Mobup in Sun headquarters

Being in Sun is probably something like being near the gotha of Java, you can thus imagine our happiness when we were invited to join the guys from the Java Mobile Developers Forum this morning for a day packed with great presentations (albeit I was forced to leave the seminar just after lunch, damn).
Note: I’ll have to carefully follow the operations behind the launch of Handango Italy: its 19 yrs old country manager is really unusual fir this country but looks really prepared.

We showcased Mobup; well probably I’d say I just introduced the philosophy behind Mobup while Vincenzo took the listeners down to the source code for the rest of the speech. But we talked to programmers and programmers’ stuff was their bread.

I’d really like to thank Edoardo Schepis from SUN/JMDF for the opportunity and the friendly atmosphere we found (mad props go to Stefano Sanna, probably the greatest of our new – shall I say – friends)

While waiting for Edoardo’s photos you can take a look at some of the shots we mobupped at the beginning of the seminar.”

Mobup 0.2 out on Monday

We’ll deliver on Monday the newsest version of Mobup, the 0.2

We’ve nearly reprogrammed the whole application in order to maximize compatibility on Nokia s60 devices which should be now fully supported(our beta testers team is now working on granularly verifying it).

While rewriting the code we’ve also spent some time optimizing it and the resulted code is now less then 38KB in size. Yes madam the whole moup application won’t eat your device internal memory while managing

  • Photo shooting
  • Title, descriptions and tags
  • Lazy user (c) tagging system (Mobup will download the 10 most popular tags from your Flickr account) post the photo in your Flickr sets
  • Publish the whole thing on your own blog

We’ve also blown away messsages screen and have them substitute with faster and “AJAX style” on screen messaging system.

Hope you’ll spend some time giving it a try.

Latest on Mobup

In the next weeks we’ll deliver a series of speeches on the development of Mobup providing an analysis of both the user experience and the tecnical aspects of the application: a load of code will be displaied and explained by Vincenzo Lembo, the leading programmer of the Mobup project while I’ll take care of the delivering of high quality insights on Flickr, moblogging and the user experience behind Mobup.

The first event is going to be held on the 12th of January starting 6.30pm at the Mac@work shop in Milan (all the details could be found on the Java User Group site which has organized the event)

As an interesting side note I’ve been interviewed by Richard Giles for a sidebar to be included in his forthcoming book How to Use Flickr: The Digital Photography Revolution where I had a chance to talk a bit about Mobup; there’s a companion Flickr group which is definetely worth a look.