July 2008 Meeting Details

July 1st, 2008

We’re back for July!!! Coming fresh off a three day 4th of July weekend everyone should be energetic and revitalized. Here are the essential details for the meeting:

What: July 2008 Mobile Monday (Metrics and Analytics) When: July 7th, 2008 7:00pm Where: Microsoft SF Campus, 835 Market St, 7th floor, San Francisco, CA 94103 Who: Anyone interested in mobility Cost: Nothing!

There’s been a lot of talk about analytics for mobile properties, and more numbers are making it out into public forums for wider scrutiny. We’ll hear from a few different folks helping to make that happen: AdMob will give a demo of their new analytics offering, Opera will share some about the motivation and learning that’s come from the State of the Mobile Web Report. We’ll also have a panel discussion moderated by Matt Marshall from VentureBeat. The goal is to try to pull some overall understanding of how the mobile web is progressing, and what a publisher can do to understand their position and role in the market as a whole.

The folks from VentureBeat helped me put together the plan for this month’s meeting and worked out the details for the meeting space. They have a conference of their own coming up at the end of July that looks like it should be fantastic. I already posted to my personal blog about it, but here’s some info about the conference directly from them:

MobileBeat2008 is a conference, July 24, that will explore new opportunities emerging in the mobile industry, presented by VentureBeat. With new entrants such as the 3G iPhone and its slick browser, and Google’s open Android project, together with the emerging openness among the carriers, there’s never been as much opportunity for innovation – and for making money.

Speakers include Rich Miner, of Google’s Android project, to Matt Murphy, of the iFund; also speaking are principals from the newly announced RIM (Blackberry) Fund, Verizon, Nokia, Loopt, AdMob, Accel Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and many more. Tickets are limited and going fast, so go to amiando.com/mobilebeat2008 to register or mobilebeat2008.com to learn more.

May 2008 Meeting Details

April 12th, 2008

We have something a bit different planned for the May event this year. Instead of a set of presentations we’re going to have a panel discussion focused on issues commonly faced when running a mobile business. Details:

What: May 2008 Mobile Monday (Running Your Mobile Business) When: May 5th, 2008 7:00pm Where: Microsoft SV Campus, 1065 La Avenida St. Building 1, Mountain View, CA 94043 Who: Anyone interested in mobility Cost: Nothing!

This should serve as a good preview of the kinds of topics we’re going to be hitting at the Mobile 2.0 event this year. We’re bringing together a bunch of folks who have been working in and involved with the industry for a long time to help “map the minefield” that is doing business in the mobile ecosystem. How do you make the decisions around how to bring your service to market? Who are all the players that get involved and how do you handle them? As well as some case studies from past and present companies that we can have discussions around. Thanks to the organizers of the event, who we’ll be hearing from the day of:

Gregory Gorman Greg Franklin Jason Devitt Peter Vesterbacka

And many thanks to Microsoft for providing the meeting space and food. Hope to see you all there! - Mike

March 2008 Meeting Details

March 3rd, 2008

The March 2008 meeting of the Silicon Valley chapter is going to be on the 10th, hosted at Google. The topic is going to be automotive applications, with presentations from BMW about their connected car initiative and Dash showing off the API for their Internet connected navigation system. Here are the details:

What: March 2008 Mobile Monday (Automotive) When: March 10th, 2008 7:00pm Where: Google, Tunis Tech Talk, Building 43, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 Who: Anyone interested in mobility Cost: Nothing!

February 2008 Meeting Details

January 29th, 2008

There’s been a lot going on with browsers on mobile devices: the changes in usage coming about due to the iPhone, new high capability browsers like that demoed last month by Wake3 and the announcement yesterday of Skyfire, and the advancing work on Firefox mobile. The last time we did an overview of browsers was back in March 2006, so it’s definitely time to return to the topic. The meeting is going to be in the Sibley Auditorium at Berkeley. Thanks go to the Digital Media and Entertainment Club (DMEC) at Haas for supporting Mobile Monday. Here are the essential details in standard form:

What: February 2008 Mobile Monday (Mobile Browsers) When: February 4th, 2008 7:00pm Where: Sibley Auditorium in the Bechtel Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 (see below) Who: Anyone interested in mobility Cost: Nothing!

Bechtel Hall apparently doesn’t map out well for directions, but Evans Hall right next door does (970 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720). Campus map included below (Thanks Manu!). Hope to see you next week! - Mike

Berkeley Campus map for Sibley Auditorium

Presentations from Jan 2008

January 10th, 2008

All the presenters at the open source focused event from January have agreed to shared their slides:



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