Mobile Monday Barcelona

Thank you everyone for participating in selecting our finalist to the Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards 2007. The MobileMonday Barcelona community has participated in the hundreds to select the local winner. The vote has been close…that is what happens when you have such a strong group of nominees.

Now that all the votes have been counted, we all need to congratulate our winner: MyStrands! We look forward to seeing you in the Global Peer Awards on Feb.12 and good luck. You have home field advantage!

For those curious here is a little note about our winner:

MyStrands develops behavior-based recommendation technologies that help people organize and discover digital media, through Internet connected devices (computers, mobile devices, etc).

partyStrands is an interactive service for party organizers, bars, clubs and DJs, that lets partygoers choose and influence the night’s music by sending an SMS or interacting through m.MyStrands.com. partygoers can also interact with each other by sending messages and pictures to pre-installed screens for everyone to see; and organize votes on songs, drinks, most popular guy/girl and more. Partygoers then choose the winner all from their cell phones.

Those looking for some fun can go to m.MyStrands.com and check out in real time what parties are taking place or what bars are open now, who is at the party, what music is playing and what people are saying. The day after, partyStrands helps you remember what happened last night; it automatically creates a web site (and mobile website) for each new venue, where users can go and see the text messages, photos, partygoers, and the playlist, from last night’s party.

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.

A great and interesting evening yesterday in Barcelona. Engaging speakers, an attentive audience and a lot of networking during the cocktail with partyStrands demo in the background. Check back in a couple of days for presentations of the speakers and next week for next months’ program. Some pictures here below, check here to view the complete Flick set from yesterdays’ event. Thanks to the many participants, the speakers and our sponsors this time Bango and Barcelona Media.

Scott Cohen, The Orchard

Bill Houghton, MyStrands Mobile demo

Ian Musselwhite, Bango

A great audience

And partyStrands demo during the networking cocktail.