Mobup on tour: first speech

Yesterday we were hosted by the wonderful people at the Milan Java User Group: the seminar room at the Mac shop was really crowded and I was pleased to see a couple of known faces among the public.

Our slides (available online) on the strategy, user experience and technical aspects on Mobup raised a lot of interest (we mobupped some photos while speaking), it’s always cool speaking to smart programmers who make smart questions and suggestion.

We’ve also been so lucky to be invited in another couple of Italian Java events (one of those is really HUGE), more on this in the time coming.

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.