It’s (a sellout) iPhone Dev Camp Amsterdam tomorrow at Mediamatic’s new space on the Vijzelstraat and we can’t wait!
I think we first discussed how ‘an iPhone Dev Camp would be a very nice idea’ with Peter Robinnet at the Techcrunch Europe meetup at eBuddy not so long ago. Since then Peter’s been really busy organising it, as interest grew a new venue was needed and Mediamatic came to the rescue. Peter’s coworking space is great but not big enough for 120+ budding iPhone developers! I’m really looking forward to the event; personally I hope to:
- Meet new people incuding Cocoa and iPhone Developers - for some of our upcoming new projects
- Chat with hopeful ‘iPhone entrepreneurs’
- Learn some new iPhone tips and tricks
- See old friends again
- Congratulate Marco on a great app!
- Oh, and launch Treasuremytext for iPhone 2.0
After a rather busy few weeks of meetings (some big announcements coming soon) and meetups (Techcrunch Amsterdam was great and we made loads of new buddies), we’re looking forward to a busy summer with yet more meetups and barcamps. Next up is BarCamp Leeds.
Organised by Imran Ali, and to be attended by a great line up of UK startups, BarCamp Leeds is gonna be great! From the attendee list so far it looks like a good contender to rival BarCamp Manchester! A bit of friendly rivalry’s a good thing!
We will of course be there to show new features in Treasuremytext and Treasuremytext for iPhone, and perhaps Paul will do a WebObjects related session??
We’re at WWDC (Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference) and this morning was the Keynote. Apple fans will have already heard the news of the forthcoming iPhone 3G (launching, and in many more countries) July 11th. There’s so much news it’s hard to know where to start and the atmosphere is really amazing; everyone’s very excited about the new 3G iPhone, iPhone 2.0 software, the forthcoming launch of the iPhone App store, and the new .mac: “mobileme“. - Oh and yeah, there’s no SMS synch in mobile me 
!
We’re loving what is about to happen with the iPhone and really looking forward to developing apps for iPhone and to the launch of the App store. Right now, we’re sat in the Mac OS X State of the Union session.
We’re learning a lot, getting loads of inspiration for how to enhance Treasuremytext and interoperability with iPhone, and we promise to deliver more updates here as the week unfolds.
Treasuremytext attended the E-Services forum in Liverpool today and was commended for our presentation about the service. It was a great event and I met some great people. It was really cool to hear from edocr, Wadja, Momote, Screen Reach, Phonefromhere, Liverpool Ventures, Merseyside ICT and more!
The forum, part of i-techpartner was organised by Marie at AIMES and as usual it was an excellent event.
“The eServices Forum offers a unique setting with pan-European networking for top entrepreneurs, R&D leaders, investors and experts from the eServices sector. This is a unique opportunity to connect with the whole value chain of technology innovation, from R&D leaders via entrepreneurs and investors to international corporations with global market access.”
We’ve been busy at the Communication & Mobile Applications Forum in Stockholm meeting mobile industry people, developers and VCs.
The Forum, organised by Europe Unlimited has been a great networking event for us and of course its nice to visit Sweden for the first time. Highlights include hearing from:
Aqua Mobile “print to web technologies”
Trippo “Translation on the move”
Rebtel “Low cost international mobile calls”
Squace “Accessing your stuff via your phone, easily”
What a Map “Mobilize your maps!”
GEM “Outdoor Interactive Multimedia System” (Way Cool, we like them a lot!)
Small Planet “Mobile Marketplace Management”
http://www.e-unlimited.com/events/p200243/overview.asp
The format of the event was conference / discussion sessions plus presentations and after a little coaching we presented Treasuremytext and won the award for the best presentation in our group. Cool huh!
Treasuremytext will be at Telco 2.0 this Thursday (17th April). Telco 2.0 is running an executive brainstorm for Telco types! And Treasuremytext will be at the demo event at the conference.
The demo element is organised by the nice people at mashup* event. Telco 2.0 runs a great blog all about the Telecoms world here at: www.telco2.net/blog where you can read abut us and the other mobile 2.0 services who are also demoing at the event.
We’ll be looking forward to hooking up with the people from Phonefromhere who we know from several North West startup 2.0 related events and the other demoers. As well as meeting other demoers:
www.palringo.com
www.zyb.com
www.clickpass.com
www.vringo.com
www.voicesage.com
More info here.
Treasuremytext 2.0 is now officially open for business. We’re open, and the ‘invite only’ signs have been taken down. No longer in private beta means we’ve got real life people treasuring their texts and playing with the new features. Yay!
We’re still being relatively quiet about telling the masses just yet, but we’re really happy that anyone who wants a free unlimited treasuremytext account can now have one. If you haven’t got one yet, get one here.
We’re planning to attend Over the Air, (48 hours of mobile development), London, April 4th. The event “brings together developers, designers, hackers and entrepreneurs to explorer the potential exciting future of wireless and mobile devices/applications“. Neat!
We’re hoping to learn stuff, to share our knowledge of working ‘near’ mobile, and to meet some mobile developers, specifically with iPhone or S60 skills.
Looks set to be a great event, and… it’s free.
http://overtheair.org/
I’m at Barcamp Manchester (UK) today. It seems like a great event for meeting old friends, new 2.0 people in the north west and other new acquaintances. (By the way Mary and Adam - you’re late!) I’m also hoping to meet up with Imran Ali from Mobile Messaging 2.0 for a chat.
I’m writing this from a session on microformats - so far, all very cool. I may do a session later on about our experiences of bootstrapping Treasuremytext - 10 15 mistakes and things to learn for wanna be web entrepreneurs?
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