We had a great time at the AT&T Developer Summit held January 6th in Las Vegas. 
Our WIPJam Quiz was a hit – powered by great phone/t-shirt prizes and eager developers! Did you know that an ant can live 2 weeks under water? Crazy but true. What does that have to do with the mobile industry you ask? Not much but we had to throw in a few easy questions! Developers rocked and so did we along with AT&T staff and event sponsors. Christian Kurzke from Motorola got into the grove with Caroline Lewko from WIP. DS Benbow from AT&T, Caroline and I, Teresa Ostman, posed for a quick photo opt during the fun! Jam On! Photos by George Bekich
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The Dev Program Bowling Smackdown held April 2 after the Jam Session was a perfect ending to a great day of Jam’n. Nine teams lead by Developer program representatives battled it out on the bowling lanes for the right to claim the title of “Best Bowlers”. The title goes to The Blackberry Bruisers! Congratulations!
Here are the Smackdown results:
- 1st - The Blackberry Bruisers with an average score of 118 points
- 2nd – The AT&T ATTackers – 115 points
- 3rd - The Microsoft Incredibowls – 104 points
- The ACCESS King Pins – 103 points
- The OMTP Surfers – 102 points
- The Symbian Sizzlers – 100 points
- The Sun Hyper Strikers – 98 points
- The Sony Ericsson High Rollers – 97 points
- The Oracle Gutter Brawlers – 86 points
It was an evening of bowling, networking, laughing and singing. Yes, by popular demand, Jameoke was back, lead by Stephen from Mob4Hire! “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” was a crowd favourite once again.
Thank you to our sponsors. Without you, these great events would not be possible. Special thanks to Symbian for the bowling team T-shirts!
Please see video coverage of the event! WIP Jam Dev Program Bowling Smackdown
Thank you to all attendees, speakers, discussion leaders and sponsors for helping to make our 8th Jam Session, held April 2nd, 2009 at CTIA in Vegas, a huge success. By the numbers, there were:
- 189 attendees from 12 countries and 5 continents representing
130 companies - 14 speakers
- 21 discussion leaders
- 8 discussion topics
- 7 sponsors
Stay tuned for announcements of future WIP Jam Sessions coming soon! Jam on!
Only one more sleep before WIPJam and SmackDown Bowling & Jameoke!
We are pleased to announce the following teams and their captains:
Lane & Team Captain
1. The ACCESS ‘King Pins’- Jimmy ‘Ninja’ Della
2. The Sony Ericsson ‘High Rollers’- Eric ‘Madness’ Ang
3. The AT&T ‘ATTackers’- Amy ‘Boom Boom’ Law
4. The Symbian ‘Sizzlers’- Paul ‘Rabble Rouser’ Jarratt
5. The Blackberry ‘Bruisers’- Mike ‘Stinger’ Kirkup
6. The Oracle ‘Gutter Brawlers’- Steve ‘The Body’ Cull
7. The Microsoft ‘The Incredibowls’- Kevin ‘Killer’ McGuire
8. The Orange ‘Krushers’- Steve ‘Yankee’ Glagow
9. The OMTP ‘Surfers’- Tim ‘ Eat my Dust’ Haysom
10. The Sun ‘Hyper Strikers’- Yael ‘Twinkle Toes’ Wagner
It is going to be a fabulous event. You have to be a registered Jam’er and must attend WIPJAM to get your intive to this once in a lifetime chance to “BOWL with the Developer Programs”!
Transportation and location hints for the SmackDown: Shuttles are available to the RIO from the Paris and the Harris. Once you are at the RIO, Lucky Strikes is located across from the Carnival World Buffet!
Jam on!
Here’s who! So far anyway – registration closes on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. What are you waiting for?
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Well we don’t think we can just stop jamm’n after our Day for Developers is over at the upcoming International CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas. Our sponsors and developers didn’t either – so we added an After Party!
And in true WIP fashion, we wanted an event that was fun, interactive, and really condusive to great networking. Why not bowling!
Wait for it – we are hosting the Dev Program Bowling SmackDown event after Jam starting at 8:30pm at the Lucky Strike Bowling Lanes and Lounge. Ten Developer Programs including Access, Sony Ericsson, Symbian Foundation, AT&T Dev Central, RIM-Blackberry, Microsoft-Windows Mobile, Oracle, and Orange Partner will square off joined by Jam attendees. Rumour has it that Symbian is bringing 10 different colored t-shirts for the teams! We will announce the team captains and team names next week.
