GPS Obsessed had such a great headline we had to steal it.

Read and hear coverage of our research into the massive growth of Boston’s mobile and wireless industry in 2008: on WBZ, the Boston Globe, and MSN Money, and Xconomy.

Mobile Monday Boston 1.12.2009 from Shane Martz on Vimeo.

We wanted to announce the Mobile Monday Boston nominee for the Mobile Monday Peer Award 2009 that will be held in Barcelona next month during the Mobile World Congress.

The Mobile Monday Boston start-up nominee is: MocoSpace
Congratulation to the MocoSpace team!!

Now MocoSpace will compete again all other nominees from other Mobile Monday chapters from all around the world. 20 finalists will be selected to participate to the Mobile Monday Peer Award 2009.

We also wanted to mention and thank the other companies that participated to the Mobile Monday Boston Peer Award selection: OpenPin, Azuki, and Raizlab.

Mobile Monday Boston Team

We had the biggest Mobile Monday Boston event ever last night. Over 400 people turned out to hear from about Mobile Business Models from Bain Capital Ventures, AppVee, Celtra, Jumptap, MocoSpace, Airvana, and Mobile Ecosystem. Thanks again to Bain Capital Ventures for their generous sponsorship.

Look how happy everyone is!

Slides from the event are up on slideshare:

See you next time!

Join us for the next Mobile Monday Boston event, “Compelling Mobile Business Models” on Monday, January 12th, at the Langham Hotel in Boston at 7pm. This event is generously sponsored by Bain Capital Ventures – Register Now.

Speakers from early, mid- and late-stage Boston-area mobile companies will discuss their organization’s current business model, how the model has evolved over time, and the impact of the current economic climate.

Jeffrey Glass, Managing Director of Bain Capital Ventures will deliver the keynote. Jeff was President & CEO of m-Qube, Inc. acquired by VeriSign in 2006. That year, he was voted Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” in New England and was also named to the Boston Business Journal’s “40 under 40″ list. He’ll address his experiences at m-Qube.

Keynote:

Jeff Glass – Bain Capital Ventures

Ajay Agarwal – Bain Capital Ventures

Speakers:

Mihael Mikek, President and CEO – Celtra

Bryan Barletta, Director of Marketing – AppVee

Casey Jones, VP of Business Development – MocoSpace

Jorey Ramer, Founder and VP Corporate Development – Jumptap

David Nowicki, VP Marketing and Product Management – Airvana

Date: Monday, January 12th, 7-9pm – drinks will be served.
Cost: Free – but registration is required to attend. Register Now.
Location: Langham Hotel, 250 Franklin St., Boston – Map
MBTA: Choose your poison – Park Street, State Street, Downtown Crossing, State, South Station…
Park: $9 at Post Office Square across the street.

Thanks again to our sponsor Bain Capital Ventures for making this event possible.

Xconomy has published a list of the local mobile organizations that comprise the Greater Boston Mobile Technology Cluster.

It’s worth noting that in all of Xconomy’s other tech clusters combined – music, video, robots, and health 2.0 – there are about 100 companies. There are 150 companies in the mobile tech cluster alone.

This month, Mobile Monday hosted a CTO dinner to bring together technical leaders from Boston’s mobile companies. The dinner was sponsored by Flybridge Capital and moderated by Xconomy’s Wade Roush.

Over dinner our discussion covered the future of mobile platforms, market fragmentation, the mobile web, what consumers want, and much more. To hear what the CTOs have to say about the mobile industry in Boston and the future of mobile, check out our video:

MOMO Boston CTO Dinner from Chris Brackett on Vimeo.

Mobile Monday 11.17 from Chris Brackett on Vimeo.

Join us on November 17th, at the Omni Parker rooftop ballroom, and see 10 early stage mobile companies demonstrate their new mobile products. Each new company will provide a rapid-fire 5 minute presentation, followed by a social cocktail hour with product demonstrations.

Our keynote speaker, Tom Erickson, has experience starting and running companies in the best and worst of times including MRO Software during the recession of 1991 and WebMethods in 2000.  He’ll review the current economic situation and outline steps to help drive young mobile companies through rough seas. Tom is the Chief Product Officer for TeleAtlas, a member of Common Angels, a board member of SeeWhy, Quickcomm, and Acquia, and a advisor to iTKO.

Presenting are 10 mobile companies:

• Assured Labor:  A social marketplace for services utilizing web and mobile technology
• Cadio:  Location-based behavior-targeted mobile advertising
• Drync
• Mobegic:  Help retailers and consumer product companies deepen customer engagements  through their mobile phones
• Padpaw:  Helping groups organize using text messaging and mobile web
• Pongr:  Mobile price checking that uses innovative image search technology
• RunKeeper:  Mobile GPS fitness tracking applications for runners and cyclists
• SCVNGR:  A mobile gaming platform that lets anyone quickly and easily build out sophisticated mobile games
• Shovebox:  Manage snippets of information across your desktop and iPhone
• Urban Interactive:  Mobile applications that connect the digital world with physical spaces

Date: November 17th, 2008, 7-9pm

Cost: Free

Register now.

Location: Omni Parker Hotel – Rooftop Ballroom with an amazing view (details below)
60 School Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108
Map
MBTA: Park Street Station (Green / Red), State Station (Orange / Blue), about 10 minute walk from North or South station
Parking for $12: http://www.pialleygarage.com

Thanks to our sponsor Goodwin Procter for making this event possible.

Mobile Monday Boston chapter is participating to the Mobile Monday Peer Awards 2009.

Here more information about the Mobile Monday Peer Awards:

“The Mobile Monday Mobile Peer Awards Barcelona are among the most influential events in the mobile industry and, with over 1000 attendants, the point of reference in startup innovation during the Mobile World Congress. If you are an innovative startup you have an opportunity to make it big by presenting in front of investors, operators, media companies, and everyone else in the mobile value chain, press and influential bloggers and your peer entrepreneurs.”

We are encouraging all mobile start-ups who are part of the Mobile Monday Boston community to participate.
Here are the requirements to participate to the Mobile Monday Peer Awards:

• Create your company page by November 30th and register your start up to participate in the Peer Awards.
• Company MUST attend the Mobile World Congress at its own expenses.

The voting for Mobile Monday Boston nominees will be conducted between December 1st and 14th.
One start-up will be selected On December 15th and will be the Mobile Monday Boston nominee to the Mobile Monday Peer Awards.

If you have any questions please contact us at: info@momoboston.com

Thanks
Mobile Monday Boston team

Join us for a reception at Mobile Internet World 2008, Wed Oct 22nd at 6:30pm, Boston Convention Center, Room 0-51, organized with MoMo NY and MITX. Cash bar.

Featuring:

>> Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner
>> Thi Linh Wernau, Senior Mobile Strategist at Nokia Interactive Advertising

This reception is free for MoMo members. Registration: Click Here

We have arranged a $200.00 discount on your behalf for Mobile Internet World – Boston, October 21-23, 2008. Expo passes are free and can be picked up at the door. Join 175+ executives from the mobile internet ecosystem including Google, Intel, Qualcomm and others. Grab your share of this $66 billion opportunity. Your code for Mobile Internet World: MIWMS9.

Registration:

http://www.mobilenetx.com/?page_id=19

More info:

http://www.mobilenetx.com/2008/boston/