Mobile developers Mobile (and aspiring) mobile developers –  Join my friends at WIP (I’m an informal advisor) for the The Muther! of All Hackathons + DevCon on Friday, June 24 to Saturday, June 25, 2011 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. This is going to be one muther of a hackathon…

The Muther! of all Hackathons + DevCon is coming and YOU don’t want to miss it! This will be a real mashup where Hackathon meets DevCon in a fun, informative format!  The real world doesn’t focus on a single technology, phone or solution, so neither will the Muther!

Join hundreds of New developers, Experienced developers, Tool companies and Carriers, Investors and other mobile fanatics for a two day adventure of Master Classes, UnPanels, Coding, New APIs, Prizes, a BBQ and more. Innovation trumps sleep. Always.

For more information and to sign up: http://wipconnector.com/wipjam/entry/the_muther_of_all_hackathons

Qualcomm will be hosting the Uplinq™ 2011 wireless ecosystem conference on June 1-2, 2011 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, and Socialize Mobilize has 10 free tickets to give away! (more…)

There’s another great conference coming up for developers.  “Web Directions Unplugged” will take place in Seattle May 12 and 13, and it’s targeted at folks that are designing and developing apps and games using HTML5.  They’re offering a 30% Discount for the Socialize Mobilize community with the code “socialize,” making the show just $695. (more…)

Today is the last day for developers to submit their apps to the AppCircus Spotlight on HTML5, the world’s first HTML 5 mobile app competition, sponsored by Zeewe (a mobile app web store from Movile and the best source of mobile web apps I’ve seen to date).  I’m excited by this contest on several fronts…

As smartphones evolve to support more advanced web technologies, one of the greatest untapped opportunities for mobile developers is HTML 5, which allows developers to write an app once and have it run on multiple mobile devices across OSes.  (more…)

As I mentioned in my last post, my biggest complaint about the Motorola Atrix 4G was AT&T’s requirement of a $40/month tethering plan to use it with the Motorola Laptop Dock.  Fortunately, I’ve found an easy to circumvent… (more…)

Open Mobile Solutions (one of the companies I advise) is looking for mobile app developers and panelists for its Developer Pitch Sessions at CTIA in March.  The last Developer Pitch Sessions at CTIA was really good.  This year is sure to be even better.  The sessions are as follows: (more…)

If oyu’re looking for the 2012 Mobile World Congress Parties list, please click here!

UPDATED: Feb 10, 1:25 pm Pacific: Mobile World Congress is coming up in Barcelona, Spain February 14-18, 2011, and it’s time to start planning your networking calendar.  So many parties, so little time!  I’ll be updating the following list of networking events and parties as I hear about them in this post. Check out the “agenda” view on the SocializeMobilize “Events” calendar to add these events to your calendar.

If you have a party or event you’d like me to add to this list, please send me the details and RSVP requirements.

If you need strategy, business development or marketing support surrounding Mobile World Congress, please contact me.

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With mobile and web converging faster than ever, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between PCs, tablets and mobile phones.  As convergence progresses, mobile OEMs and Operators are looking for new forms of revenue and savvy mobile developers are having to re-evaluate there business models and decide if/when it is appropriate to pay for placement and/or share new forms of revenue (including advertising) with their partners. In this article, I provide a high-level history of business models in mobile apps, and explore if/when/how developers should charge for apps and share revenue with partners. (more…)

As I mentioned in my last post, the tablet market is heating up.  Motorola wants to talk about it at CES 2011!  Stay tuned…

I recently stumbled across a visual map of the web 2.0 landscape, created by John Battelle and team, called Points of Control.  (Note: If you’re interested in social media and you’re not familiar with John Battelle, check him out… He’s the Program Chair of the Web 2.0 Summit, and his nearly 40,000 followers on Twitter -including me- are a good indication that he regularly has interesting things to say.) (more…)