London Mobile Week

We want the world to hear about BlueVia, warts and all

October 10, 2011 Leave a Comment

Last week was London Mobile Week. It was a jam packed week of amazing mobile related events, many of which BlueVia was proud to sponsor. London Mobile week also saw the début of a new approach for promoting BlueVia.

And if you’re a mobile developer, we think you might be interested in it.

As we head into the final quarter of 2011 we have reached two important milestones:

We now have thousands of developers working on the platform, creating great product. We will continue to publish case studies of cool stuff created using BlueVia on our Slideshare account [link], so stay tuned
We have already attended, sponsored, coded and presented at more than 100 events across Europe, North, and South America, and there are still two and a bit months left in 2011! Wow!

With this in mind we came to the conclusion that probably many people were bored listening to the same old faces from the BlueVia team!

Putting our developers centre stage

Therefore we have now decided that when we have stage time at an event, we will turn this time over to one of the developers working with the platform whenever possible. Our thinking is you want to hear what it is really like working with BlueVia from a fellow developer, warts and all, not a nice slick marketing presentation from us.

Well, we put this approach to the test last week, with our first two developer presentations being delivered by Peter Swain from Always On Message at Planet of the Apps and Yosi Taguri from Labgoo at DroidCon UK (you can see their presentations and slides below).

Based on initial feedback at the events, this approach seems to have been well received. Below you can watch the presentations and review the slides. Please let us know what you think.

If you want to be featured at one of our future events, get in touch.

Peter Swain at Planet of the Apps

You can view or download Peter’s slide deck or watch the video of his presentation:

Yosi Taguri at DroidCon UK

Watch Yosi deliver his presentation at DroidCon UK here:

Filed Under: Events, Mobile Tagged With: DroidCon, London Mobile Week, Peter Swain, Planet of the Apps, warts and all, Yosi Taguri

Seconds away… APIgee developer day

September 29, 2011 Leave a Comment

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We cannot wait for Saturday. This is the day of APIgee’s developer day at TechHub in London. We’ve been working closely with APIgee for a while, and were delighted when we jointly launched a BlueVia API console earlier this year. They are a great team and we’re always pretty happy when we hear they are visiting London.

That’s why we’ve been gearing up for this event for a while. We’ll be there to show off the simplicity of the BlueVia API set and we hope many of the teams can come up with innovative ways to use our APIs. We’ve seen some truly groundbreaking work done at previous events like this and we’re always excited to help developers find their way around the BlueVia platform.

This is also the first time developers at a hack day will be able to make use of our payments API. So we’re partcularly excited to see if anyone can weave in a commercial dimension to the apps they invent at the weekend.

The tickets are free, so please don’t hesitate to book up. And even if you can’t get your hands on one, follow #techhub on Twitter over the next few days to follow what’s going on with the APIgee hack day, and also the TechHub Mobile Meetup, part of London Mobile Week.

Filed Under: APIs, Events Tagged With: Apigee, developer day, London Mobile Week, TechHub

Six mobile events join forces to launch London Mobile Week (30 Sep – 7 Oct)

September 22, 2011 Leave a Comment

With a whole series of attention-grabbing mobile events coming up in London in the weeks ahead, you may have been wondering how you will keep track of them all.

So were we, but we’re glad that six of the major events in question – Over the Air, TechHub Mobile Meetup, Sybase Enterprise Mobility Forum, Planet of the Apps, MMA Forum and DroidCon – have joined forces to create the first ever London Mobile Week (you can follow @LDNmobileweek on Twitter).

During that week, the attention of the global mobile industry will be on the UK. The events will cater to every aspect of the mobile industry, from app development to the future of the industry itself – no subject is off limits, as long as it’s mobile!

London Mobile Week – the running order

Over the Air kicks things off in Bletchley Park on 30 September with its geek-out hack event running through to 1 October (and in all probability, that means through the night). Then on Monday 3 October, TechHub takes over, holding the TechHub Mobile Meetup during the afternoon. TechHub is one of London’s foremost networking venues and workspaces. It’s one place you’re guaranteed to meet people you might do business with, including the BlueVia team, who will be there in force.

The Tuesday is where things get busy, with Sybase running its Enterprise Mobility Seminar during the morning (entitled “How mobile apps and tablets will transform your business”) and the Mobile Marketing Association starting its two-day forum. There’s a great line-up of speakers at both events.

Meanwhile, Planet of the Apps kicks off three days of intense focus on mobile app development. This is the second annual Planet of the Apps and its speakers including the CEOs of Rovio, Shazam, Flirtomatic and the Global Digital Directors of Universal Music and London 2012.

Finishing the week off in style, DroidCon takes place over the Thursday and Friday, making Android the centre of attention for a couple of days. Again, it’s a strong speaker line up, including Google, Sony Eriksson, InMobi… and of course, BlueVia.

If you want to find out more about the events during the week, please visit the website. If you are running your own mobile event during the week, please tweet us and we’ll do our best to promote it on your behalf. This is a fantastic example of the mobile industry pulling together – and we want as many people as possible to feel part of it.

Look out for Team BlueVia – we hope to see you at one of the events!