Category: Conferences

Windows Phone China, Nokia Drive/Transport/Maps, Creative Studio and SXSW on the AAWP podcast

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[audio:http://mediafiles.allaboutwindowsphone.com/aawp_20120322_018.mp3] In episode eighteen of the All About Windows Phone Insight Podcast, we start with the details of Microsoft’s launch event for Windows Phone in China. The team then cover the latest updates to Nokia Drive (version 2.0) and Nokia Maps (version 1.3), plus the release of Nokia Transport and Creative Studio, before Ewan shares his Windows Phone related experiences from SXSW. We finish, as usual, with an app pick from each member of the team.

Ewan at SXSW: Speaking at 20×2 tonight

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Yes, I’m safely at SXSW and if you need to get in touch with me, the US mobile is 512 605 7162. If you’re around tnight, I’ll be speaking at the annual 20×2: “twenty speakers, one question, two minutes each”. Along with everyone else, I’ll be answering the question “How did I get here“, although I suspect I might be the only person trying to squeeze in an Arnold Brown reference.

Stop offering MWC tickets on their own as prize

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Lots of mobile sites offering a free ticket to MWC which happens next week (here’s Microsoft’s Window Blog, as one example). A little note for those sites… the ticket to MWC is not the issue. The price of a flight, along with accommodation in Barcelona at short notice, that’s the problem. And it’s a problem that isn’t solved as part of your prize package. Same goes for SXSW badges, if there are no hotels available in Austin, don’t offer a badge without offering to help with accommodation.

Sifting though music for gold at SXSW Baby

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When you have close to 2000 bands playing at SXSW, each doing at least one thirty minute sets, it’s not an easy task to decide who to go and see. I do leave part of it to serendipity, but that’s only going to get you part of the way. And with my SXSW Baby hat, it’s always nice to have some recommendations in hand and a bit of a schedule scratched out on the Filofax. With the rest of the team, I’m working through the process to put together sampler archive that is posted annual on The Baby!, and that

I’ll be speaking at London Social Media Week’s Ignite

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Social Media Week this year is Feb13-17, and I’ll be involved in one or two of the events in the London wing of the event, specifically speaking at the Ignite event on Feb 15, starting around 7pm: Ignite started in Seattle about 5 years ago and is the brainchild of Brady Forrest, Technology Evangelist for O’Reilly Media, and Bre Pettis of Makerbot.com. Basically, it’s a presentation style where you are asked to present about something you love for 5 minutes. 20 slides. 15 seconds each. Think Pecha Kucha. That’s all you need to know. This edition of Ignite is being