Artificial ignorance

I’m glad to announce a beta version of the Foursquare app for Windows phones – WinMoSquare.

Prerequisites

The app is only available for touch screen Windows phones today. The .NET Compact Framework v3.5 is a pre-requisite for you to be able to run the application on the phone. You’d also need a phone that runs either Windows Mobile 6.1 or a Windows Mobile 6.5.

Get me them goods

You can get the goods by emailing admin@touchality.com or submitting your email address in this webform: http://touchality.com/WinMoSquare/

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As you may know, I recently joined the Windows Phone team. As the team prepares for 6.5 and our ongoing marketing plans, our team is looking to fill six positions with high caliber entrepreneurial marketing professionals who want to help blaze the trail for Microsoft in connecting mobile customers with cool apps. These positions offer a range of opportunities and include shaping the Marketplace user experience, executing strategic on device marketing and promotional initiatives, building high impact business and channel partnerships, driving financial returns, and cultivating ISV and mobile operator partner satisfaction.  These positions are located in either Palo Alto, CA or in Redmond as indicated. 

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After four and a half years as in the field organization of Microsoft an Evangelist, I’ve decided to move jobs within the company. I’ll be moving to the Windows Mobile team as a Product Manager, helping shape the application development experience for our mobile platform among the startup and student audiences around the world. My job will be to participate (or help people participate)  in as many events as possible and expose people to the possibilities on these devices.

Why now?

While BizSpark has been a roaring success, and I could do broad marketing and evangelism for as long as I live, for the last couple of years I have been wanting to move back to focus more on a single product. BizSpark served as the platform for me to spread my wings and really lead a program for the US subsidiary, and I learned a lot along the way. In fact, if it weren’t for the success that we’d seen there, my good friend Loke Uei Tan would not have tapped me on the shoulder and referred me to the job.

It should be no surprise that mobile is a very hot area. My good friend, Kedric Van de Carr (now with Smaato), who is very involved in the mobile community in the Valley, has been telling me for months about how hot the mobile industry is and how it’s going to grow. The numbers don’t lie. Continue reading

Right before the launch of BizSpark, I had a chance to have a chat with Bhaskar Roy and Ramu Sankara, co-founders of Qik. Qik is an application for mobile devices that lets you stream video directly from your phone to the internet.

Ramu and Bhaskar go on to talk about how Qik came about, their experience as entrepreneurs and the work Qik and Microsoft have done together.

Back in June 2008, Qik announced support for Windows Mobile and they now support over 40 Windows Mobile devices. Qik was recently nominated for a Crunchie in the category of the "Best Mobile Startup".

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