In order to promote our outstanding speakers, We decide to use all means in ours possession (Mac, iMovie, Camera, Web 2.0) to let them speak freely to people who did not have the chance to be with us at the MobileMonday Taipei.

During the 12th MobileMonday (How to get your own 15 minutes), we interviewed 3 guests :

- Shine Chen, Business Development Director at Keytalks.com, a service from HEMiDEMi.com

- Yoser Chen, General Manager at APMobile.com.

- Steve Follmer, Taiwan based entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Live365.com.

MobileMonday Taipei is turning one year old !! MobileMonday Taipei chapter organized the first gathering on June 4th, 2007 and it has been one year since the grand opening. In the past year, we have already organized 10 events with different interesting topics, and certainly generate many interests and attention in the mobile community in Taiwan. For our next MobileMonday Taipei event, we are going to have a first anniversary party to celebrate the birthday of MobileMonday Taipei, and we’d like to invite all the mobile people in Taipei to celebrate with us and to support MobileMonday Taipei!

Besides the birthday party for MobileMonday Taipei, we will also present a special project to you, the PUNCAR ACTION , a charity project to foster mobility and digital awareness to the people in the rural corners of Taiwan!

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Place:

Mary’s Bistro 2F, N0.89, Sec.2, RenAi Rd.

Directions : Please visit www.maryscafe.com.tw

REGISTER HERE
Please RSVP to attend.

Today’s active social networking members represent more than one-third of the total
worldwide Internet user base, for a figure of 530m members worldwide. As social networking develops as an industry, mobility will play a vital role in shaping the future. There are strong forces bringing SNSs and mobility together, including the industry wide trend toward presence and personalization. The ability of members to access a social networking site from anywhere will enhance the utility of the SNS and thus boost the amount of advertising revenue that it can generate. For mobile operators, SNS could greatly increase mobile data usage, which has so far been lackluster in most markets, and open the door to new revenue streams from subscription fees or advertising. To that end, a broad range of handset suppliers, network equipment providers and software developers have been making progress in addressing technical obstacles to mobile social networking — such as the need for bandwidth, devices and browsers.

For this month’s MobileMonday Taipei event, we are going to talk about social networking going mobile, we have invited four representatives from social networking site, microblog site, mobile-only community managing company and telecom operator to have a panel discussion about mobile social networking.

Moderator: Mr. Tzuhan Schee ��涵

PANELISTS:

Mr. Jerry Kuo (郭書齊), founder of Atlaspost.com (地圖日記)執行長

Atlaspost.com quickly became the number one social network to use a map (i.e. social mapping network) in Taiwan, with a user base that grew 20 times in less than half a year. Because of their impressive record in Taiwan, on January 30th, 2008, they were given the rare opportunity to get on stage at DEMO 08, an elite high technology conference and showcase, and share their site with the world. At DEMO 08, atlaspost.com blew away the audience with their presentation and their innovative website. For their excellent presentation, they won the prestigious People’s Choice Award, in which they’re the 2nd company to receive the honor in the 15 years of the awards existence. After DEMO 08, atlaspost.com has garnered a firestorm of interest and will be establishing their US office later this year.

Mr.Akang (阿康), founder of Buboo(巴布)

Twitter has created a new way to for people to write their blogs, which is called “Microblog�, users can just use their cell phones to write their blogs via SMS. When Akang discovered Twitter for the first time, he thinks this is a very interesting information platform, very easy to use. But because there is no Chinese interface for Twitter, there are not that many users in Taiwan. So Akang and his wife decided to set up the Taiwanese version of Twitter and name it “Buboo�. What does Buboo mean? Buboo is a slang people use when they hear people are blubbing or just talking nonsense, it’s informal but very down to earth, so they want everyone who uses this site can feel the same way. There were already 2000 members in one month after Buboo established, and there are 200 to 300 people signing up everyday. They are adding more new functions to Buboo, to provide the use a much better Internet environment for users.

Mr. Yoser Chen (陳清育), General Manager, AP-Mobile (力�科技)

Since 2003, AP-Mobile has been managing 6 mobile only community groups across 7 different operators. There are total over 2.5 millions members, and average 500,000 page view per day. AP-Mobile is the biggest mobile-only community managing company in Taiwan.

Mr. Jason Huang (黃騰章), Senior Director of Product Division of VIBO Telecom

VIBO, a pure 3G service operator, has launched its 3G network across Taiwan in December, 2005 to provide subscribers with advanced broadband capabilities and 3G multi-media services. Within three months of operation, VIBO has successfully obtained 100,000 subscribers to be the leader in Taiwan 3G market. In addition, VIBO consists on offering latest technologies for its subscribers, including wireless surveillance system, 3-way video calls, interactive multimedia platform and innovative life customer services, aiming to speed up Taiwan 3G wireless telecommunication development as a whole.

