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Mobile Monday Beijing - Mobile Entrepreneurship in China

slimpixi — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:47:08 +0300

It was a great turnout. Many friendly faces and everyone avidly interested in the discussion pannel and the panelists themselves:

Weihan Liu from Nokia Ventures was in the hot spot and being asked many questions about the type of investments in mobile that Nokia are making. Greg Shea from RIM commeted on the app strategy and what investors are looking for. Roger Peng told great stories about aquisitions and law in China for mergers. Mr Zhang served as an example of a startup in China targeting 3G customers with a video advertising platform.

Moderated by Benjamin from Mobile Monday here's some qotes to the best of my abilities:

GENERAL VIEW ON MOBILE

Weihan Lu [Nokia]: Great to be in the mobile business. Dataplans are coming down. I can only encourage the entire value chain to see good investment opportunities.

Zhang: Great time gone far and beyond communication device. Its a mini computer. How to do and what value you can bring. 600Million people in China-huge hidden market.

Greg Shea [RIM]: Netscape changed computing and connected ready users to internet. That's where we are now [in mobile]. RIM will have a fund next year [to fund applications].

Benjamin [MM]: What's the exit plan?

Rodger: Small boom happening now We see more activity. Unicom contracts with Apple. People are looking for companies in the growth stage. That's a lof activity now.

Benjamin: What's hot in Mobile today?

Weihan Liu: Gprs increase - companies doing games - sns - are shor term. Ecommerce, local content tier 1 China. Tao Bao comes to mobile. Payment will change.

Zhang: Take video out - do you need 3G? Its for video. It will take time for video app that users like to use enhanced advertising solutions over video. Lin up content to users plus advertising will really be significant and profitable in few years.

Benjamin: Facebook application company plus iphone is the talk and investment in silicon valley. Are people really making money in mobile?

Greg Shea: Converged eco system - divice plus content plus application-hats off to iphone with their own app world. quality apps are the best. Enabling major carriers to improve their application worlds. RIM has never seen operators as dumb pipes. How to make ongoing experience is optimized different stores with different business models. Enabling the carrier and application developers to make money. You will see a shake out. You'll see confederations mergers. Gamming, SNS and video rendering.

Benjamin: What applications are interesting for you Weihan [to invest in]?

Weihan Liu: Have bandwidth environment. 1/4th is games. What is unique about [the Apple] app store?

Rodger: Still lot of growth. 10's of million of us see ecommerce is another target on the phone.

Benjamin: Mobile ecommerce market is way bigger in Japan than games...

Zhang: 3G? Must be compelling apps more powerful cpu's, etc. More bandwidth intensive apps that mimic TV and this will drive demand [for 3G].

Greg Shea: Not like business will be delivered when 3G comes. Focus on your effectiveness on the 2G cuz then you will be greater on 3G.

Weihan Liu: 3G wont take off in China until you have flat rate.

Benjamin: Where is the best place to be in the value chain? What's the good position with more opportunities?

Greg Shea: Apps, games, and ecommerce. mobile funding for ecommerce. People with clean effective efficient experience. If ou're from the west make sure you have a good Chinese partner because there will be areas that are grey. That is where the opportunities are.

Rodger: Follow the crowd until something happens. Set up business until someone tells you you cant do it.

Greg Shea: Asia listing in Shanghai indicate..;.unless something doesnt go sidways...you'll see listing of western companies in this country.

Weihan Liu: Most attractive apps? Application services content space. Entertainment. Gaming. Ecommerce. What is your edge? special secret sauce? What's the difference from the big players?

Anina.net to Greg Shea: Why is the lowest priced appliction in the app store of blackberry 2.99, when the iphone and nokia base price is at 99cent?

Greg Shea: It's the blackberry brand position: more advanced users on blackberry. Stronger, more loyal connections to developers. We make the developer make money, and the carrier make money, and therefor everyone is financially stronger.

Launching Anina Backstage News Application in the Ovi Store

slimpixi — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:03:27 +0300

It is a glorious day today, sun is shining and I'm on the front page of the Nokia Ovi store! Get up and get your phones out and support me with some comments and ranking for my Backstage Fashion Model Application. Download it and follow along with me on my next adventures! I'm off to China for a job on Saturday so stay tuned to your mobiles for some backstage action. No idea what will happen--off the plane and into action! Hopefully there will be wifi along the way in Narita Airport and Detroit (doubtful).

Entering an app in the Ovi store is no small feat--I have to say it's not the easiest of the 3 platforms out there. However, considering the amount of Nokia users out there, it is certainly the largest. I am very grateful to my friends Robin and Flash at mippin, without whom I would never have gotten approved (so many settings in that store! To be expected since there are so many devices in so many countries). I'm very excited to see what this will do for me in terms of visibility, I'm not sure how many women there are in Ovi. Lets wait and see! So far it's favorable reviews:

Features I really like about the Ovi Store: Website online is excellent, clear and clean. The ability to send sms to your friends to download the application sure beats all the other platforms. The mobile site is also in classic excellence for mobile devices. Very clear, very good search and very easy to navigate to.

