MovilForum 2009, 1st day
I’m back, finaly I didn’t write from Madrid, you will know why later… ;) MovilForum has been great, I have met many interesting people who have very good running projects . I’ve also been testing HTC Magic and especially the Nokia N97, which I was eager to see it.
I have also been able to attend to a presentation about Nokia WRT Widgets and the Ovi Store.
The bus from Bilbao takes about four hours, and the first thing that I feel in Madrid is a tremendous heat (36 º C in the shade). I go to the Round Communications station by subway (¡Ironically there is no coverage in the subway station! !) and I arrive at the “City of Telecommunications,” is a complex of buildings of futuristic design with double glazing and have a central space with a large pond and a fountain that throws water to about 30 meters, all very green and wooded, with ducks! Here you have a panoramic shot that I get:
I enter in the building and after the check-in I meet with Open Movilforum frineds, who have the stand there. The venue is not too big but there are many exhibitors, mainly from mobile terminals and logistics services and fleets control.
I plug the laptop, in this case a good NETBOOK the Asus 1000HE, maybe one day I will post about it, it’s awesome with its 9 hours and a half of real autonomy, and the demos start …
PyNoki and NiiMe
The main demo that I went to present was PyNoki, it uses Open Movilforum API’s from Movistar to be able to locate people and to establish automatically 3G connections through an SMS. Surprisingly NiiMe attracts more attention, it might be because is more attractive to use the accelerometers to drive a car or navigate through Google Earth . The afternoon was very entertaining :)
At 7 pm I went to the hostel, a hostel for bloggers (¡¿?!) that Open Movilforum reserved for me, It was great for the price that have (26 €!) . It has a single bed, all furniture is new, the bathroom in the room is very clean and new, and especially it has a very well placed desktop with network cable included. The hostel is Hostal Martín . Highly recommended!
I was hoping to keep writing the blog that night, but Ildefonso Open Movilforum invited me out to be with a group that was in the Dakar Madrid making a presentation about Second Life by Wilhelm Lappe . I did more informal demos about NiiMe for those who were there, while taking some beer. We spent a good time :)
A day and a night with very good atmosphere, but there are many interesting things to tell that occurred on the second day of Movilforum 2009.
(To be continued ..)
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