Free Registration (required): http://www.eventbrite.com/event/52970436

Hard to believe, but Mobile Mondays Boston is one year old this April! Come out and celebrate with us at Characters Bar & Grill at the Cambridge Marriott Hotel. Appetizers served.

We will also have several demos, including:

• Project-A-Phone – Mobile Handset Imaging Technology – A big “Thank you” for enabling the demos!
• ULocate - WHERE – Publisher mobile location services
• Padpaw – Mobile groupware
• Warelex - Mobiola Video Studio – Mobile Application Development and Consulting
• 80108 Media – Local Mobile Content
• LocaModa – Mobile and Multimedia Interactivity
• i-POP Networks – Mobile Managed Service Provider
• Nextcode - Mobile barcode scanning solutions

Free Registration (required): http://www.eventbrite.com/event/52970436

When: Monday April 9th at 7pm

Where: Characters Bar & Grill in the Marriott Hotel Cambridge, 2 Cambridge Ctr.

Directions: Located in the hotel, outside of the Kendall Square T stop: Birds Eye View

Parking: Parking available in the MIT Sloan lot after 6pm

Thank you to our generous sponsors for this event:

Yesterday we had our meeting at MIT on Mobile VoIP. It was a great meeting with a very interesting discussion. We had about 70 people and many questions for the panel.

We wanted to thank the panelists and all the attendees. Recording of the event.
Also we are planning a special event for April 9th since it’s Mobile Monday Boston birthday, one year old! So stay tuned for more information coming soon.

Based on demand, we have made more tickets available for the Mobile VoIP event. See the link to free registration in the previous post.

Free Registration (required): Click Here

The Mobile Monday Peer Award had the following winners:

• The Audience Favorite award: Plazes.
• The Jury Favorite award: RealEyes3D
• The Community Favorite award: Mobile Complete

Boston based Skyhook Wireless, representing Mobile Monday Boston, was finalist in the Jury Favorite. Congratulation to the winners!

Event pictures.

We had a great meeting las Monday with more then 90 people attending. We wanted to thank the panelists and everyone who attended the meeting. Here is the recording of the meeting and if you have some pictures please send it to us or post them to Flickr.

We are planning another meeting on March 5th, topic Mobile VoIP, so stay tuned for more details in the coming days.

Mobile Monday Barcelona anounced the finalists for the Global Peer Awards 2007, here are the finalists:

• Bangalore — mChek
• Barcelona — MyStrands
• Beijing — Silk Road Telecommunication
• Boston — Skyhook Wireless
• Brussels — Ontrack Navigation
• Delhi — Wirkle
• Geneva — Plazes
• Helsinki — UpCode
• Italy — Barefoot Software
• London — Reporo
• Melbourne — Locatrix
• Paris — Realeyes3D
• Silicon Valley — Mobile Complete
• Singapore — Tagit
• Shanghai — mInfo
• St Petersburg — Jamango
• Tokyo — Naviblog
• Ukraine — Nival Online
• Vancouver — RX Networks
• Washington, DC — Rave Wireless

The winner will be announced at 3GSM. The Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards 2007 during the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona is being organized collaboratively by the Mobile Monday community. Hosted by MoMo Barcelona, MoMo Italy, MoMo Helsinki, MoMo London and MoMo New York have also taken active roles. Invaluable additional support is provided by Barcelona Media, Ajuntament de Barcelona and CIDEM — Generalitat de Catalunya.

The next Mobile Monday will be held February 5th at MIT Sloan.

We’re hosting a panel of executives to discuss a common set of problems for mobile companies. The most common reason companies succeed or fail comes down to getting the right people at the right time. Our panel, which includes a CEO, a venture capitalist, an executive recruiter and a human resources executive, brings a broad range of backgrounds and experience on this topic.

The panel will explore the primary challenges associated with growing a company in the rapidly changing mobile industry and the highly competitive job market, and will address how to hire high-quality talent and build high-functioning teams.

