MobileMonday Brisbane

We’re thrilled to announce and confirm Keith Ahern from MoGeneration will speak at the MobileMonday Brisbane event on May 18th.  Keith’s topic will be:

“Pick me! Pick  me!  Getting ahead in the Apple App Store”

AIMIA event registration details and links can be found in the previous post. You must register for the AIMIA event to attend MobileMonday Brisbane this month. We hope to see you there!

MobileMonday Brisbane continues to gain momentum! A good-sized audience gathered at i.lab’s Toowong offices to network, have a few drinks, and check out a series of showcase presentations from some of Brisbane’s mobile innovators. The showcase format – 8 slides, 4 minutes – allowed a great mix of products, technologies and mobile media to be shared in an interactive environment.

Sam Collins from Locatrix

The first speaker was Barefoot Software’s Mike Hillsdon, who presented Barefoot’s on-device portal publishing solutions. Mike drew on Barefoot’s experience with major brands, showing interactive mobile catalogs and shopping carts they have created for companies such as Country Road & Mercedes Benz.

Next up was Sam Collins from Locatrix Communications. Sam presented Salamander, a Locatrix-developed Mobile Device Attribute Detection system. Salamander lets mobile developers access mobile handset attributes (screen size & resolution, browser type, supported J2ME etc) in real-time via a web service, allowing revision-controlled updates from the public WURFL data file. It also allows for application- or network-specific extension attributes, which helps your application and content to be optimized for each target handset.

Chris Kettle from My247

MobileMonday Brisbane co-founder Chris Kettle then presented My247’s forthcoming mobile and web projects, including a social network publishing and QRcode links for every venue to send mobile handset users click directly onto a venue’s mobile site. This approach helps both in usability – you can invite your friends to a specific venue to meet – and also in driving traffic to a venue’s mobile site for special offers, forthcoming event details etc.

Finally, SMS Fun’s Creative Director Matt Ascough  presented their free SMS mobile portal community. SMS Fun lets users send free SMS to their friends, recharge their pre-paid mobile accounts and much more.

Chris Kettle closed the formal part of the event by announcing a must-attend event: AIMIA Queensland is holding a “great debate” entitled Can your mobile phone save the planet? The event will be held at QPAC in Southbank from 4:30pm on Monday 18th May, the debate will be followed by networking drinks and then Mobile Monday’s May meeting. We’ll post more details here and at the various social networks in the next week – it promises to be a very entertaining evening.

A big thanks to our speakers and everyone who attended – it was agreed that the mobile community in Brisbane is certainly gaining momentum. Thanks too to i.lab for again providing the venue, and Locatrix Communications for sponsoring the evening’s refreshments. See you next month for another Mobile Monday!

Are you doing stuff in mobile? Showcase your Brisbane based business / start-up / initiative / project as Mobile Monday Brisbane presents why Brisbane is lighting up Australia’s heat-map at Mobile Monday on April 20th . It’s straight in and out as each entity has 4 minutes (8 slides) to show what’s happening. Get feedback & praise from your peers, or come along and see what’s happening locally in Mobile.

Nominations are still open so if you wish to present or you know someone who should present then tell the MoMoBne team here .

The event will again be held at i.lab, Level 1, 80 Jephson Street Toowong. (Near Toowong Village and railway station) from 6pm on Monday, April 20th. Please RSVP to rsvp@mobilemondaybrisbane.com by Friday 17th April.

We hope to see you there!

Last night’s MoMoBNE meeting was well attended, despite some members arriving rain-soaked due to a Brisbane thunderstorm. The meeting was held at i.lab in Toowong, in Brisbane’s inner west, and featured a couple of informal presentations, a well-thumbed Android G1, and lots of friendly exchanges over beer and snacks.

Peter Allison kicked off proceedings with a brief presentation about the i.lab Incubator, our hosts for the evening. i.lab provides it’s clients with professional, smart-office space and support services, helping companies raise capital, access grants and grow their businesses.  In it’s 9th year, i.lab has helped over 95 companies access more than $75 million dollars in capital and grant programs, creating nearly 500 jobs in the process, and is a clear success story for the Queensland Government.

Locatrix Communications CEO Mark White then gave an overview of the recent GSMA Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, from a look at the venue to some of the major announcements (and stolen mobiles!) featured during the congress.

Finally Dale Rankine from Moket showcased a group of Adobe-related announcements from the MWC, including the Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player, the Adobe Mobile Packager, and two programs designed to help mobile developers gain access to funding and distribution for their content: the Flash Lite Developer Challenge, and the Open Screen Fund (run by Adobe and Nokia).

While attendance was less than planned – we expect the rain caused havoc with some transport plans – the meeting was enjoyable and informative. Thanks again to Peter Allison and i.lab for supporting MoMo Brisbane!

The next MoMoBNE event will be held on Monday, April 20th – stay tuned for details.