MoMoCo Members

Thanks to those who came out last night, and to our presenters StormPeak Innovations and EffectiveUI. For those of you that could not make it out, we look forward to seeing you at the next meeting.

To recap, StormPeak Innovations discussed their incubator, the upcoming summer session, and had special guests from their last session, MobileXware (who they met at MoMoCo in the fall). I would encourage you to take a look at their program, especially if you have a boot-strapped company today and are looking for help to bring it to the next level. You can learn more at www.stormpeakinnovations.com.

Juan Sanchez from EffectiveUI did a great job of walking us through a case study, challenges, and lessons learned when working on the mobile user interface for applications and services. I think many walked away with an appreciation for the difficulty and thought process you need to go through when designing the best possible interaction with a customer and not just creating a feature rich platform. I think the best statement of the night was from Juan that many times “Design supersedes functionality”. Juan has graciously offered to let us post his presentation on our site, which we will make available shortly. If you are building an application and have UI questions the EffectiveUI team has and is doing some extremely cool stuff on many devices, including the new iPad.

Our next meeting will be on May 17^th, and the topic will be Mobile Social Networking. We have Brightkite, SHUB.me, and Zerista presenting three different approaches that address different areas of the market. This is a hot topic these days with many wondering how their applications and services should interact with their social customers. Should be a great event and we hope to see you there.

Finally, we will soon send a survey to you all investigating the possibility of alternating meetings with Denver every other month, or even adding another meeting if it made sense. We are really trying to build a solid community that you all can leverage and we do not want to dilute what has already been created, so I ask you all to answer honestly so we can be sure to do what is best for the collective mobile technology community in Denver and Boulder alike.

Cheers!

Jason Stout

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