When I’m not in client meetings or on the road, I am usually working from my home office.  Friends and colleagues regularly ask whether I get lonely or distracted working from home, and my answer is always  “no.”   They often say things like, “I don’t think I could work from home…” “I’d get lonely…” “There are too many distractions at home…” etc.  Feeling lonely is a rarity since I’m in meetings and/or phone calls every day.  As for distractions go, in my experience there are way more distractions in an traditional workplace environment then a home office… Read More…

Today the World Economic Forum announced its 2010 list of the top 200-300 Young Global Leaders (YGL) Honourees.  You can download the full list here.  Among those on the list that mobile and web enthusiasts might know are:

• Ev Williams, Co-founder and CEO of Twitter
• Marissa Mayer, Vice-President, Search Product and User Experience at Google
• Anand Chandrasekaran, Director, Products at Openwave Systems Inc.
• George Hu, Executive Vice-President, Marketing and Alliances, Salesforce.com Read More…

Here are my Twitter highlights over the last week. To see all of my tweets, please visit me on Twitter.

• Heading back to SF from London on Tuesday afternoon. It’s been a great trip! #
• @tomiahonen That’s interesting… Especially since they created MOTOMAGIX (sp?) & it didn’t last. Differentiating is tough on both HW & SW. in reply to tomiahonen #
• Check out these 3 great panels at #CTIA for #mobile #developers: 1) VC funding 2) Gaining Distribution 3) Monetizing http://ow.ly/1aOYF #
• Want a free pass to #CTIA Use the code “OMS4CTIA” & sign up for the Developer Pitch Sessions by Open Mobile Solutions: http://ow.ly/1aPEP #
• Daily traffic on SocializeMobilize.com nearly 1/2ed after #MWC10 My MWC party list was a hit! Trying to come up w/ a good replacement post. #
• Any developers out there looking for speaking opps at #CTIA If so, ping me. I’m looking developers with stories of mobile monetization. # Read More…

Open Mobile Solutions is offering a free Platinum Pass to CTIA at Las Vegas in March.  They’re also organizing several Developer Pitch Sesions including:

• Raising Money – a panel featuring Venture Capitalists specializing in mobile.
• Gaining Distribution – a  panel featuring various mobile distribution channels.
• Monetization – a panel of key decision makers in the mobile advertising space – agencies, brands and networks

The Open Mobile Solutions Marketplace is currently in stealth mode, but you can learn more here.  In the meantime, why not take advantage of the great panel sessions they’re organizing at CTIA and the opportunity for a free pass?

Here are the highlights from my Twitter stream last week:

• http://shozu.com/t/chi – I thought Barcelona was supposed to be warmer than SF…#mwc10 #
• http://shozu.com/t/chp – Microsoft is talking about Windows Phone 7 Series at #mwc10 I’m cautiously optimistic. # Read More…

Just in time for the start of Mobile World Congress, my domain provider imposed an arbitrary cap on my email limit, despite advertising ‘unlimited’ storage. Sigh.  The problem is now corrected, but if you sent me an email over the last 2 days, please re-send it.  Tech support tells me that emails that bounced are not recoverable. Apologies for any inconvenience.

As day 2 of Mobile World Congress rounds to a close, and day 3 begins (ahem – it’s nearly 3am), I thought I’d point out a few highlights from Mobile World Congress so far:

Pre-MWC: I started the pre-MWC whirlwind with The NAVTEQ awards party, in which the EMEA winners of the Global LBS Challenge were announced.  It was a good event.  A handful of promising companies showcased their LBS-enhanced mobile products.  From there, I went to MobileSunday, which was, as usual packed with a great crowd of mobile enthusiasts bracing for the week ahead.  After that, I hit the town with the team from Skyhook Wireless (whose wi-fi location-based technology is embedded in the iPhone and millions of others worldwide) and a few of their 3rd party developer partners – all of whom are working on things that would set any mobile enthusiast’s heart racing… I’d tell you more, but that’d be like ruining a good surprise, and that’s no fun.

Day 1: I kicked off Monday by moderating a couple of panels in the “Mobile Applications – Innovation Vs Fragmentation” stream.  The first was “Attracting investment to the apps market – Identifying the key success factors,” and the panelists were fantastic: Read More…

Here are the business-related highlights of my Twitter feed over the last week.  To see all of the tweets, visit me on Twitter.

• Last call: Send me questions for #MWC10 panels I’m moderating 1st panel= VC investment in apps, 2nd= billing & payments http://ow.ly/15uPO #
• I like Lufthansa’s mobile boarding pass capability… Easy to use and saves paper. #
• @ronanhigg Good question/point. I wonder if VCs value native apps that don’t access device APIs > than browser-based apps… in reply to ronanhigg # Read More…

Here are my tweet highlights from last week. For all my tweets, visit me on Twitter.

• I updated the networking party list for #MWC10 here: http://ow.ly/12SYy and in SocializeMobilize’s Google calendar: http://ow.ly/12T0y # Read More…

Today, I read a fascinating report today from Mobile search engine, Taptu, which outlines trends in the “Mobile Touch Web” (i.e. content that can be run on “any touch screen device equipped with a Webkit- based mobile browser.”)  Taptu “analyzed, categorized and measured more than 100 million sites on the mobile touch Web and classified them by 20 categories and 200 sub-categories”, and this report provides insight into the areas of emerging importance in this space.  Read More…