MoMoBCN event on December 4 has topic Mobile Social Networks. Head over for more details at MobileMonday Barcelona website.

Despite the excellent program at Mobile Monday Barcelona, I will attend the Villes 2.0 conference on November 6 in Paris, together with Ignacio Mondine, R&D director from Daem Interactive.

One can easily imagine how big cities will become more difficult to manage in the near future. The evolution of technology in general, including those of the internet and the mobile phone might bring some solutions in new urban practices and might find some innovative answers to the challenges that cities currently encounter.

The internet goes with and accelerates urban transformations. City is the main laboratory of different kind of uses : Wireless and Fixed Broadband, trade and logistic issues, home services, mobility issues (working, security, privacy,…), CCTV (security…), smart transport, on-line communities ,local democracy, public internet access ..

I’m looking forward to this conference, organised by Fing and Tactis.

The same evening I’m going to attend Mobile Monday Paris and meet team and organisers Marie and Véronique. They have been doing a wonderful job setting up MoMoParis nearly a year ago and bring the French mobile industry together, I heard the monthly event is really popular and highly attended, it’s going to be interesting to exchange experiences and opinions.

Ignacio from Daem Interactive will present Daem’s latest innovations in mobile image recognition, the same day, they’ll be anouncing a major campaign in Spain using image recognition and MMS. After all these years of struggling with MMS, will image recognition finally lift MMS? More about this and the campaign next week at m-trends.org.

If anyone would like to meet with me and Ignacio, please do get in touch by clicking my name in the sidebar.