Mobile 2.0 slides @ Over The Air
0 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele April 9th, 2008 in Mobile Apps, Mobile Web, web 2.0, Mobile Events, Mobile Content, Mashup, MobileMonday, User-Experience, Usability, Mobile OS, Mobile RSS, mobile 2.0, Trends, Mobile Culture, Mobile Monday, Innovation, Startups, Events, DevelopersHere are my Mobile 2.0 slides of the keynote I did last Friday in London at the Over The Air event, a great initiative by Daniel Appelquist and Ian Forrester. Over the Air was organised by Mobile Monday London, hosted by Imperial College and supported by the BBC.
Kudos to the whole team who made this happen, this was more than just a developers’ conference, more than just a workshop or a barcamp… It was a 48 hours of mobile and wireless development experiment bringing together some +400 developers and mobile industry experts with great sessions on various industry related topics… Lots of great people and ideas gathered during these 2 days. Check the Over The Air website to view the presentations from other keynotes and sessions.
The were 21 competition entries for the mobile application prototype competition. The winners were:
* Overall Best Prototype - Mr. Tomm (Future Platforms)
* Best Mobile Widget - Auto Widget Configurator (Owen)
* Best Hardware hack - Phone Fight (lastminute.com labs)
* Best Use of Multimedia - 21st Century Fridge Door (Orange Pirate)
* Best Use of Wireless, Bluetooth or RFID - Bluetooth FOAF (Owend)
* Most elegant solution - Twitter Client for Windows (Dale Lane)
* Most over engineered - Clever Social Tool (Alex squared)
* Most practical / ready for market - Social Network Open Butler (SNOB)
* Best mobile web application - Browser Sync
* Best design / user experience prototype - Phone Fight (lastminute.com labs)
* Best Location Aware Award - Capture the Flag (Location based games)
* Audience Favorite - Capture the Flag by the Pink Pirates
And the winners in the unofficial categories were:
* Fun Award - Phone Fight (lastminute.com labs)
* Most likely the succeed with the CIA - (Social Tracker)
More info on the winners, pictures, and other follow-ups will be posted on the Over The Air website later on.
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MyStrands Wins Nokia Mobile Rules! Award
0 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele March 27th, 2008 in Mobile Apps, Announcements, mobile 2.0, Awards
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 and entrepreneurs from around the globe. Check all the winners here.
MyStrands Social Player is a music player for mobile devices (Symbian Series 60, 3rd edition. Also available for Java) with two main characteristics: it lets you discover new music and has a built-in social network. You can meet people who like the same songs you play, send messages, see others’ listening histories, and much more… It has received great reviews so far and the best is yet to come. See my previous coverage and demo here.
I just got the news that MyStrands is going to release an new version of the player at CTIA in Las Vegas with some pretty exciting features. If you are there, make sure to go and check out a demo and learn about about what MyStrands Recommender Technology and the Social Player can do for your business. Booth #4855 in Hall N4, within the Enterprise Mobility Pavilion, Las Vegas Convention Center.
For more information: contact them directly here.
(Full Disclosure: I’m doing some work for MyStrands)
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Mobile 2.0 @ Plugg
14 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele March 22nd, 2008 in Social Media, Operators, Mobile Apps, Mobile Web, Mobile Lifestyle, web 2.0, Mobile Events, Mobile Content, Cool Devices, Analysis, Mobile Advertising, Mashup, Mobile Search, Mobile OS, LBS, Mobile RSS, mobile 2.0, Trends, Proximity Marketing, Image Recognition, QR codes, Innovation, Spanish Startups, Mobile Video, Startups, Nokia, IPTV, Mobile Games, Location-Based, ConvergenceHere’s my updated overview presentation on Mobile 2.0 I did last week in Brussels at the Plugg Conference, a great initiative by Robin Wauters. The conference included a Start-Ups Rally won by Viewdle.
I saw many people taking pictures during the presentation 
I you’re one of them, and if you want to share them just ping me if you have some good ones, I’ll be happy to link them and/or share them with my readers.
NOTE: As for the startups represented here, they are only some of the ones I am following. This is not intented as a complete overview but a representation and moment in time. If you’re not included in this presentation you might be in my next one 
Just ping me if I missed you somehow.
Some bloggers reported already (in Dutch) on my presentation:
Tom Wesseling @ Marketingfacts
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MyStrands.TV - Your Personalised Music TV Channel
1 Comment Published by Rudy De Waele September 4th, 2007 in Mobile Music, Social Media, web 2.0, Announcements, Analysis, Music, Fun, mobile 2.0, Trends, Innovation, Spanish Startups, StartupsThe future of online TV, music and video content is going to be personalized and recommended, Mystrands just released a personalized online video service called MyStrands.TV. Nothing really mobile just yet but sooOOO cool I had to blog it here.
