Mobile Monday Delhi May 26, 2007

Mobile Monday Delhi May 26, 2007

Hey Folks… attended a mobile monday, Delhi– my first mobile monday.

My tone of writing this is informal– and I’m not sure if this article will fit in with VentureWoods… but having noticed lots of pre-event buzz but a total lack of post-event coverage of previous Mobile-Mondays/Bar-Camps- I strongly felt someone should write this event and hence I’m writing in– comments, rants, requests for more info may be addressed to nsnsns(at)gmail(dot)com .

The organizers… were Prashant Singh & Amit Ranjan (thx guys) … and space;coffee; lunch was courtesy Adobe Systems India (thx Adobe!!!).

Here’s a photo and a short write-up– if you were there or if you want to be there next time or if you just generally have a opinion; feel free to comment… or mail me and ask you to inform of the next mobile monday…

Mobile Monday-3 at Delhi Was held at Adobe Systems’ Noida Office on May 26, 2007- pic by Nalin nsnsns(at)gmail(dot)com

There were about 40 or 50 people and there were some interesting presentations.

Though yeah; as mobile monday history & culture internationally goes, here’s a history snippet:-
begin history snippet — source: http://www.mobilemonday.net/about —
The remarkable MobileMonday phenomenon began almost by accident in Helsinki, Finland during the autumn of 2000. A couple of well-known Finnish visionaries, invited the who’s who of the Finnish mobile industry to a pub for an informal get-together and perhaps a warming drink. The only suitable time? Monday evening.

After meeting many new faces and discussing the latest in mobility, the group decided to continue meeting on the first Monday of each month — and thus, MobileMonday was born. Towards the end of 2004, the movement started to spread to other areas of the world and new MoMo chapters were started in Tokyo, Japan, Silicon Valley, UsA as well as Rome and Milan, Italy. Since then, the number of MobileMonday chapters and members has dramatically increased making MobileMonday the world’s leading mobile community.
end-history-snippet—

Since the culture of a ‘after hours drink’ is for most part absent in delhi/north india- mobile mondays here tend to be day long events and held on saturdays.

turn-ons:– it was very generous of adobe to offer cold-drinks/coffee & lunch & thanks organizing team for organizing a great event.

turn-offs:–
1) not enough demos; not enough folks with memory cards out to copy their demos/products for folks to try out [lol!!! does that really happen ? or is that just part of international un-conference folk-lore ?]
2) not enough face-time with others.
3) harsh cut-offs in question-answer sessions including one where the organizers insisted on switching off all the lights to cut a question-answer session short– that was a slap in the face of the idea of a un-conference… need I say more ?

Interesting Talks…

(1) Aditya Dev Sood – www.cks.in — design ideas applicable to the Indian context- including interesting research that helped shape some features of the current crop of Nokia Phones– India-style charger wall-socket plugs; multiple phone-books for situations where a mobile is shared by multiple family members.

(2) Asif Ali www.mobile-worx.com — ZestADZ (www.zestadz.com) ad serving platform on mobiles…

(3) Shekhar C–> lots of interesting post talk discussion & philosphical exchange– and Meghdoot a Indian language SMS text input engine for j2me enabled mobiles.
Also; t9 mobile search…

(4) SMS 2.0 –> (can you believe this?) this will actually ‘upgrade’ (and hence replace) your Symbian Phone’s built in SMS app– show targetted and paid-for adverts with SMSes… by Affle (link: affle.co.uk)

(6) Tyroo www.tyroo.com –> Online media buying house for the mobile internet

(7) Nikhil Pahwa of ContentSutra (www.contentsutra.com ) was there to moderate the after-hours discussion…

(8) Raj Singh ActiveMedia http://www.activemediatech.com

(9) Avinash Agrawal from RouteGuru http://www.routeguru.com
— A interesting product routeguru has… and lots of interesting discussion happening about RouteGuru’s product on the mobile monday delhi (momodelhi) Mailing list on yahoogroups… and no, this list has no archives; subscribe to get the messages….

(10) Buzzcity was represented at Mobile Monday Delhi by Milind Naik Buzzcity’s Country Manager (India)… BuzzCity: www.buzzcity.com.sg

(11) Other faces I ran into at momodelhi-3 included Aditya Misra (TCS), Saurabh Jain (skjworld), Asmita Sinha (saita www.saitaconsulting.com), Rajesh Lalwani (www.blogworks.in), Saiphul (ESPN), Prashant Arya (agilent), Sunand (Aricent)… !

(no this is not a exhaustive list… mail me if you’d like to see this article edited… or mail me even otherwise if you have any comments/suggestions or requests for info my mail ID is: nsnsns(at)gmail(dot)com )

You can visit http://www.slideshare.net and search for ‘momo delhi may 26 2007’ and find online viewable and also downloadable PPT versions of several of the presentations made at Mobile Monday Delhi.

What you’d like the next momo delhi to be ?
Were you there ?
Do you have a opinion ?

Feel free to comment…