I just thought that I’d let you know about my forthcoming travel plans and speaking arrangements. Please contact me if you’d like to hook up – I love meeting MobHappy readers and will certainly try and make time in my diary for a coffee or something. Next week (7th/8th October) I’m in the wonderful city [...]
ME Awards
by Russell Buckley on 26. Sep, 2008 in Announcements
Last night saw 400 leading industry figures gather together in London for the prestigious ME Awards, organised by Mobile Entertainment magazine and it was great to catch up with so many old pals. AdMob picked up the Best Advertising and Marketing Company for the second year running, which was hugely flattering. But then it has [...]
Cool Job in New York
by Russell Buckley on 16. Sep, 2008 in Announcements
MobHappy pals and leading Spanish (and Mexican) mobile player, MobileDreams Factory is looking for a Biz Dev Director to kick-start their new US operation in New York. This is a very cool job as they’re really going places, having won loads of awards and are a real hotbed of creativity. Clients include as Coca-Cola, Diageo, [...]
Tomi Ahonen’s ‘Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media’
by Russell Buckley on 29. Aug, 2008 in Announcements
Our good friend Tomi Ahonen, blogger, speaker, consultant and highly prolific author has just announced his new book ‘Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media’, which you can order from Futuretext, Ajit Jaokar’s publishing vehicle. I haven’t read it yet (it’s still being printed) but if it’s up to the standards of his previous one, [...]
Mobile Media Investor Conference
by Russell Buckley on 29. Aug, 2008 in Announcements
The Strategy Institute has just released details of the Mobile Media Investor Conference, taking place on 9th and 10th December 2008 in San Francisco. It has a great line up of people from the media, marketing and venture worlds, including quite a few people I know, as it happens. Helen Keegan will also be pleased [...]
Announcing… Mobile Web Megatrends Conference
by Russell Buckley on 11. Aug, 2008 in Announcements
Our pal, Ajit Jaokar, is organising the first Mobile Web Megatrends conference in The Valley on September 8th 2008 at the Pacific Film Archive Theatre at the University of California Berkeley. Tickets cost a very reasonable $195, but if you’d like to get in free, the first to leave a comment below gets a ticket [...]
ILovetheMobileWeb Awards
by Russell Buckley on 30. Jul, 2008 in Announcements
One of the Autumn events that I’m speaking at and is shaping up to be very interesting is Informa’s Mobile Web Europe. Lots of great speakers and officially a hot topic these days – at long last. In fact, now that even mighty media organisations like the BBC (“Boom Times Ahead for the Mobile Web”) [...]
Alfie and Co. Keeping The Good Stuff Going At MoblogUK
by Carlo Longino on 29. Jul, 2008 in Announcements
You’ve probably seen us talk about Alfie Dennen and all the cool stuff he and his team have done at moblog:tech before, but he never fails to turn up with cool new things. His latest trick is a brand new platform that’s powering their moblog community. You can check it out in action at Leave [...]
Mobile Internet For Dummies Now Available
by Carlo Longino on 14. Jul, 2008 in Announcements
Russell mentioned the book Mobile Internet for Dummies back in May, noting that its release showed just how this mobile thing was taking off. One of the book’s authors, Dan Appelquist, notes that the book is now available. So, to echo Russell’s message from a few months ago, go buy a copy. You can also [...]
Men in Grey Suits or Blazers
by Russell Buckley on 03. Jul, 2008 in Announcements
The overwhelming impression that you get when attending any mobile event is that everyone there is a bloke wearing either a grey suit or a blazer/chinos combo. In fact, at a recent event, I had to smile as I overheard someone arranging to meet someone they didn’t know when they said “I’m wearing a blue [...]

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