MobileMonday

The Mobile Premier Awards announces the 20 finalists to the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation: The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers in partnership with MobileMonday, the global community of mobile professionals.

The finalists were chosen by an international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts who will pitch their idea, application or project at the Mobile Premier Awards event that takes place in Barcelona, at the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on February 15, 2010 in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, and press and influential bloggers.

(We sent one nomination to MPA, but this year Indonesia didn’t make it to the finals).

The year’s MPA best in Mobile Startup innovation Finalists are:

MobileMonday Austria – Mobilizy

MobileMonday Barcelona – fonYou

MobileMonday Berlin – spendino

MobileMonday Bogota – RedSalvavidas

MobileMonday Chennai – mobiSiteGalore

MobileMonday Copenhagen – Cepa Mobility

MobileMonday Edinburgh – Mobile Acuity

MobileMonday Estonia – TaxiPal

MobileMonday Lithuania – SendFlow

MobileMonday London – Audioboo

MobileMonday Milan – Soundtrckr

MobileMonday Munich – Aloqa

MobileMonday New Delhi – Voicetap Technologies

MobileMonday New York – PercentMobile

MobileMonday Oslo – Bipper Communication

MobileMonday Rest of EMEA – Layar

MobileMonday Silicon Valley – CloudMade

MobileMonday Slovenia – Visionect

MobileMonday Stockholm – MoSync

MobileMonday Tel Aviv – waze

The finalists chosen to the Innovation Awards will present along with the winners in the other categories chosen by our partner networks (see below).

You can follow their activities here on this MPA Finalist Twitter List.

Barcelona?

If you happen to be in Barcelona this February, please make sure to attend the MPA awarding ceremony… for details please check: link

Friends of MobileMonday Indonesia,

Please use this rare opportunity and attend the first ever Mobile Marketing Association Briefing on Mobile Marketing Opportunity in Indonesia, brought to you through collaboration among Mobile Marketing Association, Frost & Sullivan, MobileMonday Indonesia, M-Stars, and Bubu.com. Meet with all the major mobile marketing players in Indonesia, the telcos, case studies from brands (Axe and Green Sands), learn the latest technology in mobile marketing (augmented reality?) and more..

The Briefing will take place at:

• Date: Thursday, 12 November 2009
• Time: 14.00 – 17.00
• Place: Hotel Mulia (Ballroom 1)
  (co-located with Frost & Sullivan Indonesian Telecoms International Summit 2009)

If you are in the mobile advertising business, coming from an agency or a brand looking to know more about mobile marketing, make sure you did not missed the opportunities.

Seats are very limited and we are almost at full house. See you there!

This year, Indonesia is honored to have BioLocate shortlisted as Top 20 Finalist and invited to present in MobileMonday Peer Awards 2009 in Barcelona. The team from BioLocate unable to make it to Barcelona due to the short notice, but they are managed to make a short video presentation and was playbacked in front  of the jury in Barcelona. Although BioLocate did not win, I am happy that we are the only representative from South East Asia to make it to the final.

BioLocate at Peer Awards 2009

The Mobile Peer Awards is a wonderful event, attended by estimated 1000 audience and was opened by keynote from Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Markets at Nokia and Member of the Nokia Group Executive Board. We have audience from all over the world, including developers, startups, venture capitals, media, and government officials. I met a big team from Malaysian MDEC, but unable to find anyone else from Indonesia (or Indonesia government … well, maybe next year we’ll send official invitation).

For those of you who would like to know how the finalists “wow” the jury during Peer Awards, I would like to share a video of Unkasoft, one of the audience favorite doing all the tricks (including “Tiger Jump”) to visualize their solution within the strict 3 minutes pitch. Enjoy!

Congratulations to PT BioLocate Indonesia with the application FIREANTS which passed the first round of MobileMonday Global Peer Awards. A total of 163 entries submitted from around the world which has now been shortlisted to 43 nominees, including the Indonesia’s bioLocate, and other heavy weight contenders such as aka-aki (Berlin), fring (TelAviv), Getjar (Lithuania), Mocospace (Boston), Nimbuzz (Amsterdam), Palringo (London), SoonR (Silicon Valley), and WorldMate (Atlanta). The jury are now sitting in to select the top 20 finalist which will be invited to do a live presentation in Barcelona on February 16, 2008 in front of international audience.