Event Program:Date: Monday, May 5th, 2008
7 PM - Check In
7:30 PM - Panel Discussion
8 :30 PM - Networking Time

Place :

Mary’s Bistro 2F, N0.89, Sec.2, RenAi Rd.

Directions:Please visit www.maryscafe.com.tw

REGISTER HERE

Please RSVP to attend.

Recently, Google showed off a “revitalized� version of Android, which is starting to look a little (more) like the iPhone. The “refreshed� Android SDK has a User Interface that features “smooth, animated transitions� Sounds familiar?
Both Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android OS focus on the User Interface to provide a unique - and addictive - user experience. Indeed, most people are loyal to a U.I. (or “trapped� in a U.I.) once they have adopted it. Today a link between the phone itself and the User, the U.I. is likely to become the link between a service offer and the User (think iTunes, Gmail, etc.).

This month, MobileMonday Taipei is inviting two U.I. experts, working for two different leading handset manufacturers in Taiwan. They will share their insights on how strategic the user interface is becoming to handset manufacturers, operators and Internet champions (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!), and exchange on the latest trends in U.I. in terms of usability and user experience.

Presenters:

Yi-Hsiu Li (�易修), Innovationeer, Innovation & Material lab, ASUS Design

Mr. Yi-Sho Li, currently working for ASUS industrial design department as User Interface Design researcher. Earlier in his career, Mr. Li worked as a graphic designer, later worked as multimedia webpage designer. Mr. Li is specialized in Flash/Flash Lite application, he is also the core member of Adobe User Group of Taiwan. During his free time, he likes to hand on all the latest gadgets to discover the concept behind the design, you can discover more of Mr.Li’s ideas and thoughts on his personal blog http://www.lis186.com/.

Francois Bellet-Odent.User Experience Design Consultant

Mr.Bellet-Odent is a User Experience Design Consultant, who used to work for HTC ID Design department for four years, his background is in Industrial Design Engineering, with experience in Product Desgin, now he focus the on User Interface and User Experience.

David Chen (陳文剛), UI Leader, BenQ Lifestyle Design Center

Mr. Chen has worked as a UI architect for BenQ Lifestyle Design Center for almost 5 years. He has various interests in arts, internet service, multimedia, information communication, and user experience design. You will know better about David through his personal website http://www.handyui.com.

Johnson Chao(趙嘉�), UI Leader, BenQ Lifestyle Design Center.

Mr. Chao is a UI designer in BenQ. With the Psychology background and the passion of observing human behavior, he is now devoting himself to finding solutions for better user experiences in the digital world.

Time: 7 PM, Monday, April 14th, 2008
Place:

Mary’s Bistro 2F, N0.89, Sec.2, RenAi Rd.

REGISTER HERE

Today online Marketing is taking over traditional marketing but still suffers from the lack of good metrics and measurement. At the same time, mobile marketing growing is promising thrilling opportunities to reach the customer even more direct and personalized. And it is an attractive option if you look how the cell phone is used and present all the time - no need to emphasize on that.

According to a survey conducted by a mobile marketing provider, approximately 89% of major brands are planning to market their products through text and multimedia mobile messaging by 2008. One-third of them are planning to spend about 10% of marketing budgets through mobile marketing. Also, in about 5 years over half of brands are expected to spend between 5% and 25% of their total marketing budget on their mobile marketing. Already, 40% of the firms that responded have implemented this feature for their audiences.

This month’

s MobileMonday Taipei event we will talk about Mobile Marketing, we invite Ms. Rio Kao from AP-Mobile, to share with us their experience in mobile marketing and also to showcase a new “voice search” tool for mobile marketing. We also invite Ms. Tina Su, the Deputy Manager of Marketing Div., Taiwan Fixed Network (previously the Enterprise Solution department of Taiwan Mobile), to share her experience and thoughts on mobile marketing.

Event Program

7PM Check In

7:30 PM - 8:30PM Presentation and Q&A

“Fantasy VS. Reality - Mobile Marketing In Taiwan”

Ms. Rio Kao, Director, Interactive Marketing Div. AP-Mobile

“Roaming In/Out Advertising SMS”

Ms. Tina Su, Deputy Manager of Marketing Div., Enterprise Solution Dept. Of Taiwan MobilePlace (NEW!): Mary’s Bistro 2F, N0.89, Sec.2, RenAi Rd.Directions:Please visit www.maryscafe.com.tw

And this time the event will proceed in Chinese (English translation available).Please click here to register and we will send you an invitation.

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You can also download the presentation here!