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It was great fun moderating a panel discussion on mobile social networking as part of MoMoVan May 2008. Fun bantering with Jim Udall, Jeff LaPorte and David Vogt!

Some random points:

• I loved David's vigorous defense of Vancouver and his wonderful case for mobile innovation in Vancouver no need to move to Asia! Perhaps our "mobile crisis" is a temporary aberration as I blurted out at one point? Vancouver does have a lot going on: great educational institutions, great social and cultural scenes, great weather and great public spaces (at least in the city of Vancouver, not much in the suburbs but this will change).
• The crowd at MoMoVan with a few glaring exceptions isn't really into social mobile networking. Not too much mobile real time blogging, twittering or facebooking or qik video or real time flickr-ing or whatever going on at the MoMoVan events I've attended. At least that's my sense. Prove me wrong! Twitter me (rtanglao) or leave a comment!
• The crowd at MoMoVan is into the traditional one-way web and old skool two way stuff like email, IM and posting pictures in non real time. I know because I took a poll at the start of the panel
• Mobile provides context
• Mobile can be socially enlivening public spaces instead of distancing or cocooning
• The discussion was recorded by Bruce Sharpe. Hopefully he'll post the video soon

I'm helping a wee bit with the re-launch on October 1st in a more informal style like Steph and Bryan did for the original Mobile Monday Vancouver way back in January 2006. Register today, it's free; see you at Granville Island Brewing Company at Granville Island on October 1st at 6p.m!
From MOBILE MONDAY VANCOUVER, October 1, 2007 | Bryght:

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Roland Tanglao is helping organize MoMoVan October 2007! (event on upcoming)

Every first Monday of the month 100 of the smartest local minds will share their ideas in places that we all love. The new WINBC Mobile Monday Vancouver (MoMoVan) starting Monday, October 1st is going back to its grass roots origins. FROM HELSINKI’S MOMO GLOBAL SUMMIT TO VANCOUVER’S LOCAL INNOVATORS Are you an interested, opinionated developer, entrepreneur, CEO, Ph.D or student ready to share with others your thoughts, ideas, and solutions around our local wireless industry and Web 2.0 community? Are you ready to have fun? How about free pizza, free beer (1st round), and free parking? We have listened to people like you and developed an event that YOU want:

* To enable an open conversation that is relevant to the wireless and Web 2.0 community in Vancouver and BC

* To facilitate opportunities for casual networking, identifying local talent, building strategic partnerships and business development

* To promote local innovation and collaboration in the wireless and Web 2.0 industry from small start-ups to large companies to research labs

* To have FUN

** You must register, even if you are not paying a fee, by Friday, September 28, 2007. **

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Due to a babysitting snafu (which is entirely my fault), I won't be able to make tonight's Mobile Monday Vancouver! No matter, I am sure they will do fine without me. I hear over 20 are registered. It's free! All you have to is register (the event is on upcoming.org as well but you need to register) Could somebody please blog, podcast and videoblog tonight's event for those who can't attend? See you at the next MoMoVan!

From MoMoVan » Blog Archive » WINBC presents Mobile Monday Vancouver: Multimedia and User-Generated Content:

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Date: June 5, 2006. 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Marmalade Kitchen & Bar, 3 - 1010 Beach Avenue

As 3G phones and networks start to penetrate into the existing 2G user base, the shift for data hungry services and broadband opportunities are now at the tipping point for all kinds of new opportunities on mobile.

This month Mobile Monday discusses the opportunities for multimedia services within the mobile Vancouver community. We will have 4 speakers followed by a panel to discuss different aspects of multimedia with mobile devices.

Speakers:

* McLean Mashingaidze-Greaves - Founder and President, The Nimble Company
* Jim Fawcett - President, Exponentia
* Patrick Payne - Founder and President MoPhone
* William Mutual - Chair, ComVu
* Caroline Lewko - Founder and President Wireless Industry Partnership and Chair, WINBC

Please register to attend this month’s event (registration via WINBC)
Note: there is plenty of parking available at the Aquatic Centre.

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[Cross posted from MoMo Van]

Mobile Monday Vancouver May 2006 last night at Take 5 was an eclectic potpourri of topics and very lively conversation. Here are my highlights:

Matthew Snyder of Nokia is a former big wig of Nokia Search but has now moved on to other cool projects in Nokia. His current job is in Helsinki but he's based in Vancouver! Talk about a commute. He was a lively and fascinating conversationalist. Matthew demoed the Nokia/Yahoo Search app on his N70 together with some cool Canadian local integration which has not yet been released but I can't wait until it does. And I hope Matthew will start blogging!

Jim Pick showed off his 2 (!) Nokia 770s that he picked up when he was living in Berkley. The 770 is an awesome WiFi mini tablet (would be better if Gizmo and Skype were bundled!). I really wish it was sold in Canada. Anyways Jim who recently moved back to Vancouver has worked on the ARM port of Linux, Xen Virtualization and the Kaffe Java virtual machine. Jim's a great addition to the mobile community. Welcome back Jim!

