Podcast Schedule and SXSW


Just a quick post to give you advance warning of our upcoming Podcasts. These are recorded live by Debi, so please listen in live and ask questions, or feel free to listen at your leisure to the recorded shows, here.

17th March:  fonYou – winner of Mobile Premier Awards Audience Award and Innovate!100 Madrid, co-founder & CFO Clemens Rossberg who was the presenter at Innovate!

24th March: From CTIA – All About Analytics – Bango, Admob, Percent Mobile, Motally and Flurry  (not all confirmed yet, but they will be)

31st March:  Handset Manufacturer Developer Communities – Participants TBC

Finally a heads up that our Event Feed has now switched to coverage of SXSW, so look no further for complete social media coverage of the event.

Till next time…

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Inaugural Podcast in the Can


Having Debi on board is really starting to bear fruit.
Hot on the heels of our great coverage of Mobile World Congress, we now have out our very first Podcast. Chris Shipley co-founder of Guidewire, joins Debi to discuss Innovate!100, how to participate, and Chris takes your questions.
You can listen here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/telefonicadev
With the transcript available here.
The plan is for this to [...]

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Mobile Premier Awards 2010


Apologies in advance that my wrap up of the event is not complete. A scheduling conflict unfortunately meant that I had to leave before the end of the formal agenda.
I’m sure that the official round up of the event and publication of all the winners will be live on the MPA website soon, plus you [...]

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Wholesale Applications Community


One of our key insights from the Developer community is the high level of frustration at the fragmentation seen across the mobile ecosystem.
Breaking news this morning from Mobile World Congress, sees the announcement of the Wholesale Applications Community to tackle this exact issue on behalf of Developers.
You can read more here: http://www.wholesaleappcommunity.com/
The full press release [...]

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Debi Jones joins the team


A quick introductory post to formally welcome Debi Jones to the Telefonica Developer Community team. Debi’s role will be to lead the editorial and community management strategy, to fuel our growing ambition in the Developer space.
Many of you will already know Debi, and you can see her work on her personal blog: www.mobilejones.com
This is a [...]

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Hectic start to 2010


Next week brings the daddy of all mobile related events, Mobile World Congress. I’m aiming to write throughout the week at MWC, as I did in 2009, but who knows if those good intentions will be delivered upon! I definitely will be glued to Twitter, so be sure to follow me for updates from the show [...]

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Making sense of a fragmented world; Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond


Since I first starting working on the O2 Litmus concept back in early 2008, I have always tried to ensure our strategy and plans have been under pinned by a clear understanding of both developer needs, and the requirements of O2’s customers. To date we have conducted four major pieces of developer & customer research in 2008 and then refreshing in [...]

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Diversifying O2 Litmus away from pure mobile


In the first major interview of 2010 with paidContent:UK, I hinted at some of our upcoming plans.
A key foundation of our strategy is to broaden our appeal to the web developer community by making available web compatible tools, and by bringing through new innovative features and offers. This strategy actually is not so new. A kind of [...]

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O2 Litmus 2009 Review


Welcome to my wrap up of 2009, looking back at the highs and lows in the run up to the first anniversary of O2 Litmus launching. It’s been a busy year, with Litmus growing from a standing start to a growing community of developers, customers and other mobile industry partners.
At the beginning of this year, [...]

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What role can the Mobile Operator play in developer ecosystem? Part 2


Firstly thanks for all the comments on Part 1 of this piece. I received a lot of constructive feedback on Twitter and face to face, I just need more people to leave me comments here, hint hint
It was pointed out via Twitter that the Operator should concentrate on delivering a great pipe. I’d [...]

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