zensify is a company behind an iPhone app designed to help users manage their activities across multiple social networks through a single interface. In that sense, the application consists of 5 parts: Real time stream with updates from supported social networks. Trends – allows people to see what’s hot on the social web. Think of…
Mobile 2.0 Europe startup #6: Distimo provides developers with mobile analytics tools
From all the startups I’ve seen, Distimo is probably the one that will most likely succeed. They provide developers with free tools for analyzing their mobile applications’ performance across application stores. All major app stores are supported, allowing developers to see how their work performs across platforms and stores. You could think of it as…
Mobile 2.0 Europe startup #5: rmbrme presents its beamME iPhone app
Folks behind rmbrme rely on iPhone’s inability to support vCards. Hence they’ve made an iPhone app called beamME, allowing users to transfer (beam) their virtual business cards to other people. You can have multiple business cards and select which one you want to transfer at any point by SMS, email, Twitter, or now with the…
Mobile 2.0 Europe panel: Beyond free
The second panel is on. First we’ve heard Priya Prakash, who is Creative Director for Consumer Experience at Nokia. She had a great keynote talking about user experiences, and now she’s joined by the following people to discuss the “Beyond free” concept: Inma Martinez, Digital Media Strategist and Investment Advisor at Stradbroke (Moderator) Dr. Lai…
Mobile 2.0 Europe startup #4: Layar – Browse the world
Probably the single most interesting startup (as far as I’m concerned) from the first round is Layar. Under the tagline “Browse the world,” Layar is offering the augmented reality service to deliver great location-aware experience to the end user. We’ve seen a demo showcasing application running on the Android device enabling users to look at…
Mobile 2.0 Europe startup #3: Vulevu – Don’t search – Be found!
Vulevu is a mobile dating service. We’ve seen quite a few similar services, with some of them being quite large companies. Their difference (though there are some other services which provide the similar offering like Flirtomatic) is in allowing users to buy their way to the top of the list. Think of it as Google…
Mobile 2.0 Europe startup #2: pikkoo – YouTube of mobile personalization
pikkoo is a Finland-based company that provides a web-based service where users gather to create and share mobile content, such as screensavers and wallpapers. The portion of the website using which you can create mobile content looks pretty cool, and relies on advanced JavaScript to deliver an easy to use interface via drag and drop.…
Mobile 2.0 Europe startup #1: theChanner – TV on the move
theChanner is the Spain-based company that makes mobile application which brings streaming TV on a mobile phone, very similar to Spb Software’s Spb TV. You can discover/browse TV channels through an easy to use interface. Moreover, when you find an interesting or an awful channel, you are free to rate and/or leave a comment; or…
Mobile 2.0 Europe: Context panel
The Context panel is about to end. The key point here is location and how to better serve customer based on where they currently are. Some of the issues raised/discussed: What to do with all that data? Various location-based services are already live, but there is still so much data available about users’ behavior which…
I’m at the Mobile 2.0 Europe conference
Today is the second day of the Mobile 2.0 Europe conference. Yesterday was the developer’s day, which I missed to attend HiT Barcelona. Again, it’s a small conference, but there seems to be more enthusiasm in the air than at HiT event. The reason may be that it’s taking place in a smaller venue at…