Good times at Mobile 2.0 in Barcelona #m20eu

Just back from the Mobile 2.0 Conference in Barcelona - wow - what a great event!  It was brilliant to be able to hang out with other mobile people from around the world and listen to a load of great talks, presentations and panels.  The event was brilliantly organized and I think everyone got a load out of it. 

Highlights for me were:

• brilliant group of people there ranging from one or two man iphone development teams to CEOs of the biggest mobile startups to representatives from Vodafone and other bigger companies
• some great presentations from the likes of Skyhook Wireless, Future Platforms and Nokia 
• the smaller Developer Day which made a great complement to the main conference the day after
• pitches from some great new startups like Distimo, Pikkoo, Layar and Zensify 
• friendly and positive atmosphere - was great to forget the recession and doom and gloom for a while and be around people working in an industry with some sort of growth prospects
• the food and drink was great - breakfast pastries every morning and a wonderful lunch at the main conference
• venues were good - Barcelona Activa and ESADE were both brilliant spaces

Some of the key themes included:

• Mobile widgets / web apps have moved forward significantly but still suffer from fragmentation in terms of standards
• Location really starting to take-off with the data from the use of location services emerging as something really valuable when combined with demographic and other segmentation info
• Operators starting to open up with the launch of improved developer programs, APIs and their own app stores
• Business models not evolving as fast as the technological possibilities and consumer take-up...

I'll be blogging some of my notes from the conference here and you can find stuff with the m20eu tag on slideshare and twitter. 

Thanks to Rudy, Miker and the team for organizing - I really appreciated it. 

Comments

[Mike Rowehl]

Great to get to meet you, happy to hear that things are going well with mjelly!

[sykoz]

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[Wapple]

An interesting statistic about the number of touch optimised websites. It shows drive and incentive to provide a good browsing experience for mobile web users.

However, in the grand scheme of things, this is but a drop in the ocean of websites that aren't optimised for mobile.

We've recently published a paper on the state of the mobile web in 2009, check it out here: http://tr.im/uTCe

[unlock blackberry phones]

Good stuff