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…)

Here are are my Twitter highlights from last week. To see all of my tweets, please follow me on Twitter.

• Just wrapped up my business development project with Chomp and am looking for new consulting projects… #
• Looking forward to seeing what @facedotcom powered apps #developers made at @techcrunch Disrupt Hack Day: http://ht.ly/1P9GG #tcdisrupt #
• Zuckerberg talks privacy, no apology http://ht.ly/1PaDg. IMHO @Facebook PR hasn’t responded well 2 #quitfacebook @wsj @jason @leolaporte etc # (more…)

Following my earlier post announcing the nominees for the 2010 MEX User Experience Awards in London, the ballots have been tallied and the winners were recently announced.   As a judge in this year’s competition, I was particularly interested to hear see who won: (more…)

• Great speakers from #at amp;t & #verizon + @wipjam & #ar & #ux #mobile #developer sessions lined up for 2010 #uplinq http://ht.ly/1NOF8 #
• The @blackberry #developer conference call for papers closes on May 24th. If you're a #blackberry developer, submit here: http://ht.ly/1NORC #
• Surely the flushing toilet is a more important invention than the #iphone ! Not according to a survey of 4000 Brits!: http://ht.ly/1NPjK #
• RT @sfmobilejobs: Technology Evangelist, Android – Motorola – Sunnyvale, CA: http://bit.ly/cu5YIB #

• Event for mobile dev start-ups on 6/3 in Mtn View! @jay_jamison & @jebinger speaking at @hackerdojo. Sponsored by @bluerunventures… #
• I’m at Mobile Meets Entertainment today. Anyone else? #mme10 #
• @mobileslate I’m here too… heard you were speaking so figured today was a must attend event! in reply to mobileslate #
• At #mmesummit listening to panel on Mobile Advertising. Only two panelists? Where did the other 2 go? #
• @jay_jamison looking forward to hearing your story! in reply to jay_jamison #
• Come to Jolicloud’s #joliparty for #HTML5 #developers after @googleio Boot Camp in SF May 18. Register: http://bit.ly/ bqfTOQ #io2010 #
• RT @facedotcom: Cool! Face.com’s facial detection & recognition API being used to share pics of #celebrities on Twitter: CelebrityFindr-… #
• Another gorgeous day in Maui! #

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.

The following tweets are the highlights from last week. To see all of my tweets, please visit me on Twitter:

• Congratulations to my latest client, @facedotcom, who today launched a new FREE facial detection & recognition API for developers!… #
• Here’s more information on the launch of @facedotcom‘s free facial detection and recognition API: http://ht.ly/1Gs7l #in #
• Congrats to @Zawthet and the team at @4INFO: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/03/4info-adds-new-execs-to-fuel-100-growthquarter/ #
• If you’re in #portland Oregon on Thursday, get free tickets to INNOTECH from @harrisja & get the scoop on his #Mobile Lightning Talks… #
• RT @jjaisimha is moderating a great panel on Enterprise Mobile Apps and LBS at TiECon next week! Salesforce, Sybase, Qualcomm, Nearbynow… #
• @carlmartin Interesting. In Feb Jha told WSJ that if Moto could afford its own OS it would have one http://ht.ly/1GO3p in reply to carlmartin #
• Great news! @HP says they’ll focus on expanding @Palm‘s WebOS post acquisition: http://ht.ly/1GPLj # (more…)

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…)

Today, my newest client, Face.com launched an new, open and free API and developer community for facial recognition and detection.  This is exciting news for developers that want to incorporate facial detection and recognition capabilities into their applications.  If you’re a developer, you can get started with the API and get involved with the community here. (more…)

I was recently asked to participate in a video with others in mobile talking about what the future of LTE (Long Term Evolution / 4G) means for real people. Here it is!  The guys who produced the video are a great team called DHP Studios out of London. If you’re looking for a company to create videos for corporate events, etc. check them out. They’ve got great experience with special effects and production.