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Welcome to Cape Town for our first African WIPJam!

If you think there is a slight sense of deja-vu, well, I cannot blame you, Cape Town (in winter) has got a strong resemblance to San Francisco (all year long :D), hilly streets, misty, a bit chilly and a hungry enterpreneurial population!

This WIPJam, sponsored by Nokia, was part of Apps World Africa which was hugely successful with a great crowd and a great mix of people (thanks to an awesome networking party). The whole program of the event can be found here, but here are a few of my selected highlights.

Lesson from Windows on Nokia 2 years too early

This is a bit of nostalgia I will admit, but having Dusan from Device Magic walk us through his lessons learnt from his previous experience running .NET on Symbian was great. Dusan explored the options for enterprises when it comes to mobile software and why it makes sense to go native (because employees are consumers too, and cannot live with a sub-standard experience...

Thibaut and I were in Berlin a few weeks back for a Jam Session at the Messe there, running alongside IT-Profits and LinuxTag. Despite the sweltering heat and a greenhouse of a building, it was a day full of great discussions. We had a smaller crowd than at many of our events at major mobile-industry events, but the quality of discussion enabled by its intimate size made up for it! Big thanks to our sponsors, Intel and GetJar, and to our friends at IT-Profits for helping with logistics.

We kicked the day off with a brief recap of some of the latest news from Apple's WWDC and Google I/O. The crowd seemed less interested in the previous day's announcement of the iPhone 4, and more interested in the news from Google -- perhaps explained by the strong open-source influence of LinuxTag and the enthusiasm for open source in Germany overall. One major point that generated some discussion was the expansion of the Android platform into the Google TV set-top box, and the resultant ability...

Join us in Singapore!

WIPJam@ CommunicAsia
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Hall 3 Conference Rooms G&H
Singapore Expo
10:30 – 5:00 pm

Sponsored by MoSync

Please Register

WIPJam After Party
Wednesday, June 16^th
6:30 – 10:00 pm

Brewerkz Riverside Point
30 Merchant Road #01-05/06 Riverside Point
Singapore

Sponsored by NAVTEQ.

Please Register:   

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List of  activities/receptions/events/parties at CommunicAsia 2010

(Let us know about others so they can be added to the list)

Monday, June 14th

Canada ICT Partnering Forum and Marketplace 2010
Marriott Singapore, Ballroom, Level 3
3:00 pm – 7:30 pm
RSVP

NAVTEQ LBS Challenge Awards Ceremony
Shangri La Hotel, Azalea Room, 22 Orange Grove Road
3:30 pm Cocktail Reception/Contestant Showcase
4:30 Awards Ceremony

RSVP with name, company & # of Attendees

MobileMonday Singapore Party
Harry's @ Esplanade
8 Raffles Avenue, #01-05/07 Esplanade Mall
6:00 PM –...

Berlin is the mobile place to be for WIP in June:

• Droidcon last week (technically we were still in May)
• MLOVE ConFestival on the 23-25 of June
• And of course next week WIP's headquarters move to Berlin for a week, as Carlo comes over from the US to join me for Mobile Monday Berlin and our WIPJam at IT Profits/LinuxTag on the 9th! (There's still plenty of time to register and get your free tickets, so come join us!)

In addition to the Android App Store competition, Droidcon was also full of cool presentations (all available here) and I was able to interview Kerstin Monzel and Jonas Kollberg from Intel, who presented at the event and will be at the WIPJam next week, too.

While California was abuzz with the Google TV announcement, and Intel powered set top boxes, we chatted more about the mobile device side of things.

WIP:  Judging by the warm tweets welcoming Quake running at 120fps on Moorestown... Your presentation at Droidcon was quite popular!  What was it...