My teenage daughters and their friends TV viewing patterns changed completely the last year: they just don’t sit and watch TV anymore, they sit in front of the PC with their friends, deciding themselves what to watch, receiving links and recommendations from their IM peers - now I just need to get another free wi-fi connected pc or laptop connected to the plasma screen and they’re all set for the perfect interactive viewing experience
I had the pleasure to discover the new MyStrands service a couple of days ago and it’s really adding value to just watching YouTube video’s - MyStrands.TV is powered by MyStrands APIs and the music videos come from YouTube. Logging to MyStrands.tv proposes you an endless playlist of music videos that are personalized specifically for you…. based on your music listening history and recommendations. The first time you might find that the recommendations are based on existing channels, genres and a-like artists but actually this new recommendation tool is proposing music and concert video’s of my favorite artists based on my existing MyStrands profile, now isn’t that cool?
Richard MacManus researched the Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time a couple of weeks ago at Read/Write Web. He mentioned that “7 of the top 10 are music videos. So music videos are something that people want to watch online and there is a need for an easy way to organize or personalize this.”
Typing some of my favorite artists like Roxy Music, Miles Davis and Serge Gainsbourg for example brings up an excellent choice of all-time music video’s and concerts, a real delight to see some stuff again I hadn’t seen in years and discover some new video’s I didn’t know about.
Watch the recommended video’s on the right, the recommendations are really excellent, you can view more vid’s of the same artist or a similar one - or jump to another artist, view the community people who listen to this artist as well; you can favorite video’s and send them to friends. To me, this has been a great experience with many pleasant surprises and my kids LOVE it!
FYI: If you don’t have a MyStrands account, and you just want to try out MyStrands.TV before deciding whether to sign up, just type in the name of an artist and MyStrands builds a custom music video channel for you.
I believe MyStrands is taking a major step towards how online media is going to be consumed in the future, it’s community-based, personalized and with recommendations from peers and friends.
More links on MyStrands.TV personalized online video service here:
Mashable - MyStrands Launches YouTube-Powered Custom TV
TechCrunch - MyStrands Launches Music Video Discovery Service, MyStrands.tv
Read/Write Web - MyStrands.TV Launched - It’s last.fm For Video
And oh, for mTrends readers and mobile enthusiasts, if you haven’t MyStrands Social Player installed on your mobile yet, click here to download MyStrands for Symbian; you may also want to visit MyStrands labs page to check out their latest beta.
(disclosure note on my MyStrands involvement here)
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partyStrands Interactive Screen Video
0 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele September 26th, 2006 in Social Media, Mobile Lifestyle, web 2.0, Friends, Mashup, Fun, partyStrandsHere below an interactive screen demo of partyStrands application taken at La Botellita - Serrano in Madrid last Thursday.
- see who/what is playing
- incoming user request (through SMS) influencing music with artist (x)
- recommendations of similar style music
- users in the waiting queue
- another incoming influencing music request
- user chat screen (cut)
Below a screenshot of the BAR page at the partyStrands web-app. NOTE that everything is completely LIVE (at partystrands.com)
An easy URL is created for every BAR member within the partyStrands network.
The BAR page includes:
- bar logo
- contact details
- location info
- news from the bar/club
- a partygoers FORUM
- pictures from the club and its’ parties
- a list of users currently present in the club (and online)
- recently played songs
- most played artists
To me it looks like an excellent blog-page for bars with an interactive jukebox included 
BAR owners and affiliates can now easily subscribe, create their partyStrands page and signup to tryout the partyStrands application in their bar. Currently only available in Spain, partyStrands will become available in other countries soon.
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Present and Future of Recommender Systems
0 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele June 29th, 2006 in Mobile Music, Mobile Web, 3G, web 2.0, Podcasts, Announcements, Usability, Mobile SearchAre we living throught the birth of a new industry? I believe recommendation and discovery technologies are critical for the development of the digital revolution. If the search technologies became a need when information went digital and people started to need tools to find relevant info, the recommendation technologies are needed in a society that consumes digital content.
The trend is clear: more and more digital content out there, more high quality Internet access, more devices with connectivity, all will allow people to easily access and enjoy content. But we will need help to find the relevant content for us, for each specific moment.
MusicStrands are organising a Summer School next September 12, 13 in Bilbao, Spain: Recommenders06.com - The Present and Future of Recommender Systems. They are putting together the brightest minds in the field of recommender technologies, and some of the companies defining its use.
Check the amazing list of speakers and the agenda here. Lecturers include some of the brightest minds of Yahoo, Inc., Netflix, Inc., Sun Microsystems Labs, ChangingWorlds Ltd., IBM Research, Wired Magazine and some representants of Universities specializing in this field.
The Summer School will bring together the concepts and practices of Recommender Systems and is intended for both researchers (including Ph.D. students) and for professionals and managers who want to benefit from the best information on Recommender Systems and personalization advances.
Enrollment is free but will be limited to 60 attendees. The class will fill quickly, so don’t wait to apply! As the number of participants is limited, an application should be sent as early as possible, but definitely before July 1st.
Ten scholarships for up to 1,200 euros in transportation and housing fees are available for promising students. Candidates should be pursuing or intending to pursue a Ph.D. in the area of Recommender Systems and/or Social Networking.
I can only hope you read this in time!
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