Mobile Web Wars Starts In Two Hours
by Erick Schonfeld on July 25, 2008

If you want to know where the mobile Web is going, join us here at TechCrunch at 3PM PT for the live video stream of our Mobile Web Wars Roundtable The mobile Web is finally here and developers have to choose what platform they want to bet on. Do they go with Apple’s beautiful walled garden, wait for more open Android pastures to arrive, or do they hope that Nokia figures out how to update Symbian into something that can compete with the newer platforms?

Right now, the iPhone has the momentum and the apps. Will Apple repeat the mistakes it made in the PC era and keep its platform so tightly controlled that it will leave an opening for a more open platform to become the Windows of the mobile world. And what platform has the chops to lay claim to that title? A lot of people are hoping that will be Android, despite a lack of phones and grumbling among developers that it is not ready yet. How long does Android have to get its act together?

We have a great panel to help answer these questions (and ask better ones). You can watch it live here on TechCrunch and ask your own questions. Twitter them in to MobileWars.

Here’s who will be there:

David Rivas, Nokia, Vice President of Technology Management for S60 Software
Walt Doyle, CEO Ulocate
Tom Conrad, CTO Pandora
Greg Yardley, CEO of Pinch Media CEO
Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous
David Hornik, partner, August Capital
Jed Stremel, Director of Mobile at Facebook (replacing Joe Hewitt)
Guy Ben-Artzi, Founder of Real Dice and CEO of Mytopia
Jason Devitt, CEO of Skydeck
Gannon Hall, CMO of Kyte
Sam Altman, CEO of Loopt
Marc Davis, chief scientists of Yahoo’s mobile group
Omar Hamoui, CEO of AdMob
Richard Wong, partner at Accel
Andreas Weigend, people & data (former chief scientist, Amazon)
Tatsuki Tomita, SVP of Consumer Product, Opera
Mike Rowehl, chief architect, SkyFire
Mary Ann Cotter, CEO, Cooking Capsules
John Faith , GM and VP of Mobile for MySpace

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silicon valley dropout - July 25th, 2008 at 1:30 pm PDT

i will go with big google

ftw

 

iphone will rule the world..(post by iPhone)

 

Only 3 followers on Twitter. Is it the right place?

 

Hello:

Will dotMobi be discussed?

 

where is mobile going?
no where we have not gone before. people can play on there phones only for so long and than its time to get there hands dirty and earn a living.
mobile services are fun and great but they dont pay the bills. unless used for business they can be the greatest contributor to lost productivity.

Business purposes for mobile is not rocket science.
-Want product-enter search term
-A locator finds where you are and gives you a choice of 5 places by distance with prices and social commentary and you choose one.

WeDontNeedAnotherApp.com

 

Don’t forget the Canadians. Blackberry is in the mobile race.

 

what is url for the live video stream

 

$10 says it will be on qik

 

jimbo you owe me $10, not on qik, any other guesses

 

same question: what’s the url for the live video stream

i seen it on the homepage for about 10 seconds, refreshed and it disappeared.

 
 

at this slow rate of response we will get url when discussion is over and everyone has headed out for August Capital event!

 

it was all too good to be true. seen the cast for 10 seconds and it disappeared. there having a good party over there.

 

Where did you see the cast?

 

Typical web 2.0. all promise, no deliver.

 

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?TreyParkerTrey Parker

 

The cellphone of picture is N73 that I am used for 2 years.

 

Love is blind. That is why he always proceeds by touch.FrenchProverbFrench Proverb

 

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.OscarWildeOscar Wilde

 

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