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)

At 3GSM World Congress: “MobileMonday Global Peer Awards 2007 on Monday, February 12th starting at 3PM. This is your chance to meet some of the world’s best mobile innovations. Selected by industry peers, peer award finalists will compete live before the community and a world-class jury.

Visit MoMo Barcelona site for more information.

Yesterday’s meeting was a great meeting and the topic was really interesting. We wanted to thank again the speakers for their presentations. The meeting was recorded and you can view the recording here.

We are working on next meeting which should be January 8th, so stay tuned for more information in the upcoming days.

Thanks

Mobile Monday Boston will be meeting on December 11th at MIT Sloan (Room E51-335), adjourning afterwards to Characters Bar.

When: December 11th 2006 at 7.00 PM
What: Mobile Interfaces
Cost: Free

Live Streaming: here at 7PM (Enter as a guest)
Speakers:

• Mark Connon, CEO of Digit Wireless
• Julian Orbanes, Founder of GeoPhoenix

Where: MIT Sloan (Room E51-335)

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.

Due to the density of mobile related events this month including Mobile 2.0 and the MocoNews Mixer, we are pushing our next MoMo until December. Details will be coming shortly.

I’ve uploaded the metrics presentations from Monday night.

We had some great speakers this past Monday, thanks to all who attended and especially Sanji, John, Ryan, and Kevin for their very informative presentations.

Thanks also to Jeff Hunt for the phone projector. He asked me to let everyone know Project-A-Phone is offering a 10% discount to MoMo members (just use the keyword MoMo).

Here the recording of the meeting and presentations. — Alessandro

Hey everyone. Mobile Monday is coming up next week (October 16th) at MIT Sloan. Here’s the rundown…

Widsets is being called the best example of Web 2.0 on the phone. After months of buzz, they officially launched last week and Sanji Fernando will be here to show us how to get widgets on the handset.

And we’ll have three premier providers of mobile metrics to provide us with real data on what’s happening in the mobile industry:

• John Jackson, M:Metrics
• Ryan Burke, Compete
• Kevin Burden, Telephia

If any of you have mobile data points that you’ve been waiting to get your hands on, please show up with questions. We’ll set aside plenty of time for Q&A.

**Apologies for those who tried to register using Evite, we ran into some technical difficulties. All are welcome whether or not you signed up.**

When: October, Monday 16th at 7PM

Cost: free!

Where: At MIT Sloan, room E51-395, 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.

Live Streaming: here at 7PM (Enter as a guest)

Projection courtesy of Project-A-Phone.