Mobile Monday Silicon Valley

Mike and I were looking over our inboxes and the main theme seems to be apps that can be shown off. Whether it’s startups with new products, or establish companies with current or new products, that seems to be general idea.

This works out perfectly as I have acquired an Elmo for Mobile Monday (finally!). So in July we’re going to allow whoever wants to demo running code on their phones a chance to show off before everyone. Email Mike (miker at bitsplitter dot net) if you’re interested in getting a spot and we’ll try to get as many people in as possible. If we have a ton of responses, we’ll limit the demos to quick 10 minute show and tells, if for some reason we have the opposite problem we’ll just let the presenters give longer pitches.

Also, at the end of my “presentation” last MoMo, I had quite a few people show off new and interesting gadgets to me as well - I really should have asked if anyone had anything they’d like to share. So we’re going to try out a “Open Elmo” section as well so that anyone who arrives with a cool gadget can demo it for everyone.

Thanks!

-Russ

So wow! Did we have a great turnout last night at Mobile Monday! Openwave went the extra mile in getting everything set up for us with tons of food and drink and a great space in general to meet. Our speakers Ron and Brian were great and everyone was fantastically patient with my long rambling overview of all my gadgets. It’s *really* too bad my partner in crime Mike wasn’t able to make it as he’d have been able to shut me up earlier. :-) Thanks everyone for coming!

We’re looking for speakers and a space for July 11th (the first Monday in July is the 4th) and August - I got some ideas and names last night, but if you’d like to volunteer please email me. I think the leading idea now is “Mobile Startups” where small companies in the valley can come and show off their wares. I’m on the lookout for an Elmo projector now - they cost a ton, so if you know of any where I can get them on the cheap, please ping me as well.

As always, I’ve uploaded the photos to Flickr tagged with “mobilemonday”, if you’ve got some pics as well, definitely throw them up there for everyone to see! Sorry there’s no full video, but here’s an entertaining clip of Ron Mandel enumerating some of the problems with UAProf.

Hope to see you in July!

-Russ

The June Mobile Monday meeting is almost at hand. The theme for the month is usability. Here’s the essentials:

The presenters:

“Just two presenters this time?” you might be thinking. Not quite. As those of you on the discussion list are already well aware, we’ve been looking to get some more real live on-the-device stuff to show off. Openwave has some pretty kick ass digs, and they have the machine necessary to show off a program running on a device. So Russ was going to drag out his grab bag of devices and show off them and the applications they run. I’ve pinged a few others with interesting devices to see if they can bring them by to show off as well. It’s sure to be very interesting. I know I’m personally always surprised by the stuff Russ pulls out of his bag. As always, there’ll be food and drink and plenty of time to network. So come on down and mix it up!