Our moderator will be Mark Newhall of Idealwave. Mark Newhall is a Co-Founder and Director of IdealWave Solutions, a retained executive search firm that focuses exclusively on the mobile industry and a trusted partner to exceptional companies that are shaping the future of mobility. Mark is also a Co-Founder of INmobile.org, an on-line private community for senior executives in the mobile ecosystem that has over 550 members.

John Simon is a co-founder and managing director of General Catalyst, a Cambridge-based venture capital firm with approximately $1 billion under management. John is also a co-founder of M-Qube. Having worked with numerous start-ups and entrepreneurs, John knows that starting a company is often the easiest part and that the difference between a great idea and a great company is the quality of the people.

Randy Bogue is the founder and managing director of Venator Partners, an executive search firm. Randy has worked with over 100 hiring managers at dozens of early-stage companies, many of which are in high-growth, emerging markets including mobile. This experience has given Randy a first hand view of what companies and managers can do to improve their hiring performance and make hiring their biggest competitive advantage.

Rob Adler is currently the CEO of 80108, a mobile content and media company based in Boston. Prior to 80108 Rob was the co-founder and President of CCBN. He has a proven track record in building successful technology-based service companies. CCBN, his second successful venture, was the global leader in enabling direct communications between public companies and the investment community over the Internet.

Ann Walsh, is the Director of Human Resources for JumpTap, Inc., where she developed the HR infrastructure, provided strategic direction for recruitment, designed a compensation plan and implemented policies and procedures for this mobile search company. Throughout her 15 year career, Ann has established a reputation as a knowledgeable business leader as well as human resources expert. Ann’s human resources experience spans various states, countries and industries including; wireless, e-commerce, advertising, and software development.

Cost: Free

Please note, registration will be required for this event. Please follow the link below:
http://momobostonfeb2007.eventbrite.com

When: February 5th 2007 at 7PM

Where: MIT Sloan, E51-345. 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA (entrance at Amherst and Wadsworth Streets near Kendall Square)

Directions: (map): From the Kendall Square Subway Stop, exit the Red Line at the east (river) end of the platform. Walk towards the river and make a right on Wadsworth Street (Bank of America on corner). Walk one block to Amherst Street. Building E51 will be on the corner facing you. Walk through the lobby of E51 and up the stairs and bear to your right. Take the stairs or elevator to the 3rd floor.

Streaming: here at 7PM (Enter as guest with your name)

We are grateful to Venator Partners for sponsoring this Mobile Monday.

Today’s Mobile Monday Boston meeting on Mobile VoIP is been canceled. One of the speaker could not make it due to an emergency. We apologies for the inconvenience. Please stay tuned for next meeting, we will post more information in the coming days.
Thanks

The next Mobile Monday Boston will be on January 8th at 7pm. The topic will be Mobile VOIP.

We’ll have two local experts in mobile VOIP joining us…

Speakers:

• Bob Geiman: General Partner, Polaris Ventures. Bob is an industry expert on VOIP who sits on the board of directors of Bridgeport Networks, a leading provider of MobileVoIP applications and Fixex/Mobile Convergence software infrastructure, and is a former executive at MCK Communications, an early innovator in the field of SIP-based enterprise voice products.
• Nitzan Shaer: Entrepreneur-in-Residence, IDG Ventures. Nitzan founded and led the Mobile Product group at Skype Technologies. Nitzan joined Skype from Microsoft where he served as Senior Product Manager of Emerging Business for the company’s Mobile and Embedded Division.

Location: We’re back at the Nokia Research Center (which is just around the corner from our usual MIT Sloan location).

Nokia Research Center
3 Cambridge Center
2nd Floor,
Cambridge, MA 02142

Located where Main St meets Broadway, above the MIT Coop @ Kendal Sq, near Marriot Hotel tower and Quantum Books. The entrance is on the walkway between the MIT Coop and Legal Seafood.

Cost: Free

Live Streaming: here at 7PM (Enter as guest with your name)