MoMo London Demo Night summary

Last night Ben presented at Mobile Monday London's demo night round the corner at IPC’s office behind the Tate Modern. Ben was presenting our mobile train ticketing solution, and it seemed to go down pretty well. Also there was a great roof terrace and free beer - almost enough to make me code a TouchWiz widget in Samsung's Innovation Quest widget competition!

Our slides from the night:

Here's a quick rundown of all of the presentations for those who couldn't attend:

Vopium

Nice voip solution, fully integrates with phonebook and routes calls through multiple different channels. Smartphone-only, but if it's seamless then it could work.

Peepr.TV

Webcam hosting service, allowing streaming to mobile. Can be adapted for premium webcams as well; doesn't work on my SonyEricsson K660i.

0870.me

Finally, an *open* API for remapping 0870 phone numbers to cheaper alternatives.

Photofit

Fun iPhone app which lets you mix up the faces of your friends. Normally used by people in the pub; possible synergies with the Met.

Total Hotspots

Find wifi hotspots from your iPhone. Hopefully it will be possible for mass-market phones too at some point.

Audioboo

Audio blogging app for iPhone. I don't have an iPhone, but apparently Brian Clough does.

Artilium

Presented an easy-to-integrate LBS platform

Proxama

Demonstrated an NFC wallet application for the Nokia 6212 (has any network picked this phone up?). Could also probably work on the Nokia 6131NFC. Trialled with Vodafone last year; mass uptake by 2013? Read Masabi's thoughts on NFC here.

Ookl

A platform for interactive learning at museums, using mobile phones. Go try it at Kew Gardens or the National Maritime Museum.

Singtones

I really need to try Singtones, as apparently it can correct your Karaoke singing.

Corebridge

Corebridge have an integrated mobile/web CRM solution. Unfortunately their presentation was let down by the lack of signal in the building.

Spoonfed

A neat crowd-sourced location-based recommendations site for venues and events.

Masabi

We presented about selling train tickets on mobile using our pocket ticket machine. Read more here. Some screenshots of the app we actually demo’d:

Unfortunately many of the presentations were let down by a lack of mobile connectivity at the venue. Slightly surprising for a corporate building in central London; perhaps they should get some femto-cells in there? For the app developers, SMS failover has its uses!

I'm normally more self-effacing than this, but it wasn’t me presenting and it was nice to get some really positive feedback from our industry peers:

@edent: “Masabi get it right - open standard & works on low end phones. There's a world outside of iPhone #MoMoLondon”

@fj: “masabi I love you, marry me. You get mobile. #momolondon”

@kaihendry: “Enjoying the Masabi presentation of buying rail tickets from the mobile. Now will it work on my Android G1? On the Web? :) #momolondon”

@gslondon: “Masabi demo of their rail ticket purchase system was impressive”

Jag from O2: “This was the best demo of the lot - and they were all very good I have to say, but this one really stood out in terms of being very well thought out and executed.”

Thanks, everyone!