Sorry, Blogworld Expo organizers (Rick, Dan, Deb, Chuck, Hadji and Chris) it was nothing targeted to you or the conference saying you did a bad job trying to diversity the event or that I felt unconformable. Rick and I talked and had a brief conversation about how he has tried in the past two years to add more diversity to Blogworld and a few other options for next years event. But still that doesn’t mean there wasn’t no diversity at the event. have three more speaking events and I’m done for a long time. waynesutton. photo by: amanichannel. MORE >>

Tomi Ahonen, my friend and esteemed colleague, calls ForumOxford THE thought leadership event of the year. From Tomi (who chairs the event), to Chetan Sharma (best known for wireless data and research that consistently sets the bar), to Ajit Jaokar , long-time author and advisor to the mobile industry, the event brings together professionals and practitioners sincerely interested in asking questions and identifying the trends. Presentation: How to develop creative and effective SMS-based mobile games. Tags: Events Mobile Content Mobile Research Register here. MORE >>

Challenge: Today, geo-location has gained fantastic momentum, and the number of applications for the technology and data developed in the company over the last 10 years became nearly infinite, almost overnight. More important, bright minds elsewhere will certainly come up with applications that are far more interesting an innovative than those we thought of so far. Mobile Applications Augmented Reality, Geo-location, iphone. What about SMS and voice apps which have a far greater addressable market and potential for ubiquitous usage? Killer Applications of Geo-Data. MORE >>

During the same week that SMS officially turned 18, we read a provocative post suggesting that SMS may not be around to celebrate its 19th year thanks to Apple’s newly-introduced iMessage. Shortly after that, MG Siegler over at Techcruch claimed that iMessage will spell the end of SMS. Siegler writes: “As one of the core new features highlighted today in iOS 5, iMessages has one purpose: to kill SMS.&# (He defines SMS as “traditional carrier-controlled text messages.&# ) How will this happen? use SMS once a day). iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. MORE >>

Feed Rinse is a best of class RSS filtering application. ZapTXT also powers email, IM, and SMS alerts for sites like TheStreet.com. The RSS remixing application makes it easy to create simple filters. And dont look past Rasasa for RSS to SMS, IM, email. Pipes is not your run of the mill filtering application. It can filter standalone XML and CSV files, translate feeds, search feeds based on location and put it on a map, let you use standalone web services applications, change titles and filter descriptions and so many more things. ReadWriteWeb. Last100. MORE >>