WidSets in the Mobile Internet World Conference in Boston

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We are going to be in Boston during November 13-15 in the Mobile Internet World 2007 Conference. In case you would be there, come and see us on Booth 310. You'd get also a chance to visit our collegues from Nokia S60 team in the next Booth 308.  I'll be one of the panelist in the "Building Business Models for the Mobile Internet" taking place Wednesday 2:30pm onwards. We'll also have a 20 minute session in the Mobile Internet Solution Theater Thursday 1:45pm onwards. Before our session there is session about Nokia's S60 by Ganesh Sivaraman starting at 1:15pm.

Come to see and talk with us !

Cheers,

Tuomo 

WidSets at MAPOS USA in SanFran on June 27th

I will be giving a presentation at the Mapos USA conference in San Francisco on June 27th, 2007. There is a panel at the end of Day Two called "Widgets: Mobile's Door to a PC-Like Experience and Development Ecosystem… or simply Marketing Spin?" (these names are incredible :-) that I will be part of. There are gentlemen from Myspace and Plusmo in the panel, so I'm looking forward to very interesting discussions.

PS. The link (URL) from this article to the Mapos web site is one of the longest URL's I have used for ages.

WidSets at Nokia Connection in Singapore

An event called the Nokia Connection will be held in Singapore on June 18th, 2007. It's supposed to be a pretty cool conference, something similar to Nokia World over in Europe, but bigger. It's my first time at Nokia Connection, so I wouldn't know.

New cool phones will be introduced (I'd expect), and of course exciting and innovative mobile software will be demoed there, too. And one of those will (naturally) be WidSets, presented by "yours truly", at one of the stands.

I've been in Singapore just once, had a quick stopover there before continuing to Down Under, so it will be great to see what the city looks like, too.

WidSets at TheNextWeb 2007

The Next Web conference will be held in Amsterdam on June 1st, 2007. We will be demoing WidSets there at our own WidSets stand (internal joke), which should be easy to find. With a little luck I might have something to say to the audience, too.

We presented WidSets there a year ago, and it was the first conference ever for WidSets, so this is a little special. We had a great time, and I'm really looking forward to enjoy Amsterdam and The Next Web this year, too! And looking at the speaker list, this will be really great!

Please drop by and say hello!

WidSets at MoMo London on May 14th

Mobile Monday London arranges an event called Mobile Widgets on May 14th, 2007. I had originally thought I'd miss the event due to my flight schedule, but now it looks like I'll be able to go to the Hospital (24 Endell Street, WC2H 9HQ) and enjoy the evening with MoMo.

Fortunately I have lived in a city where they had bars called (translated from Finnish) The Bank, The RestRoom, The School, and The Pharmacy, so I am not be suprised by any names, any longer.

Anyway, the event starts at 5pm - sorry, 6pm, and if I can make it, I'll give a short presentation about WidSets there.

Updated: A really great evening and programme, as you can see from here. Thanks Alex and Dan!

WidSets at Chinwag Live: Media Widgetised

I will be in the panel at the Chinwag Live: Media Widgetised event, which will be discussing the theme "How will the growth of widgets, aggregators and web-feeds effect the online media landscape?".

Chinwag Live is part of the Widget Week in London. This event also takes place on May 16th, but in the evening (6pm). If you're in London that week, this definitely looks like an event worth checking out! It looks like it is going to be a busy, but very interesting week!   

WidSets at the FT Mobile Media Conference

New week, new conference :-) This time I'm heading to London, to the Financial Times Mobile Media Conference, held at The Dorchester on 15 & 16 May, 2007. I will be speaking in a panel called "Beyond Ringtones" (I guess you could say that WidSets is something like that :-) which starts at 11:30am on May 16th.

I'll have to replace my developer cap (?) to a business hat (?) over the weekend. That will be interesting. Anyway, taking a look at the speakers (excluding me, of course :-), it looks like there's going to be some interesting discussions - and some people I definitely want to meet!

WidSets at JavaOne

I will be presenting WidSets at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on May 8-10, 2007. I'll be covering the latest news about WidSets, and hopefully also something about what's coming up in the near future.

I met lots of WidSets users and people from interesting companies at the Web 2.0 Expo a couple of weeks ago, and I'm really looking forward to meeting the developer crowd at JavaOne! Or whoever shows up at the booth :-)

WidSets will be part of the Nokia booth #1018, in the exhibition, North Hall, Moscone Convention Center.

C U there!

Update: Here's a press release from Nokia about the presence at JavaOne.

Going to Web 2.0 Expo

The Web 2.0 Expo will be in San Francisco on April 15th - April 18th i.e., next week. We will be demoing WidSets there, as part of the Nokia stand (#402), which should be easy to find. Please drop by and say hello!

We also created a widget for the event, since the Nseries guys have put up a blog about San Francisco, helping people to find places to eat, and other useful information. Get the widget here.

Oh, and if you haven't taken a look at the Press & Buzz area for a while, there are lots of updates from the blogosphere, maybe something that you have written, too!

3GSM coming

I'll be at 3GSM in Barcelona the whole next week. It's my first time at 3GSM, so I'm still trying to find out where all the events are situated, which sessions to attend, and who to meet. If you're attending the Nokia Press Party on Monday night, come and check my WidSets demo. I'll be showing it on a device you most probably haven't seen yet. See you there!

