Here are the highlights from my Twitter stream last week. To see the full stream, please visit me on Twitter.

• Headed to #uplinq today. #in #
• Personalization and socialization (via social networks) of app recommendations is a big theme for the #qualcomm keynote at #uplinq # (more…)

Eric Chan over at MobileSlate is helping to organize what looks like a great talk about the future of the mobile digital home, sponsored by Huawei Technologies Company.  One of the speakers is a friend and former colleague, Harshul Sanghi from Motorola Ventures, who I think has great insights on the future of the connected home – in particular internet connected TV.  Check out the details and registration information below: (more…)

Socialize Mobilize has a handful of free tickets to give away to the upcoming 2010 UPLINQ Conference taking place in San Diego, CA, June 29-July 1, thanks to our good friends at Qualcomm and The Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP)! (more…)

If you’re a mobile apps developer, the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is looking for presenters for its AppCircus event in Barcelona.  I was asked to be a judge in the app contest.  Here are the details of the event directly from the organizers:

Present your app at the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference for FREE!

Mobile 2.0 Europe is proud to host the AppCircus – a unique global traveling showcase of innovative apps!

Participation is FREE and open to start ups and individual developers, so apply now to the AppCircus@Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona June 17th 2010 and walk the high-wire! (more…)

On Thursday, June 3, 2010, from 6:30-8:30pm, Blue Run Ventures (BRV), an early stage venture firm specializing in internet mobile, and software start-ups, is hosting a FREE developer event at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, a “community center for hackers and thinkers to meet, discuss, learn, create, build and play.”

At this event, Jay Jamison, former executive from Microsoft , will talk about how he used just 20% of his time and a small budget to launch SmackDaddy, on eof the top mobile sports apps in the iTunes App Store.  Jonathan Ebinger, Partner at BRV will also talk about the opportunties and pitfalls for start-ups and what it takes to get investment in the current environment.

If you’re a developer or member of a founding team that’s looking for good advice, this event should be a good one.  Sign up here.

I am thrilled to be one of the five judges of the 2010 MEX User Experience Awards, the winners of which will be announced at the MEX Conference in London on May 19th.  This is the third year of the MEX User Experience Awards which seeks to recognize companies with the best user-centered design in mobile.  42 companies, freelancers, and students entered the competition this year, and today, MEX announced the shortlist of nominees up for the following Awards: (more…)

Here are the highlights of my tweets at CTIA last week. To see all of my tweets, please visit me on Twitter. (more…)

It’s the first day of CTIA Wireless 2010, and things are already buzzing here in Las Vegas.  One of the more interesting announcements this morning comes from Openwave Systems Inc. and Nielsen Company, who announced a collaboration, which should benefit both mobile operators and their consumers.

They’re rolling out what they’re calling an “insight engine”, that combines Openwave Analytics, a solution that helps mobile operators monitor data network traffic and trends in user behavior to diagnose and address bandwidth constraints with Nielsen PRIZM, a user segmentation solution that creates a common language to segment various types of users and helps marketers address different segments of users based on demographics, behavior, and geography.  (more…)

Today, Open Mobile Solutions (OMS) announced which mobile apps will be demoed at the four Developer Pitch Sessions at CTIA Wireless next week.  The line-up of developers and mobile applications/ products looks great: (more…)

Okay, it’s not exactly a party, but if you’re a mobile developer, it’s close…Nokia is hosting their annual Nokia Developer Summit in – wait for it – San Francisco on June 9-10 at the Concourse Exhibition Center.  Amen, and thank you, Nokia, for answering my prayers and hosting something big for developers in the Bay Area.

It’s good to see the Finns reaching out to mobile developers outside of Europe.  This is going to be a good opportunity for US mobile developers to look under the hood at how to develop for new technologies like Maemo, QT and Web Runtime as well as existing technologies like Symbian.  It’ll also be a good way to learn about distributing apps on the Ovi store.

I wish the event were free, but it’s $450. The good news is that there’s an early bird registration discount of $150 off the regular price for developers that register here before March 31, 2010.