Mobius 2004 USA ( Möbius 2004 ) - list of participants
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Mobius is an invite-only mobility-related conference where Microsoft is inviting people related to online publication of information about mobile devices (like cell phones and PDAs). Microsoft covers also costs of traveling and lodging and gives a bag full of gadgets as a gift. Some participants can opt out from it however, and they can pay for themselves (from the list below only Peter Rojas from Engadget.com did it). Mostly these people are just bloggers, who have a day job apart from their website, but among these people there are also professional journalists and publishers. The difference between the two categories - i.e. bloggers and professionals - is however sometimes a bit vague.
The main manager responsible for Mobius conference is Jason Gordon from Windows Mobile division of Microsoft. Jason, together with some other managers from Microsoft, is picking the people to be invited to Mobius conference. We have been chatting with Jason both in cyberspace and by phone and from these conversations our understanding is, that web traffic (number of visitors of given website) is not primary criterium of selection of participants for the Microsoft´s Mobius conference. In other words some websites with small (smaller than msmobiles.com) or tiny web traffic are also being invited because obviously some other criteria are at play. We wouldn´t like to dwell on it what exactly these critera are. For now please note: apparently geographical location played some role in the selection process, so we outline it in this list too.
Below we present a list of participants in Mobius 2004 USA, information about their web sites and clickable links to their reports from this conference. This list is by no means complete and if you would notice some ommisions feel free to contact us (you may use either web form or e-mail address mentioned therein).
The list follows (sorted by Alexa web traffic ranking - state: early December 2004, for comparison´s sake: Alexa traffic for msmobiles.com was then: 25464 and would be 12 on the list):
Paul Matt
web site: threegmobile.net, Alexa ranking: 3478, Google rank: 5.
Location: China.
Peter Rojas
web site: Engadget.com, Alexa ranking: 4972, Google rank: 8.
Location: USA.
Phillip Torrone
web site: Engadget.com, Alexa ranking: 4972, Google rank: 8.
Location: USA.
Eric Levine
web site: Engadget.com, Alexa ranking: 4972, Google rank: 8.
Location: USA.
Howard Chui
web site: Howard Forums, Alexa ranking: 6135, Google rank: 5.
Location: Canada.
Rich Brome
web site: Phone Scoop, Alexa ranking: 6898, Google rank: 6.
Location: USA.
Marcus Adolphson
web site: treocentral, Alexa ranking: 14620, Google rank: 6.
Location: USA.
Matt Miller
web site: Geek.com, Alexa ranking: 16735, Google rank: 7.
Location: USA.
Jorgen Sundgot
web site: InfoSyncWorld, Alexa ranking: 18137, Google rank: 7.
Location: Norway (non-EU Europe).
Jason Dunn
web site: Pocket PC Thoughts, Alexa ranking: 20019, Google rank: 7.
Location: Canada.
Andy Sjostrom
web site: Pocket PC Thoughts, Alexa ranking: 20019, Google rank: 7.
Location: EU.
Chris Leckness
web site: Aximsite, Alexa ranking: : 25651, Google rank: 6.
Location: USA.
Rafe Blendford
web site: AllAbouSymbian.com, Alexa ranking: 26398, Google rank: 7.
Location: EU.
Ryan Kairier
web site: PalmInfoCenter, Alexa ranking: 26596, Google rank: 6.
Location: USA.
Paul O´Brien
web site: Modaco, Alexa ranking: 26911, Google rank: 6.
Location: EU.
Lisa Gade
web site: PDA buyer´s guide, Alexa ranking: 27161, Google rank: 6.
Location: USA.
Hal Goldstein
web site: PocketPCMag.com, Alexa ranking: 27874, Google rank: 7.
Location: USA.
Julie Strietelmeier
web site: The Gadgeteer, Alexa ranking: 33910, Google rank: 6.
Location: USA.
Arne Hess
web site: PPCW.net, Alexa ranking: 78042, Google rank: 6.
Location: EU.
Chee Wee Lee
web site: ppcsg.com, Alexa ranking: 118921, Google rank: 6.
Location: Singapore.
Jenneth Orantia
web site: personal weblog, Alexa ranking: 730713, Google rank: 5.
Location: Australia.
Wes Salmon
web site: www.wessalmon.com, Alexa ranking: 1175721, Google rank: 5.
Location: USA.
Geographical distribution: USA = 11, EU = 4, Canada = 2, Norway = 1, Australia = 1, Singapore = 1, China = 1.
Remember: if you would notice some ommisions feel free to contact us (you may use either web form or e-mail address mentioned therein).
