Mobile Monday Barcelona

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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Mobile Communities, MoSoSo (Mobile Social Software), Mobile User-Generated Content, Mobile IM & Chat, Moblogging, Mobile Friend Finders, Ping your Buddies, … We have heard a lot of these rather new terminologies the last months now. MySpace, YouTube are the obvious web-based examples going mobile soon; and the big companies have been moving in this mobile space lately: Google bought Dodgeball, Microsoft’s Zune has social network capabilities build-in, adding geo-location to this dimension now is obvious to build the next-generation mobile killer apps but what is their current state? Do they have many users? What do they learn form them? How people use the software? When? Where? Is it really useful for mobile users right now? Do the companies behind make money yet? What are the new business models in this field?

MobileMonday Barcelona invites, for our next event on December 4, some of the most interesting European players in this field so if you want to learn more about this topic and hear it from the experts, please register ASAP, this topic promises to be a quick seat-filler.

Date: Monday, December 4, 2006

Topic: Mobile Social Networks

Speakers:

Felix Petersen - Plazes (Germany)
Plazes is the first global location-aware interaction and geo-information system, connecting you with the people and Plazes in your area and all over the world. It is the navigation system for your social life and it’s absolutely free. Plazes is a social location directory with more than 100,000 users that can tag locations to find other users or related places nearby. The service has gathered a lot of media attention on a global scale and is since long the darling of the super-geeks.

Alex Kummerman - Clicmobile (France) presenting areyouhere.net and yootribe.com ( with Swithmod )
Alex has been at the forefront of multimedia development. He now brings over 13 years of mobile telecommunication expertise and successful management to Clicmobile, his third start-up. Alex is also a commentator on the developing Mobile Social Software (MoSoSo) industry. He continues to advise people on LBS-MoSoSo as an editor on the LBS-MOSOSO blog. Alex is now launching a platform for connected communities providing tools for both the PC and the mobile worlds. Clicmobile is a Geneva based start-up company with an operational subsidiary in Paris. Clicmobile provides the open media world with tools to build and run connected communities.

Alberto Benbunan Garzón - Mobile Dreams Factory (Spain)
Alberto Benbunan Garzón, founder and Business Development Director of Mobile Dreams Factory will talk about their social networking and dating platform called Moviligo, their challenges, opportunities and future applications in this area. Moviligo is a mobile dating portal. With just the mobile phone the user can send messages, flirt or chat.

The sessions will be moderated by Fabien Girardin from 7.5th Floor blog who is currently finishing his Ph.D. thesis on collaboration in the context of mobile and ubiquitous environments, expect some vivid discussions!

As usual, a networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence at www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/subscribe/ to reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book early to avoid being left out!

19h30 Registration and Pre-Networking
20h00 Mobile Social Networks
21h05 Cocktail and Networking Party
22h00 End

This event is sponsored by CIDEM (Centre d’Innovació i Desenvolupament Empresarial of the Generalitat de Catalunya), Agora 22@ and Barcelona Media.

Venue: Auditorium University of Pompeu Fabra - França Building (Edifici França)
Passeig de Circumval·lació, 8 - Barcelona 08003

Location and Directions here at Google Maps
Additional reading at m-trends.org – MoSoSo + Wi-Fi

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