MyStrands Thu Dec 07 02:36:18 CET 2006 Thu Dec 07 02:36:18 CET 2006Thu Dec 07 02:36:18 CET 2006 partyStrands'Parisian debut at MoMoParis has been a great night. Along with a short presentation and brief demo of partyStrands LIVE combined with other presentations about the advances in mobility by key speakers from Microsoft, Voluntis and the CRNS. The French crowd about some 400+ people was impressed and fascinated by partyStrands' very visual mobile-online-digital music-interactivty interface.
Although we did not provide entertainment for the cocktail portion of the event for technical reasons, we had a demo station running where interested parties came and learned about partyStrands' interactive entertainment service for the first time. This crowd got a first taste of this full and eyecatching interactive entertainment service and they learned to text a message and join the party or to send a text. A question we heard asked several times was, "Is partyStrands in Paris and/or the rest of France? Do you want to be?"

A very big thanks to MoMoParis for their invitation and a very happy 1st anniversary. Perhaps partyStrands can host the entertainment in future events at MoMoParis and continue its relationship with this great group of people. Definitely a promising stop on the partyStrands movement into Europe.

Tonight was the first night the mobile portal m.partyStrands.com was used as a messaging mechanism on the mobile browser. So the attendees had two ways of sending messages via handset.

Aside from visiting the partyStrands.com/mmf page, there will soon we a lot of video content that was recorded at the event itself through Vodkase and Silicon TV. Vodkase videographers interviewed partyStranders Rudy de Waele and Jane Kwak. In addition, Silicon TV videotaped the presentations which will be available as a web broadcast.

Stay tuned for content updates.

]]>2006-12-07 01:58:24.975967 Mobile Monday France will have its 1st anniversary celebration within the venerable Mobile Office Tradeshow at the Hotel Lafayette Concorde (read more about the tradeshow and hotel in the overview) in Paris on December 6th, at 6:30pm.

For you francophones out there, here is the official invite:

The theme for this evening will be about understanding mobility. To start off the night, Laurent Delaporte, Vice President and Marketing Director of Microsoft France will speak on the evening's theme and how Microsoft facilitates the process of becoming mobile in companies.

Following, Pierre Leurent from Voluntis will discuss how mobile technology enables patient followup off-site.

Researcher Henri Issac from the CNRS will then talk about "the manager-on-the-go: an end to the concept of company?"

partyStrands will then close the presentations by doing a demo live as well as providing an interactive experience for the audience in this segment while eventually moving the music entertainment into the cocktail portion of the evening.

So be sure to join us for Mobile Monday France's first birthday celebration. A bash it will be with about 500 people with partyStrands live, a Brazilian band and dancers and a dj set in the heart of this grand city.

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