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[edit] About the Mobile Collective

The Mobile Collective will spend two days geeking out on portable connectivity and its implications, hopefully with lots of input from the Mobile Mondays folks. Topics of interest include:
Mobile Search Shootout - Yahoo vs Google vs Zook.in vs who else?
What's a dev to target? SMS vs GPRS/WAP vs mobile apps.
Mobile payments - when will they be ubiquitous and by whom?
Indian Twitter competitors?
Mobiles and bottom of the pyramid users - how are they making a difference?
Applications that make mobile phones Location Aware - Can GPS apps reach out to everyone?

[edit] Collective Coordinators

If you would like to help this collective, Add your name here. And coordinate.

1. Sean Blagsvedt, Blog,sean _at_ babajob.com, Bangalore, Babajob.com
2. Vinu : vranganathan .at.gmail .dot. com, Bangalore
3. Vishnu Sunderam, [1],vishnu@i10n.com, Bangalore

[edit] Topics You'd like to Hear About

1. Mobile Search
2. SMS vs GPRS vs applications - why and how?
3. What are the opportunities for Indian mobile startups?
4. Mobile Learning
5. Mobile Communities
6. Free Software used to send SMS from mobile via PC
7. Mobile and Social / Environmental Use

If you feel anything missing out here. Add it to the menu.

[edit] Proposed Sessions

If you want to share your knowledge, or passionate about some kool stuff. Add your name here as a speaker here:

1. Ashish Sinha pluGGd.in:: Mobile Monetization models
2. GPRS, Mobile and you - :-) I think this is a must needed session - is anybody ready to join me? Vinu
   • Free Software used to send SMS from mobile via PC
3. Vivek Khurana :: FOSS based mobile phone distibutions. Openembedded, angstrom, openmoko etc.
4. Ranganath.S:ranganaths@gmail.com :: http://www.ranganaths.wordpress.com :: Integrating Enterprise Apps with Mobile Apps.
5. Jonathan Donner, Researcher, Microsoft Research India :: http://research.microsoft.com/~jdonner/ :: An overview of the Technology for

1000 Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research India, with a focus on mobile-phone user research.

1. Sean Blagsvedt, CEO, Babajob, :: http://Babalife.com :: Introducing Babalife.com (or why India does need another mobile social networking site)
2. Vishnu Sunderam, CTO, Interchain :: http://www.gpswatcher.com/ :: GPS enable your mobile phones (Discussion on the endless possibilities with Mobile GPS application like GPSWatch)
3. Siddhartha Reddy & Dhayanithi Subramaniam Zook.in :: Mobile Search 101 - The Whys, Hows and Therefore of it all...
4. 3G Vs WiMAX:Sujai Karampuri, Co-Founder & CEO, Sloka Telecom.
5. Sundar and Nikhil :: Zook.in :: Making your mobile social net work

[edit] Collective Registration

Registrations have been closed and you if you have registered you can find your name here

Others who wish to attend this collective please go to the homepage and add your name on the waiting list! We hope you will get lucky by saturday!

[edit] Schedule Day 2 (Sunday)

[edit] Resources Required

Please list resources required to run this collective at the event. This is to be kept updated by the Collective coordinators.

The current list of resources required for this collective are:

• One room (depending upon number of registrations)
• Projector
• White board with marker
• Mike