Keith is a seasoned internet entrepreneur with over 12 years of innovative software and service development. Before founding MoGeneration Keith was Mobile Technology Manager for News Ltd where he was responsible for mobile platforms, strategy, development and vendor management. Keith helped grow News Ltd’s mobile business from simple SMS services to engaging mobile websites with million’s of page views each month. Keith started working for pioneering web company Netscape in Silicon Valley working on the Navigator browser and later worked for Philips Research and Development where he was granted 2 US patents

Oliver Weidlich – Mobile Customer Experience Specialist, Ideal Interfaces

Oliver draws on a background in psychology, experience in usability and understanding of mobile technology to identify key issues for client business strategy, and customers, and to recommend & design solutions.  He has a wide range of experience evaluating and improving the end-to-end customer experience with mobile devices, portals, applications and content. Oliver has consulted to clients such as; Hutchison, Optus, Telstra, ninemsn, ABC, MySpace and RPO.

As part of the local mobile industry Oliver is playing a key role in the design and project management of the Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index, which looks at mobile content usage in the local market, a project on behalf of the AIMIA Mobile Content Industry Development Group.  He also co-hosts Mobile Monday Sydney, a mobile focused networking night.

In addition, Oliver is a judge, author and speaker on the mobile customer experience.

Keith (@pubzak) and Oliver (@oliverw) will both be presenting in Mobile Monday May 18 at the Riverside Function Room QPAC.  This is a combined event with AIMIA Queensland – first the great debate, followed by some networking drinks, and then the start of Mobile Monday Brisbane.

MoMo Brisbanites will need register for this event!  Don’t forget to use the promo code PLANET.

See you all there!

Mobile Monday Brisbane

“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!

Please note that MobileMonday members must register for the AIMIA event to attend this month. Event details and registration links are here, or click on the image above.

We hope to see you there!

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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!

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!

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.

Agenda-wise we’ll provide an overview of what went down in Barcelona last month at the Mobile World Congress, and then open the floor to a number of demos, discussions, and Q&A about all things mobile.  Afterwards, the discussions can keep going downstairs in the Jaz Bar.  If you’d like to demo or profile a specific mobile product, please drop us a note before the meeting!

Yes, we finally have a website – look for news and meeting announcements to be posted here in coming days.  For now, keep Monday 16th March free (evening) for the next Mobile Monday Brisbane meeting.

Cheers

The MoMoBrisbane Team
mmb-team@mobilemondaybrisbane.com