TRANSFORMATION AGE -- PBS TV DOCUMENTARY ON 360FASHION AIRING ACCROSS USA NOW

slimpixi — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:56:29 +0300

YOU CAN WATCH THE 360FASHION SEGMENT HERE! Tremendous databases, wireless communications and the miniaturization of electronics provide opportunities to make major changes in the way people work and live. The Transformation Age explores the office, the marketplace, media, finances and our digital lives as they take new forms and remove the barriers of time, distance, wealth, education and even age. THE OFFICE The way an office looks and operates has changed dramatically in the past 50 years, and information technology - for better or for worse - has made a lot of those changes possible. Offices contain people who oversee or design products and services, market them and handle finances. I.T. continues to reduce the role of people in some of these functions while simultaneously reducing the importance of location. Anina Trepte is a high tech globe-trotting fashion model who practically runs her 360 Fashion company and web site with her cell phones. BROADCAST TIMES ON PBS ARE HERE

LIVE WEBCAST --ANINA DRESS UP -- AMSTERDAM FASHION WEEK

slimpixi — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:09:21 +0200

Club of Amsterdam Season Event.

the future of Fashion
         Lifestyle & Technology

         LIVE WEBCAST

Thursday, January 31, 2008
         Conference: 19:00-21:15

Connect to the Internet          http://www.webcastingstudio.eu/          on this date and time you will see a free interactive webcast of the          event.

For conference information,          please visit:
         http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=725

Charlotte Smith from 360Fashion Public Relations will be giving my speech, and %

LE WEB 3

slimpixi — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:07:57 +0300

If you dont know LEWEB3, then you are really missing out. It's one of the best events in Paris, besides the fashion week...

XmediaLab Conference Speech -- 360Fashion Real Time Reporting

slimpixi — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:04:13 +0300

This week i am have been invited to present 360Fashion and be a mentor at the Nokia sponsored, XmediaLab. 360Fashion reporters are creating a live reportage on the XmediaLab Singapore conference. anina.net commands a team of 5 local reporters together with three, 360Fashion pro's who are creating videos, photos, live feedback articles directly from within the event. Working with the University of Technology students and local pro bloggers, 360Fashion brings with the N95 a real-time coverage of the events and the people behind XmediaLab. Using Nokia widsets, everyone can follow along with the XmediaLab events right in the palm of their hand. Thank you to Nokia Asia for loaning us the N95 devices so that my team and i could bring this great coverage from the Digital Art and Media worlds. Please join us and leave some comments on the blog, download the widset. There's a lot of amazing people speaking here today! www.xmedialab.typepad.com

NEW YORK FASHION WEEK SAYS NO TO UNPROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT -- EXCEPTIONTION: 360FASHION

slimpixi — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:05:52 +0300

IMG WORLD banned from the catwalks this year all "unprofessional equipment". their concern is the quality. i discussed this issue with IMG WORLD online media head, and he said simply [i paraphrased it as best i could], "fashion is about beauty. fashion is about quality. designers spend 100,000 and more on presenting their collections during the fashion week. what is the point of spending so much money, if the results will be a blurry, fuzzy, video online? this does not serve the designers, and it does not serve the the consumers, and it serves no purpose. you have to choose the right tool for the right situation, and currently cellular technology and consumer electronics products do not produce high enough quality results for the fashion industry."

while i would in one regard totally agree with him, from a personal perspective i would have to agree with robert cringely when we spoke during my PBS interview (they are making a documentary on me during the fashion week). if no one pushes the envelope--how will the technology evolve? if i don't make tests, try out new things, make experiments live, then how will the technology get better.

here you can see the interview with top photographer, randy brooke, where i asked him why with my n93 did i get pixelation and color variation on the catwalk. you can see here a video i uploaded with my n93 (still the superior device in my opinion for fashion quality video) and a test device n95 loaned to me by nokia. the light meter in the n95 is MUCH WORSE, (along with other featured they have eliminated from the video editing software). the video is completely washed out in the n95 video of the same show.

360Fashion Reporting on NOKIA WORLD

slimpixi — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:20:33 +0200

360Fashion.net

net econnomie -- when are we going to have skype on the phone?

VIDEO 2

8800 CHOCOLATE LEATHER CASE

VIDEO 3

JEAN PAOLO -- MIT

VIDEO 4

if you have enjoyed our programming and would like to see more, please contact us for additional opportunities.

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360FASHION -- the interconnectivity of the human spirit

slimpixi — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:50:01 +0300

360Fashion.anina.net is at the crossroads between Fashion and Technology, a 360 degree overview of what is happening in the world of fashion, as observed by professionals using the latest cellular and web 2.0 technologies. 360Fashion is about the interconnectivity of the human spirit. With 360Fashion we bring together different voices from all corners of the fashion world from models, to photographers, to journalists, to scouts, to designers.

Together, we give you insight into their daily lives, multiple perspectives of the fashion industry, images and words of what they are passionate about, and a view the ties together their emotions, thoughts, and actions.

360Fashion sprung, like Athena, from the creative mind of Anina, a "new kind of supermodel". Infused by her enthusiasm to share her passions, and buoyed by the combined excitement of all involved, 360Fashion has grown beyond her creator into something special and well recognized in the world.

Browse the 360Fashion world. Interact with everyone and leave a trail of comments to let others know what you think of what you read and see. While 360Fashion might be created from the mobile perspective of the fashion professionals within the industry, the interconnectivty in the conversation is only complete if you participate.

written by CHARLIE SCHICK, Father of the Lifeblog Project

360Fashion is open to all buisness opportunities. If you have any questions please email: info@anina.net

ANINA.NET -- s60 THEMES

slimpixi — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:25:49 +0300

This is one of my themes that i made together with mangothemes.com for s60 phones.

They make the best s60 themes technically. They just needed higher quality photos, so i called the photographer who booked me for every job that he shot while i was in greece, and asked him if i could use his photos in my theme. He said yes! And i can not wait to show him!