Rudy De Waele

Last weeks have been really busy; besides initiating Mobile Monday Barcelona recently, I moved with Gotomedia to new offices in the famous Estació de França train station in Barcelona. Gotomedia, led by Kelly Goto, will be partnering with research partners Barcelona Media, which has ties to Pompeu Fabra University to engage in global mobile research. Check also the gotomobile blog to stay updated on results and mobile web issues.

I started helping Russell Buckley with business development for AdMob in Spain and other EU countries. It has been great working with him and learn more on mobile advertising and the mobile web in general. AdMob, launched in January this year by Omar Hamoui, passed last weekend a staggering 50 million ad views

The other exciting project I started working on recently is MyStrands (also known as MusicStrands). They just launched a new project that touches probably all sectors I worked in before and of which (to me) the combination has tons of opportunities for the future… Music, Mobile, Internet and … (the next part I will explain soon here). You can read part of the story how we got to eachother here, just know that this article was written completely independent before I got in touch with MyStrands people.

This month I received the very first $500 “Host of the Month” award of the Carnival of the Mobilists, sponsored by Khosla Ventures for my hosting of the Carnival of the Mobilist 33 at m-trends.org in June.

Check out the latest Carnival edition in Carnival of the Mobilists 38 hosted by Judy Breck at Smart Mobs.