Mobile Monday Barcelona

MobileMonday has announced its Peer Award nominees. 25 chapters from around the world have chosen companies that have demonstrated exceptionally innovative mobile technologies, products, services and concepts.

The event will be held at Espacio Movistar. Luis Jorge Romero, Director of Standards and Innovation in Telefónica España, will be a keynote speaker together with Pekka Ala-Pietilä, CEO and Co-Founder, Blyk. Mr. Romero will speak about the future of the mobile market and his experience driving innovation in Telefónica España, whose Open Innovation strategy encourages innovation and value creation by partnering with new start-ups.

This year’s nominees are:

Amsterdam - Movels
Bangalore - Mobisy
Barcelona - skuair
Berlin - ViiF
Boston - SnapMyLife
Brussels - Mobixx
Chennai - Mobile-worx
Dusseldorf - Cellity
Helsinki - Fromdistance
Istanbul - Mobinex
London - The 3G Dating Agency / Taptu
Madrid - Kimia
Milan - Waymedia
Mumbai - Ziva Technologies
Munich - hiClip
New York - BuzzD
Oslo - Adactus
Paris - WebWag
Rome - Nanology
Shanghai - DuoGuo
Silicon Valley - Funambol
Singapore - mBit.tv
St. Petersburg - 4Mobi.TV
Stockholm - Momail
Taipei - Toro

This year’s winners at the MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona will also be invited to participate in the Innovation Pad activities at the MobileMonday Global Summit in conjunction with the World Congress on IT in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 18-22, 2008.

The event is also going to showcase for the first time the new barcelona.mobi mobile urban guide.

Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Nokia, dotMobi, Xtract, Acision, Nexit Ventures, Mippin, 22@Barcelona and Barcelona Media for their invaluable support to this event organised by dotopen.

Additional information is available at http://www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/peerawards/

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MobileMonday Global Peer Awards winners were decided last Monday in Barcelona at the Espacio Movistar. The awards were handed out to two European applications and one from the US, MobileMonday previously anounced.

The Audience Award went to a Swiss LBS application called Plazes. The Plazes service adds physical presence to the web. The Plazes website automatically detects your location and connects you to people and places nearby.

The jury’s favorite was a French 3D application that can scan and manipulate real life hand written text. The winner, RealEyes3D, operates at two levels: It runs a mobile copy service for camera phone users, www.qipit.com and sells “handwritten messaging” applications to handset vendors.

Community Award went to an American company Mobile Complete. It offers solutions to manage the user experience throughout the life-cycle of mobile applications, services, and handsets.

This was the third year MobileMonday’s Peer Award winners have been chosen. The competiton presentations were held in the Espacio Movistar mobile entertainment center in Barcelona.

Twenty-two of the most talented, creative, and innovative companies presented 3-minute “elevator pitch” style presentations to a panel jury, the audience, and MobileMonday chapter heads.

All finalists were best-of-breed companies who have demonstrated exceptionally innovative mobile technologies, services and concepts. Micah Gland, head of MobileMonday International Development, described the MobileMonday Global Peer Award finalists as “the foam that rises to the top of the café called 3GSM.”The Carnival of the Mobilists - ‘Host of the Year‘ award went to Rudy De Waele with his blog m-trends.org on Mobile Media Lifestyle.

Congratulations to all winners and finalists! A great networking party followed the event for all attendants.

More pictures of the event can be found on Flickr by Josep Ganyet, Martin Sauter, and Rudy De Waele, or by using a combination of various tags suchs as mobilemonday, peerawards, 3gsm, barcelona or other related.

UPDATE: we created a Global Peer Awards Flickr Group so anyone who has pictures of the events can upload them to the group to be shared by everyone.

The MobileMonday Barcelona team and Barcelona Media would like to thank Telefónica Movistar for hosting the event and to 22@Barcelona and Reitek for their fantastic support as a Premium Sponsor and Nexit Ventures as Silver sponsor. Big thanks also to Ajuntament de Barcelona and CIDEM — Generalitat de Catalunya, for their invaluable additional support.

The MobileMonday Global Peer Awards 2007 in Barcelona is being organized collaboratively by the MobileMonday community. Hosted by MoMo Barcelona, MoMo Italy, MoMo Helsinki, MoMo London and MoMo New York have also taken active roles. Many thanks to the everyone who helped building this great event, especially the whole MobileMonday community, participants, the jury (!), MC Caroline (wonderful job!) and Jari and Micah, without their initial and invaluable support it would not have been possible to make such event happen. Hope to see all of you again next year!

(and now back to normal preparing next months’ MobileMonday, stay tuned!)

All pictures © by 22@Barcelona.

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We created a speaker presentation download section for our participants and readers. You can currently download the speaker presentations from the Mobile Monday July 3 opening event in Barcelona, on Mobile Marketing and Advertising and from the recent Future of Mobile Music event of October 2. Current presentations available from:

• Ian Musselwhite, Bango
• Scott Cohen, The Orchard
• Bill Houghton, MyStrands
• Russell Buckley, AdMob
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research
• José Luis Jorge Marrasé, Alcatel

All presentations are in english, if you are already subscribed, you just need to login here to acces our new documents section. Subscribers can now easily manage their event attendance and profile. If you are not subscribed yet, please enter the subscription section to acces the documents.

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