mixer* has been renamed banter after last nights lively session. Phil Hofmeyr, in his signature floral, lead what was possibly the most
intimate mashup* event in history.
First upwas Jon Moore, from the famed Guardian iPhone app, who expanded on some of
the thoughts from his talk at Ogilvy. And then Caroline Van Den Bergh from
Golden Gekko gave a perspective on Vodafone360 and a variety of other
platforms. The great contradiction came from Caroline Van Den Bergh who told us rule
101 is know your customer, but their most successful application was a bit
of fun with a customer in mind.The questions and retorts about how to deliver apps and
services following the talks led to the usual lively debate which we eventually had
to curtail in order to enjoy our luke-warm pizza.
We had stand ups from Joshua Rex, Jay Marathe
Iris Lapinski and David Wood. Even iKebab got it’s much-hyped moment on stage. Favourite ask was from
Iris Lapinski from CDI (Centre for Digital Inclusion) who is need of
developers to work with her charity. And just as
the evening was drawing to a close, in pranced Shed Simove, still in his
audition outfit (unless he dresses like that normally…), who gave an
inspired 60 sec pitch on Apparazzi – a cool crowd-sourced iphone paparazzi
app he is looking for a developer for.
