Mobile World Congress spins up in a couple of weeks time but like any good event, the real action takes place ‘Off Broadway” at the fringe events. And that’s not just because TechCrunch is running an event: TechCrunchTalk Mobile 2.0. One of the main one this year is The Mobile Peer Awards from the Mobile Monday global non-profit network. They have picked their finalists for the awards from a list which started at 162, went to 42 and is now down to the final 20. It’s necessarily from a wide cross-section of countries because each MM chapter picks ‘their’ winner. Hence why there is only one finalist from Silicon Valley – Soonr – but that means you also get to hear about Aradiom from Istanbul, among others. Some of the trends are clear: location-based services, events, social networking, producivity apps, app stores, enterprise and VOIP. The full list of finalists appears after the jump.
The finalists are divided in two categories: early-stage and emerging.
Registration to attend the event is now open here.
Early Stage Startups:
Addict Digital Media – Mobile Monday Buenos Aires
aka-aki networks GmbH – MobileMonday Berlin
Babajob.com – MobileMonday Bangalore
Big in Japan Inc. – MobileMonday Dallas
bioLocate – MobileMonday Jakarta
Dial2Do – MobileMonday Dublin
Fortumo – MobileMonday Estonia
Mob4Hire – MobileMonday Vancouver
Orbster GmbH – MobileMonday Munich
Oxynade – MobileMonday Brussels
Tellmewhere – MobileMonday Paris
Xumii – MobileMonday Sydney
Emerging Startups
Aradiom – MobileMonday Istanbul
fring – MobileMonday Tel Aviv
Getjar Networks – MobileMonday Lithuania
Keynetik – MobileMonday Washington DC
Mobintech A/S – MobileMonday Copenhagen
PopCatcher AB – MobileMonday Sweden
Soonr – MobileMonday Silicon Valley
Unkasoft Advergaming – MobileMonday Madrid
Fly me out and I’ll go
Can’t say I’ve heard of many of these companies – except for Fring, Big In Japan, and Mob4Hire – but I know there are some incredibly innovative mobile startups coming alive today, and this event should be a blast.
Registered to this event which is really promising. Can’t wait to discover new mobile startups. And congrats to MM Barcelona for putting together such an event (Props to Rudy.)
To bad http://m.mwd.com is not competing as best twitter mobile web app.
What a great time for an overseas conference focusing on irrelevant start ups that will produce no revenue and be funded for no one.
Time to fly home–coach–put on big boy pants and help solve America’s problems by creating products that HELP people.
Okay? Gooood. Thanks…
No one will be attending.
Horrid idea. Terrible timing.
Empty-headed planning. Useless Symposium. Tired Award Arse Slapping. Humorless Geek Prostitute Soliciting.
I hope the overpriced Barcelonian hotel you’re holding this wasteful spending orgie falls on top of your collective-yet empty–heads.
I think three of these tiny tot start-ups actually went out of business since posting this “absolutely terrible idea story.”
Bucher: please punch yourself in the larnyx.
Happy to see that Soonr made the cut as the Silicon Valley representive, I use their service every day – as an outside sales person, its great to have all my documents available on my iPhone. Soonr renders document better and faster than any other service, i have tried. All these guys need to provide is more storage for me…
The link to GetJar is broken: http://www.getjar.com.
Kudos to @SOS100 & his team at dial2do. The next spinvox me thinks..
Mmm… to be honest when I first saw the name “Mob4Hire” I thought they were offering other kind of services
The cynics on this thread need to note that Barcelona is a short, cheap flight away from the rest of Europe and is therefore not as expensive to visit as it would be if you were from a failing economy on the other side of the Atlantic.
Well said Mike. I guess if we take the advice of the negative comments we should ….do what? Stay at home and wait for things to get better?
Hmmm. Don’t think so.
MWC is the largest Telecom Industry meet-up worldwide, annually. Even our US colleagues (who attend in droves) agree that it’s the *key* event to attend on the calendar to meet everyone in the industry in one place, one time. Not dissing CTIA, CommunicAsia, or any other large telecom events. This is however, *the* one.
So you may want to do more homework on the conference before writing it off. It serves a very useful purpose, annually, good times and bad.
We’ll be there! Look us up at our booth (7A70) or http://www.mojiva.com.
Fring is a worthy winner
Butcher blockhead:
Might want to look around you, govna’. It’s called a Global resession for a reason.
Bloody Nitwit.
Can’t believe how incredibly negative and simple minded the critics are.
We HELP the economic problems by continuing to do business and support the new and emerging companies.
Worthless mobile apps??? Do YOUR homework guys…companies like SoonR with their PRODUCTIVITY app for the iPhone and secure cloud storage are improving the way we do business…GLOBALLY!!
Bitter your company didn’t make it?