Mobile Monday Silicon Valley

It’s that time again, time for another Mobile Monday meeting! The May 2nd 2005 meeting will be at the Sun campus in Santa Clara. It’ll be in the auditorium, building 3. The address is 4030 George Sellon Circle, Santa Clara 95054. Directions from 101

There’s a PDF of the campus with directions for those who want it, and a link to Yahoo! Maps. And the now famous standard list of essentials:

The topic for the month is Mobile Identity, and presenters are going to be:

As always, the presentations are just part of the festivities. There’ll be time for announcements and plenty of time to wanderer around and talk to everyone. See you there!

Niall Kennedy posted the audio he recorded from the last event:

Thanks again Niall!

We had a good MoMo last night! I was getting pretty worried during the middle of the day when I realized we were competing against the NCAA championships, but even though the turnout was a little lower than usual, we still filled up a pretty huge classroom at Yahoo! Nicole the mobile PR person at Yahoo did a great job getting the room and food set up and the presenters did a great job. Thanks to Igor, Fabrizio, Jeff, Marc and Thad for taking the time to talk to us!

You can check out all the photos tagged with MobileMonday over at Flickr.

Next month, MoMo is at Sun’s Santa Clara auditorium and the topic is Identity. Mike is back in the loop for arrangements (thank god) so we’ll be getting the speakers squared away within the week. Email me if you’re interested in talking!

-Russ

It’s Mobile Monday tonight! Woohoo!

Sorry for the delay in the details! Here’s the directions and here’s tonight’s speakers:

Igor Jablokov (Program Director, Multimodal & Voice Portals, IBM Software Group) - This presentation will describe some of IBM’s mobile initiatives and how our industry is preparing itself for the delivery of multimodal content, both in next generation mobile and media services. Multimodality blends speech input/output with visual Web applications; imagine wading through hundreds of cable channels just by asking your digital video recorder for “The Simpsons”, or asking your phone for local weather and having a 5 day forecast displayed instantly, or asking your media player to start playing Mozart. These are just some of the potential uses, with many more examples possible for enterprise applications such as mail, calendaring, travel information or sales force automation.

Fabrizio Capobianco (CEO and founder of Funambol, the company behind the open
source mobile platform Sync4j): He is going to talk about how Sync4j became
one of the largest developers community in mobile (with more then 10,000
downloads a month) and the launch of its free Address Book and Calendar
synchronization portal (which will allow you to synchronize your contacts
and schedule between your Outlook, iPod, Palm, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry
devices).

Jeff Clavier and Marc Brown (Buzznet): Many know about Buzznet.com as the “other”
photosharing site featuring active communities, tagging/folksonomies,
syndication, web services API, etc. Jeff, who leads Buzznet’s Business
Development, will therefore focus on their mobile functionality and
introduce the Buzznet Platform, a hosted solution enabling communities
and publishers to offer advanced photosharing functionality to their
users.

Thad White (Senior Director, Product Management at Yahoo!): Thad is going to talk about lessons learned from Yahoo’s recent mobile product launches including Mobile Clippings (send directions to your phone) and the new My Yahoo Mobile site. Also the challenges of offering new mobile services to Yahoo’s huge number of Internet users.

It should be fun! I’ve heard one of the above speakers is even going to be demoing a new mobile product tonight on the handset for the first time! And even if the topics aren’t interesting to you, please feel free to come out and mingle.

See you tonight!

-Russ

This is just a quick post to remind everyone about Mobile Monday in two days! Excuse me while I beat the drum a bit, but I’m hoping for a good showing at Monday’s event. I’ll post some more details tomorrow, but I just wanted to give directions now. You can find the official directions here, which I’ll reprint here so you have it:

Here’s the Yahoo Maps page and remember, you can send the directions to your phone as well. :-)

You’ll see a main gate, check in and I think they’re going to send you around to the back garage where you’ll enter directly into the classroom area above the URLs Cafe (in case you’ve been here before). Yahoo has offered to provide snacks so no need to bring anything except yourself and a friend. Also, this is open to everyone, so just show up and come on in. It’s a great opportunity to see our great presenters (more info tomorrow) and a little of Yahoo as well (I know I was excited the first time I saw the campus).

More tomorrow about the presentations! See you on Monday!

-Russ