Le Web 3 Conference

I will be at the Le Web 3 Conference in Paris next week (December 11-12, Monday-Tuesday). It's the third "Les Blogs" Conference, and the program looks really interesting, so I'm glad that I will have time to enjoy it this time. Still, I'm really looking forward to meeting lots of you great bloggers - and other interesting people - out there!

And one more thing: there's of course a widget for the conference, so go pick it up!

Nokia World coverage

The guys, well - Antti (thx, once again) - has created a couple of widsets for anybody who wants to check what goes on at Nokia World this week.

First there's the FromTheFloor widset, so that you can follow what is being blogged at the conference. There will be quite a few bloggers available, publishing to this blog. Remember to check the pull-down menu for alternatives, i.e. if you want the main entries, or the comments.

And then there's a Photo widset, so that you can check what "official" pictures has been posted to Flickr. Let's see what kind of embarrassing pictures are posted this year :-)

Nokia World

There will be a WidSets stand at Nokia World, so if you're attending that event on November 29-30 in Amsterdam (RAI Congress Centre), drop by and say hello! With a bit of luck there will be some great new stuff that I can demo for you.

WidgetsLive

Not only am I presenting at the Mobile 2.0 conference tomorrow (see earlier posting), but also at the WidgetsLive conference, where I'll be in the mobile widgets panel. The opportunity of presenting there, the fact that the airline lost my luggage (but had it sent to me 24 hours later), etc has made the start here in SFO quite hectic. I do look forward to presenting at interesting conferences, hopefully wearing clean - although slightly wrinkled - clothes. 

Mobile Monday Boston

My colleague Sanji (no, it's not him in the picture) presented WidSets at the Mobile Monday in Boston on October 16th, quite a while ago. The introduction on the MoMo pages was: "Widsets is being called the best example of Web 2.0 on the phone". There's also complete video and audio coverage of the presentation - check it out!. And Marksguide has some brief coverage of the event.

Mobile 2.0 conference

Mobile Monday (London and Silicon Valley) together with the Open Group are arranging the Mobile 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on November 6, 2006. And yes, it's a Monday :-) We have presented WidSets in Mobile Monday meetings before, but this is a much bigger event, and these guys are really doing a great job at staying on the edge of things. I think they have a great line-up of speakers, too, and now I'm not talking about myself :-) If you've wondered how mobile fits into the Web 2.0 world, we'll that's the theme of the conference, so check their web pages out for more information.

As you might know, the Web 2.0 conference is that same week, and I'll attend that, too. This means that I will be in San Francisco all week, catching up with people I know, and some I haven't met before. Maybe we'll meet during the conferences, over a beer, or whatever!

At the Picnic'06 conference

I attended the the Picnic'06 Cross Media Week Conference in Amsterdam. They had manged to get a really great line-up of presenters and create a great programme. Maybe the only problem was that there was so much going on at the same time, that it was really heard to know what was going on and where. But I'm sure they'll fix that for next year, when I guess there will be another conference (this was the first one).

The venue was held at an old gas factory, with lots of old and charming buildings, right at a channel (there's quite a few of the in Amsterdam, if you haven't noticed). A perfect place to arrange a conference, I would say. And the weather was great, too. Unfortunately I could attend only on September 28th, when I gave a presentation about WidSets in the Future of Mobile Media Workshop. Henk stood for the arrangements in this workshop and Jens held it together during the day. Busy guys, as you can see :-)

No, seriously, thanks for taking very good care of us presenters - and once again thanks for that great birthday surprise you arranged for me!

Mobile Monday Helsinki

Marko and me presented WidSets at the Mobile Monday meeting in Helsinki, on September 4th, 2006. The place was Stockholm Diskotek, a very nice surrounding, I must say. Ismo Rantala, Jari Tammisto, and Timo Poropudas had made a great job organizing the event, as well as inviting fantastic :-) presenters. Seriously, this is a great event to hear about things in the mobile space, as well as to meet people involved in mobile. I didn't take any pictures, neither di Marko, so if someone did, tell us where they are, and we'll link them here. Thx!

TheNextWeb conference aftermath

Me and Marko had a great time at The Next Web Conference, not only presenting WidSets, but also chatting and meeting with so many great people involved in Web 2.0 (which you should mention only once...). And enjoying the programme, of course. For some links to coverage of the conference, see their blog. I'll also try to gathered some pictures here. Thanx the Jake Oscar Diele, Martin Jansen, Jake Blok, and Mathijs Muller and his Eyefi guys for arranging the PreParty! Many thanks also to Kat Ortland who covered the conference and took great pics, such as the attached photo.

WidSets at TheNextWeb conference

Marko and me will be presenting WidSets at the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam on Friday, July 7th. Hopefully you'll be around, because there's a good chance to see what we're doing and to have a chat with us. Taking a look at the Agenda and list of Attendees, there seems to be a great bunch of people and interesting companies at the conference, so it's definitely going to be interesting! And of course we created a widset for the conference, so that you (and me) can see what they are writing about in their blog. Well, they could've done it themselves, easily, using the Templates in our Studio, but we thought we would be nice this time :-)

I used the "Promote" button in the widset (which can be found in every widset), which go me, copy/pasted the HTML from that page into this posting, and the results of that you can see here along these lines. I've seen more and more of these "Add to my WidSets" being glued to blogs out there, great, thx!