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For this week's momo Global Summit (follow it on #mmsummit) we organized our WIPjam on a boat...

Very simple theme : Pirates of the Baltics for a costumed Jam!

Jack Sparrow :  Wild thinking & profit making!

Linda Kamau Ushahidi @lkamau
Andrea Surya Cisco / Momo Djakarta @asnugraha
Kesava Redy Momo Bangalore ( the sick pirate

Mobile growth and innovative mobile usage are now more associated with South East Asia and Africa rather than Europe. Wanna join the revolution?

Will Turner : Young Guns 

Vesku Paananen Microsoft @kitevesku

New developers products hit the market every day, get the latest and greatest from the industry, in elevator pitch format!

Elizabeth Swann : Changing the way the industry works 

Scott...

On the way back from Berlin's Mlove and  a very heated discussions with @SoulBizNus Rocky and Balls and others on the impact of mobile on the future of music.  I was approached in June  recently approached by Midem to collaborate around their upcoming event I though . In case you didn't know about midem it is probably the largest music industry event. 

The rare occurence was an obvious sign telling me I had to blog about music and technology and capture some of the points discussed in both occasions.

It's true the music industry is often seen by the software world as slow and resistant to change ... Especially when it comes to DRM.

But frankly the tech industry too has its DRMs ... API rather than data access (Programmable web vs  RDF website), license servers, government regulations on net neutrality / Intellectual property / citizen protection, anti-virus software, government incentives to semicos / creative industries /research, Flash vs html5, iOS vs Flash, OS X vs OS Y...

Recently I went to a Constant Contact seminar in New Westminster, it seems to me that it is very easy to fall into a boring formula of sending the same newsletter each week. On another note, Constant Contact still has not figured out a way to embrace mobile with each email that is opened is not registered in their database, and most of their templates are not mobile friendly either.

I feel with social media marketing rapidly expanding to companies around the world, email marketing is not to be forgotten. There is incredible value in having a newsletter, promo, poll etc sent directly to somebody who is interested in your content.

Here are my top 3 ways to make sure that there is continued success with more subscribers and higher click-through rates.

1) Take advantage of those Raving Fanatics, the ones who open your email ever single time and go through your content. They are the ones who talk about you, that recommend you and there is a good chance they will offer you some...

In the 4th installment of  our mobileapp2.0 saga, we have invited John Cooper from Viafo to talk to us about their applications developed for WInMo, Bada and soon Nokia WRT. Without spoiling the interview I can say  that it focuses on one of the key aspects of mobileapps2.0, the increasing reliance on standard back-end web technology to offer rich, ever changing, flexible services & content with little changes to the client side code. Enough of me, here he goes

TR : What is your latest app you wanted to talk to us about?

JC: We actually have 3 – two designed to showcase the power of our solution, and one showing off a client solution…

• ViaNewz – is an RSS reader showing full integration with Twitter, Bookmarking and other services.
• ViaSearchz – is a local search app with personalization and location based social networking.
• ViaTripz uses the TripIt API to provide a travel service with integrated Twitter and other social networking.

Simon Lucas from Enough Software won a ticket for Nokia's annual developer conference Nokia Developer Summit (Thanks to Nokia!).

As a Thank you note he proposed to share his thoughts about the summit!, and especially on the stream he attended dedicated to Qt development and development in Qt :D 

Seat down and go through the content of the 2 days of conference seating comfortably in front  of your computer!

Nokia Developer Summit 2010 – Technical Stream 1: Qt SDK

“Nokia is back” was the message Nokia spread at the opening key notes of the Nokia World and Nokia Developer Summit (NDS) 2010 in London. But this statement not only referred to the new devices Nokia introduced to the public in the last couple of months and of course the brand new ones they presented here at the Nokia World. A big deal of this statement also referred to Nokia's new Qt SDK which Nokia branded under a well known credo only put in different words: “Code less, create more, deploy anywhere”.

In...

And now for the 3rd installment in the mobileapps 2.0 saga our exploration of the gradual opening of the mobile development space....

Subject which is rather typical this week as Verizon's announcement of their Android appstore is bringing much comments on the goodness of openness in mobile see Openworld's "Android is OPEN but  open means different things" or their "Myth of Android openness"  on a backdrop of stories about Apple relaxing the appstore rules. 

Which is why we asked Chetan Damani at Acrossair to tell us more about his experience on iPad wit this app:

TR : What is your latest app you wanted to talk to us about?

In the lead-up to Verizon’s Developer Conference 2010, WIP sat down for a frank Q&A with Terry Hughes and Tom Mullen from Widality, to discuss a few highlights from their latest app developer white paper: Squaring up to the app challenge. Meet Terry at the Verizon Developer Conference where he is leading a WIPJam panel on how to stop sucking wind as an app developer!

Some quick background: Widality is the developer of one of the popular BlackBerry business app momentem. The company was recently acquired by Wmode, a leading managed-services provider of mobile Internet services to operators. Now, as a new business unit in Wmode, the team is “expanding the widality of apps”, helping app providers to get above the noise and monetize, by delivering scalable quality services.

Terry is the Head of Market Development for Widality. Tom is the CTO of Wmode.

WIP: Congrats on the merger. Why Wmode?

Terry: Since the launch of our momentem app + service on BlackBerry App World over a year...

Welcome to the 238th installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists. It's a pleasure to welcome the Carnival back to the WIP blog, and to share some of the best in mobile blogging from the past couple of weeks with you. It's hard to believe that it's been nearly five years since Russell and I launched the CotM over at MobHappy. But that fifth anniversary is coming up in about a month, and the current keeper of the tents, Peggy Anne Salz, is looking for input on how to celebrate that milestone, so be sure to send her your thoughts.

Peggy also gets a big thanks for emailing me to remind me about hosting this week I am at the AppNation event in San Francisco, and my duties had slipped my mind since we've had our hands so full at WIP lately. There are tons of events going on in the mobile space in the next few weeks, including our WIPJam at the Verizon Developer Conference next week. The VDC is shaping up to be a great event, and it's free to attend, so we hope to see you there!

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