The competition for top 20 are quite tough, however I’m quite confident bioLocate can steal jury’s attention as the idea is quite unique as compare to the others. Who need more IM client? We want something new, innovative and relevant to our mobile life. And I put my vote behind bioLocate! BTW the top 20 list will be announced on January 26, 2009 (Chinese New Year!)

To Pak Dien, Pak Hindra & bioLocate team. Congratulations from MobileMonday Indonesia Team!
I am sure to see you in Barcelona!

Head here to see the annoncement : http://www.mobilepeerawards.com/

Due to the many requests by chapters, the startup registration for MobileMonday Peer Awards has been EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 31, 2008 midnight local time. Meaning, this will give you more time to prepare for your slides and submit your nomination. So far many chapters already have registered startups: Buenos Aires (top ranking in registered startups, so far!), Boston, Berlin, Sweden, Belfast, Dublin, Jakarta, New York, Chennai, Mumbai, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Madrid and Barcelona.

Here’s the process that will follow :

1. After Dec 31, 2008 :
   Startup registration will be closed (no more further extension)! MobileMonday Indonesia will shortlist the candidates which will represent Indonesia for the international jury round. Check the “how to participate” page for further details on the participation and registration process.
2. After January 19, 2009 :
   An international jury consist of renowned industry experts, investors and entrepreneur will select the final 20 finalists that will present on stage on February 16, 2009. Last year’s jury included representatives from Telefónica, Vodafone, Google, Yahoo!, AdMob, MobHappy, GoMoNews, Nexit Ventures, and Xtract.
3. February 16, 2009 :
   Selected 20 companies will do their presentation on stage, in front of international audience and jury panel in Barcelona. Winner of MobileMonday Peer Awards 2009 will be selected and crowned. Previous MobileMonday Peer Awards winners include Realeyes 3D, Mobile Complete (now Device Anywhere) and Plazes in 2007; Buzzd, Funambol, Taptu and Kimia in 2008 (Winners’ Circle page here).

MobileMonday Peer Awards Process

MobileMonday Chapter organizers will look look at three criteria when making their decision:

• Originality, creativity and innovativeness
• Technical and operational feasibility
• Economic and financial viability

Participation is free of charge and open to any startup willing to pay their way to the event (i.e. in Barcelona on February 16, 2009)

Anyone can sign up to the Mobile Peer Awards website to view startups and follow the competition.

Should you need more info, please drop us a message: info [at] mobilemonday.co.id. We also open for any sponsorship opportunities!

Happy Ied Mubarak! Hope that everyone had a good holiday season. After 1 month break during fasting month, MobileMonday is now back again. We have some interesting announcements to make, so let’s get started!

New Website & Blog :
Yes! We have revamped our website at http://www.mobilemonday.co.id. The new website is more streamline, hosting information about MobileMonday Indonesia, event line up and download section. The blog section had now been moved out to its own URL at http://blog.mobilemonday.co.id. There’s also a new section in our blog called “Talk to Peer” which allow you to connect to other community member of MobileMonday Indonesia via online means. Have a look and test it out!

Invitation for Volunteers :
It is almost 1 year since initial inception of MobileMonday Indonesia and so far we have launched 10 events with distinguished speakers from all over the world. Through our events and publications we had  reached few thousands audience from over 400 companies in Indonesia. More interested projects are coming in pipeline. We are looking for all kind of help, from organizing events, writing in our blogs, or any other initiatives which you think may benefits the community. Should you be interested to volunteer in MoMo, please contact us at info(at)mobilemonday.co.id.

Upcoming Events :
There’s so many interesting things happen in past month, including launch of Android and unveling of Nokia Touch UI. We will have something very exciting in store for you. Consider it at first peek to the future of mobile technology (hint?). Make sure you keep on eye for any new announcement at MobileMonday blog (http://blog.mobilemonday.co.id) as it will be a major disappointment if you missed out!

