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To have a succesfull business in mobile applications you need more than coding your app. More and more the practical dos and don’ts in terms of structuring the business and looking at legal issues are part of the success as well. Thanks to our legal partner Stibbe, and in cooperation with AGORIA, Mobile Monday Brussels organises a first round table session, with at each table a specialist lawyer of Stibbe present to moderate the following topics: Leveraging your Expertise: can I recycle features in future app development projects? Who owns the Intellectual Property? What about legal protection? Are you selling …

•Tanguy De Lestré: Intro for MobileMonday.be http://www.slideshare.net/momobxlw/intromobileappsforculture
•Noël Van Herreweghe Coordination Cel e-government (CORVE) http://www.slideshare.net/momobxlw/opendataforum-nvanherreweghe
•Thomas Bonte: Music Hack Day

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dfbtspcr_5f69wkhcn

•Pieter Colpaert (OKFN): Local chapter Open Knowledge Foundation (http://okfn.org/community/) http://pieter.demo.thedatatank.com/AppsForCulture/
•Bart Rosseau: Gent and open data initiatives http://www.slideshare.net/momobxlw/opendatastad-gentbartrosseau

Recordings (sound OK; image quality average
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/momobxllive
Recorded stream of 13/2 Apps for culture live demo at minute 54 http://ustre.am/E1Wh #momobxl

What do you think about integrating digitized information on cultural heritage and events in your mobile app? These days, a large amount of sources can be integrated using easy API’s. Moreover, the open data movement is promoting further re-use of these public data sets. During this special Mobile Monday session in Ghent, you will: – be able to meet the data holders of this cultural information, look at demos and understand how these can be integrated in a mobile app; – discuss the best use of mobile development and public cultural data; – look into solutions for this emerging field …

Last Monday December 12, Corelio had a fully booked venue for Mobile Monday on the the Social-Local-Mobile topic. For those who would like to have a closer look at the presentations, and for those who could not make it, we have now uploaded all presentations. You can find them in the SoLoMo event page and on the Mobile Monday Slideshare account.  

When Steve Jobs said, “PCs are going to be like trucks. They’re still going to be around, they’re still going to have a lot of value, but they’re going to be used by 1 out of X number of people,” 
he was announcing a new era of computing. It is here and we are in the heat of it! What does that new era really mean? Is the power triangle: Social-Local-Mobile? Who is defining this era and why? Have we crowned 3 new kings in “Social, Local, Mobile”? The likes of Groupon, Yelp, Foursquare or Zynga have forged new ground. …

I would like to stress the overall quality of this Mobile Monday event; high level audience present (around 50), cutting edge Q&A going to the root of issues, a knowledgeable panel, a great location in the Belgacom Auditorium. (Yes the same one where quarter results are announced…) and neat networking. On top of that, we got great feedback from the streaming audience (16 during live session). This means that in terms of events, a streaming channel provides a true experience for people who for some reason cannot be present (watching show on webtv even) and streaming is not cannibalizing the …

Mobile devices have triggered a whole new movement in enterprises; work is not longer linked to location, time or even device. What are the technology challenges? What are the new possibilities, applications, services or features that will empower mobile workers even more? Experts on these subjects will cover several interesting topics: Mobile data, Device Management, Mobile Security and Mobile Enterprise Apps. Please Register in Advance Here! Program: 18h00 Registration 18h30 Introduction “The B2B Mobile Challenges” 18h45 Presentations Belgacom MAC by Jan Paesen – Director Mobility at Belgacom Mobile Device Management by Ulrik Van Schepdael – Mobco Mobile Security by Jan …

User Experience, key enabler of Mobile usage “Design is not just how it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”#stevejobs Now that Mobile Adoption is reaching mass market thanks to smartphones, applications and affordable data plan, focus moves from acquisition to usage and loyalty. Professionals now receive valuable feedback from all types of users, not just Early Adopters anymore, and start to worry about the User Experience of this new touch point and on how to orchestrate it with other brand touch points. User-Centered Design is a discipline that, among others, challenges the choices made by testing …

Here is the latest status of the upcoming events: 17/10 18H Mobile UX  @Namahn – Registrations opened 7/10 Mobile  18H B2B / inhouse apps/development/ @Belgacom Towers 12/12  18H Mobile NFC Mobile-Social-Local @Corelio Partnering with following events: 8-9/11  EU Hackaton @European Parliament  http://www.euhackathon.eu . 24-25/11 Kikkfestival  Mobile Hackaton @Namur Creative Wallonia http://www.kikk.be/ And 2012  note already: 27/2-1/3 Mobilemonday @  Belgian Pavillon Mobile World Congress – Barcelona Would you want to participate and provide input, feel free to contact core teaminfo@mobilemonday.be 

First of all, congratulations to all presenters; but there need to be a list of awards. So Public vote went to the B2B app “Showpad” by Pieter Jan and Louis Jonckheere, Showpad Blogger Vote went to “Storees” by Saskia Videler And finally Jury prize went to “Suske en Wiske, de stuivende stad” by Valentijn Destoop and co, Little Miss Robot More feedback to follow later this week. Stats of the event: +220 registered, +180 present, 230 streaming hours, 478 unique viewers, 24 ppts, 12 free phones, 322 tweeple, +1400 tweets