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José Valles discusses life at BlueVia

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:00:07 +0000

Continuing our series on BlueVia, we’re back with José Valles, BlueVia’s top man. In this segment, I asked him what it’s like working at BlueVia.

For more information on BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer programme, please visit www.bluevia.com.

Founder of Twitea.me, Arturo Garrido, discusses BlueVia

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:10:51 +0000

In the first of our BlueVia Introduction series (kindly supported by BlueVia), we meet Arturo Garrido, the founder of Twitea.me — a mobile developer who’s already heavily using BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer programme.

Arturo’s service is a Twitter-by-SMS service for Mexico where there’s a high proliferation of feature phones — but also high demand for services such as Twitter. Arturo’s service enables consumers to use Twitter via SMS. All well and good. The problem for him used to be the business model. Sending and receiving SMS used to cost him a lot of money and Arturo used to have to support the service with advertising (or, in some cases, pay for it himself). That’s until Telefonica’s BlueVia came along and changed his world for the better.

Have a watch of the video to find out more. In particular, take note of his comments around the BlueVia business model — Arturo is now generating revenue instead of losing it! Plus he’s got carrier-class reliability and the capability to launch into lots of other countries using the same BlueVia API.

For more information on BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer programme, please visit www.bluevia.com.

Episode 51: Araaf Razab‐Sekh of RSIC

Ewan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:34:19 +0000

I was delighted to catch Araaf Razab‐Sekh, General Manager at RSIC. They’re a Netherlands based mobile developer specialising in BlackBerry. Araaf took some time to tell me about their really smart forms-based services that they’re deploying for a huge array of organisations, from municipal authorities to large enterprise customers. Have a watch!

Episode 50: Gavin May of Sage

Ewan — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:56:12 +0000

If you’re hunting for an opportunity to work at the thicker, more valuable business end of the mobile industry, I strongly recommend you take a bit of time out and look at what financial experts Sage are up to. They’re in the process of developing a burgeoning ecosystem for developers — and mobile features heavily in their plans. Business Development Director, Gavin May, was at the EMEA BlackBerry Alliance Summit the other week — have a watch and see what you think. If you need an introduction, let me know.

Episode 15: Part two with Ed Lea, the iPhone Developer interview

Ewan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:05:34 +0000

If you missed the first part of Ed Lea’s interview, catch it here.

In today’s episode, we find out more about Ed’s MMS application, he discusses his views on in-app mobile advertising (“not something I want to do at the moment”) and describes how he’s crafted a team of experts to work with him on his projects.

I reckon I’ve got about 2 more episodes of footage from our interview still to edit so standby for those soon.

Episode 14: Ed Lea, Europe’s #1 independent iPhone Developer

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:03:49 +0000

It was an absolute pleasure to sit down for an hour with iPhone developer extraordinaire, Ed Lea. I dropped him an email on the off chance that he’d be available to pop by One Alfred Place for a bit of filming. He’s usually knee deep in code and, as one of Europe’s leading (and most successful) independent iPhone developers, he’s in huge, huge, huge demand.

This is what Mobile Developer TV is all about. Sitting down with uber-smart people and capturing them talking, informally, directly, honestly, about their experiences.

We filmed for about an hour and more or less all of it is gold dust.

If you’re involved in iPhone development — or indeed, any mobile development, seriously take a few minutes aside to sit and watch Ed talk about his experiences.

In this episode, we get introduced to Ed, a bit of background — then we find out about his initial experiences with his first few applications.

Episode 13: A walkabout and demo at Funambol

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:37:28 +0000

I’ve been watching Fumambol, the open source ‘MobileWe for Billions of mobile phones’, for quite a while. I’m always one of the first to try out their new services — Indeed I think I was one of the first to download their Android Sync app. So I was delighted to get the invitation to pop by Funambol’s offices to bring you a tour of their Silicon Valley HQ and a demo of their all new and simply gorgeous open source MobileWe portal.

What a lot of people might now know is that you can integrate Funambol’s open source sync solutions into your products and services very easily. So for example, if you’ve developed an application to track a series of relevant dates (e.g. TV Show times), you can have your app sync with your user’s calendar automatically. You don’t need to worry about supporting a few billion handsets — Funambol have got that covered.

Take a bit of time and have a watch! You can find the Funambol Developer’s Forge packed with info here.