Calling All Innovator!
If you are developer and working on an interesting mobile application, make sure you sign up for “Calling All Innovators”. It is a contest from Forum Nokia to look for the next killer application for mobile phone. Winner will walk away with USD 10,000 cash prize + opportunity to showcase your application at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. Closing date is December 15, 2008. See details below or go to http://www.callingallinnovators.com.

That’s for now. Welcome back to work and see you soon in MoMo upcoming events.

Found on the recent Carnival of the Mobilist… Paul Ruppert of Mobile Point View conducted an insightful interview with Jari Tammisto, CEO and Founder of MobileMonday.

For those who are interested to understand the MoMo movement, vision, and our plans, check out the interview. Here’s the link to the podcast: link

Buzzd from New York, a provider of local real-time search information for bars, clubs and restaurants on the mobile device, cleaned the table by winning jury, audience and community awards under the early stage category at the MobileMondy Peer Awards in Barcelona.

In the Emerging Community category, Taptu a search and sharing engine from London won the award with Funambol, an open source email and messaging company, while local favorite Kimia, a rich media content provider, clinched the audience choice.

December 13, 2007 — Helsinki, Finland and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — MobileMonday (MoMo), the global community of over 70,000 mobile industry visionaries and developers, today announced it will invite the worlds most exciting and innovative mobile companies to attend the 4th annual Global Summit in Kuala Lumpur from May 18 – 22, 2008. MobileMonday’s unique cross-border platform has proven to generate real business opportunities via cooperative relationships with the Open Mobile Alliance and GSMA, which represents 700 mobile operators and 200-technology partners worldwide. The upcoming event, the first ever to be held in Asia, will be co-located with the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2008) conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur next year.

Kuala Lumpur is set to be the point of convergence for the largest-ever gathering of global leaders and decision makers on information and communications technology. Held once every two years, WCIT is the premier global forum that brings together leaders in business, government and academia to impact economic and social development through the exchange of policies and ideas on technology. WCIT 2008 is expected to be the point of convergence for more than 2,500 participants from over 80 countries worldwide. Keynote speakers are expected to include some of the most respected and admired names in the industry. WCIT 2008 is jointly organized by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (PIKOM), with the support of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia.

MobileMonday Malaysian chapter founder RamG and Chairman Dr Arun Kumar have been working closely with MdeC CEO Dato’ Badlisham Ghazali and MobileMonday CEO Jari Tammisto to make this event a truly global and rewarding experience for Malaysia as this gathering will bring International Experts together in an dynamic setting with Local ICT and Mobile Players.

MobileMonday recognizes that majority of future innovations in the mobile development happens in small companies. Typically these start-ups don’t attend conferences and seminars as they are expensive and offer few opportunities for new comers. However, one of the central features of the MobileMonday Global Summit is that it also invites selected leaders and prestigious influencers from industry giants to join the discussions and networking. This ensures the discussions are valuable, interesting, and always inspirational.

MobileMonday has the following global objectives:

• To encourage innovation within the mobile sector.
• To facilitate networking between small and large companies, and between local and foreign organizations.
• To help local companies effectively participate in international initiatives through the import and export of visions, concepts, technologies, know-how and best practices.
• To present innovative visions, trends, studies and forecasts from the mobile marketplace.
• To facilitate and create partnerships.
• To contribute to the education of the broader public through its publications, online presence, and media partnerships.

The MobileMonday community is a grassroots living laboratory of ideas, demos, pilots, benchmarking, and business development. The goal is to enable the membership to meet with their peers in order to encourage smart ideas to develop into commercially successful products and services.

About MobileMonday:

MobileMonday (http://www.mobilemonday.net) is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential individuals fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. MobileMonday has over 50 chapter cities around the world, and continues to launch new locations monthly. MobileMonday is organized by a group of some 200+ dedicated volunteers from around the world. Originating in Helsinki, Finland, in the year 2000, MobileMonday has grown into the world’s leading mobile community.

About WCIT:

Held once every two years, the World Congress on Information Technology is a premier global ICT forum that brings together global leaders in business, government and academia. Often billed as the Olympics of ICT, it impacts global economic and social development through the exchange of policies and ideas on technology. WCIT 2008 is jointly organized by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (PIKOM), with the support of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia. For more information visit http://www.wcit2008.org