Carlo of Upside Wireless discussed their SMS related work with the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale and plans for the IPIPI SMS engine

Duff Gardner of New Media BC's Mobile Muse project gave us the skinny about the upcoming mobile related talks at Vidfest (I wish there was a schedule for Vidfest 2006 that I could link to, but until then here's the Vidfest 2006 Speaker list) as well as some insight into the new World Centre for Digital Entertainment that New Media BC is working on.

Patrick Payne, ex of Mobile Operandi/Mophone/3GUPLOAD and Ericsson, was also a lively conversationalist. He spoke about the Wireless lab that will be part of the World Centre and the plans for taking MoMoVan to the next level after learning from the mother ship at the Mobile Monday Global Summit May 8th and May 9th, 2006 in Helsinki, Finland.

Speaking of the MoMo Summit, Steph Rieger (who along with Bryan has done 99% of the MoMoVan organizing, I just pontificate and blog :-) !) will be there with Patrick and is also hoping to learn from the MoMo Mothership. She and Bryan also discussed Flash Lite as well their ideas for a Bluetooth server.

I of course pontificated about the greatness of ShoZu (my ShoZu pics and videos) the N70 Nokia Blogger Relations program and how I was saving for my own N93 dream phone (3x optical zoom, 30fps video!)

John Goodall of LiteFeeds (a cool mobile RSS reader) made a brief appearance and then mysteriously left (work or family called I bet). Come back John!

Finally, we spent a long time discussing the next MoMoVan which will be Monday June 5th at a venue to be determined and what the next phase of MoMoVan looks like. If you are interested in helping shape and influence Mobile Monday Vancouver, it's never too late. Sign up for the Yahoo Grooup MoMoVan group and get your skin in the game! Looking for organizers, speakers, and sponsors! Looking forward to hearing from you!

See you in June!

See you there! RSVP over at upcoming.

FROM MoMoVan » Blog Archive » Mobile Monday on a Tuesday?:

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Completely breaking with tradition we’re going to hold Mobile Monday on a Tuesday next month. While there aren’t going to be any formal presentations or demos, you can count on some great conversation about mobile technology, lifestyle and general industry buzz. Remember to bring business cards for any networking opportunities.

We’d also like to take a few minutes of the meeting to discuss the future of Mobile Monday Vancouver as well as solicit any and all suggestions and ideas.

So, without further rambling on my part - the next Mobile Monday Vancouver meeting will take place at the Take 5 Cafe at Granville and Hastings on TUESDAY May 2nd, 2006 at 6:00 - 8:00pm.

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I am sure this is old news to some, but Antony Pranata, a Nokia employee at Nokia's lab here in Vancouver (unfortunately they are in suburban Richmond and Burnaby and not Vancouver so I don't see them at our "second office" Take 5 Cafe :-) ! ) is blogging, both S60Tips, a mobile blog as well as a personal blog. Are there any other Nokia Vancouver people blogging? I have personally been underwhelmed by the amount of blogging from the local Nokia folks and the amount of involvement at Vancouver grassroots activities like Mobile Monday Vancouver, but hope lives on! Perhaps with Antony's cool example and the fact that the N91 has shipped (which I believe was developed partially in Vancouver), the Vancouver folks will start coming out more! Love to see you and love to meet you all! (Antony wir können unser Deutsch üben! I see you did your masters in Germany in Stuttgart not far from Friedrichshafen where I lived from 95-98!)

Watch the Video

More great discussion at the March 2006 MoMoVan tonight. Check out the video above of Steph's presentation (well 30 seconds of it anyway on Visual Radio) as well as the flickr photos and the coverage on the official MoMoVan site.

See you at Take 5 Monday March 6, 2006 at 6:30p.m.

From March Event: Mobile Music and Copyright.:

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Mobile Monday Vancouver - March Event
Monday, March 6, 2006 (6:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
Take 5 Cafe, 429 Granville Street

Follow via Upcoming.org

This time around we're going to follow Helsinki's lead and discussion topic on mobile music and copyright. We're not going to have formal presenters this time around as this is a discussion that we can all contribute to - however, I will ensure a projector is available for anyone packing a quick and informal presentation on the topic. I'm sure the guys from Bryght and ProjectOpus will have a lot to add to this conversation, and would expect to gain some great insight as to the future of digital music.

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The secret to mobile photo uploading is indeed Shozu (and an unlimited mobile data plan!). Thanks Bryan! And demoing Shozu at the Feb 2006 MoMoVan was fun!

Watch my 30 second video with Dave Shea, Bill Tam, Jeff LaPorte, Bryan and Steph Rieger and posted in "real time" (takes about 10 minutes using glacially slow GPRS to transfer via Shozu) to show the use of Shozu.

I demoed Shozu (and recapped my journey from buying my grey market 7610 for my 40th birthday using my own money to using email to upload photos to Flickr, to using Hugin and Mugin (Java midlet to upload pictures to flickr developed by my friend and ace programmer, Simon Lewis) and being frustrated by the low res pictures from the 7610's crippled Java implementation of the camera APIs to uploading photos 4 at a time using Lifeblog to today's Shozu happiness!) tonight and we had a great Eqo demo and presentation from Jeff LaPorte.