We are also pleased to again have Stephen King from Mob4Hire lead Jameoke – it was so popular at MWC in Barcelona. We’ll have 2 guitars and a set of bongo drums, and lots of good songs – so be sure to join in to the fun.
This is an INVITE ONLY party, so you have to sign up and attend our WIP Jam Day for Developers to get your ticket…. or suck up to a WIPster or sponsor for a few additional tickets that will be around.
Jam on!
Another Contest!
Don’t miss your chance to pitch your cutting-edge mobile app, service, or content to AT&T for a chance to win a share of $70,000 in cash prizes, the opportunity to go-to-market with AT&T, and the coveted title of 2009 Fast-Pitch Platinum Award winner.
devCentral, the AT&T Developer Program, will be hosting the Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards for consumer and enterprise developers at CTIA Wireless at the Las Vegas Convention Center, April 1-3, 2009. These awards are designed to recognize the innovation, creativity, and skill of the mobile development community.
Submissions for the contest are due by 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time, March 10, 2009. Learn more about the awards and enter soon!
To ensure consideration, it is highly encouraged that you enter the contest now even if you are not ready to submit your full application yet. You can then return to the Fast-Pitch registration site to submit your application before the entry deadline of 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time, March 10, 2009.
Selected contest entrants will pitch and demonstrate their solutions to a panel of AT&T decision makers in a private meeting at CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas.
Go to the Fast-Pitch registration site for complete contest rules, descriptions and details for consumer and enterprise categories, and to sign up!
After bidding adieu to #mwc09, we’re back to work for the CTIA (Vegas baby!) WIPJAM. This week’s mobilist comes from Golden Swamp, and they have provided some link love on our Mobile World Congress wrap up as well as some discussion on how much we actually like the touch screen revolution.
In completely unrelated news, WIPJAM has now upgraded along with the rest of the world to Wordpress 2.7.1! Yeah!
On behalf of DotOpen and WIP who have partnered to bring you Mobile Jam session – thanks to all the participants, the speakers, the sponsors and Teresa Ostman for making things work smoothly. Watch the website for upcoming opportunities to Jam On! And check out the photos on Flickr.
Here are notes takes from the Mobile Jam Las Vegas. Some of these were taken during the sessions, much were taken directly from the flipchart notes made during the Improv Sessions. If you see a mistake or something taken out of context – correct it with your comments!
On the question of Barriers to Development, the top issues for developers were:
- social networking in a broad sense
– evangelists and viral work best
Here’s the list of the companies attending as of now. If you’d like to participate, hurry up and register now… there are only a few seats left! Check also our agenda and bio’s of speakers.
See you on Monday… Jam On!
3Screens.tv
Accenture
Airsource Ltd
AOL
AORTA
Aplix Corp.
Arena Mobile
Astraware/Handmark
AT&T
AuthenTec
Avot Media Inc
Bango
Brilliant Expos
Buzzd
CellSpin
ComVu Media, Inc.
Corrigo
Crisp Wireless
deCarta Inc
Device Anywhere
Dilithium Networks
Direct Mobile Partners
dotMobi
dotopen
Drop In Media / Ojingo Labs
Face Cake
Funambol
GamearraY
GenMobi Technologies Inc.
GetJar Networks
GW Hannaway & Associates
Handi Mobility Inc.
HI Corporation America, Inc.
HookMobile
I-Com Mobile
Idean
Innoscape
IntoMobile.com
ipsh!
IUGO Mobile Entertainment
Javaground, Inc.
Jibe Mobile
Keynote
La cuisine des papas
Lab Shanghai International
Limbo
Litefeeds
MangoMOBILE
Mark Space, Inc.
Microsoft
MIT/Stanford Venture Lab
Mob4hire Inc.
MobHappy
Mobile Distillery
Mobileslate
Mobopia
Motorola, Inc.
MPOGD.com
MX TELECOM
MyStrands
Mywaves
NII Holdings, Inc.
Nokia
Novatel Wireless, Inc.
OnDeego Inc
OnPR
Openwave Systems, Inc.
Orange Partner
Powernet Global
Qipit, Inc.
Quattro Wireless
R Systems
Recom Research
Redwood Technologies
Rococo
Sage COnsulting
Scigliano Group
Sipcall.com Inc.
Socialight
Some Bazaar
Sony Ericsson
SoonR
Staffing Elements
Symbian Ltd
TBD
Teradata Corporation
Textopoly, Inc.
Tira Wireless, Inc
UIQ Technology
Vibes Media
Vindigo
vringo
Walk The Talk Media
Wavefront
YYZ Technologies
