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The Dev Program Bowling Smackdown held April 2 after the Jam Session was a perfect ending to a great day of Jam'n. Nine teams lead by Developer program representatives battled it out on the bowling lanes for the right to claim the title of "Best Bowlers". The title goes to The Blackberry Bruisers! Congratulations!

Here are the Smackdown results:

• 1^st - The Blackberry Bruisers with an average score of 118 points
• 2^nd – The AT&T ATTackers – 115 points
• 3^rd - The Microsoft Incredibowls – 104 points
• The ACCESS King Pins – 103 points
• The OMTP Surfers – 102 points
• The Symbian Sizzlers – 100 points
• The Sun Hyper Strikers – 98 points
• The Sony Ericsson High Rollers – 97 points
• The Oracle Gutter Brawlers – 86 points

It was an evening of bowling, networking, laughing and singing. Yes, by popular demand, Jameoke was back, lead by Stephen from Mob4Hire! "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was a crowd favourite once again.

Thank you to our sponsors. Without...

Thank you to all attendees, speakers, discussion leaders and sponsors for helping to make our 8^th Jam Session, held April 2^nd, 2009 at CTIA in Vegas, a huge success. By the numbers, there were:

• 189 attendees from 12 countries and 5 continents representing
  130 companies
• 14 speakers
• 21 discussion leaders
• 8 discussion topics
• 7 sponsors

Stay tuned for announcements of future WIP Jam Sessions coming soon! Jam on!

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We just published the WIP monthly newsletter over the weekend, and I started off with a Rant on Event Registration – has it become meaningless? Well – I never expected the avalanche of responses – in fact the best response I've ever gotten to one of my newsletters.

Here's what I said:

I've got a short rant if you'll indulge me. What's with event registration and attendance? There seems to be no correlation between who registers and who shows up. From what I understand from other event hosts, it also doesn't correlate whether the event is free nor has a charge. Is it a function of too many events and activities that you try and cover your bases? Or is an event registration not really a commitment to attend? How many reminders are needed?

Here are some of the responses:

• I honestly believe that the problem lies with conflicting events and unexpected business opportunities. … Several times I found myself wishing that there were fewer items to attend and that they would have had two...

We're really excited at this week's Carnival of the Mobilists. Not only does it include the CTIA Las Vegas wrap up, it comes from one of the leading experts in mobile advertising - Chetan Sharma! He runs through CTIA and throws down a number of RSS worthy blogs so be sure to check it out!

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