Developer Conferences in India

I will be traveling to India this week to speak at two developer conferences: Mobile Developer Conference on Dec 1, 2012 at Chennai and Java Developer Conference on Dec 8, 2012 at Bangalore. Can't wait to be in India and meet the developer and startup community there! 

NCDevCon 2012

Howdy!

I was at NCDevCon from Sept 29-30, 2012, Raleigh and got to taste the "southern hospitality". Great event and great gathering of like minded individuals.

NCDevCon has been around for about four years now and boy have they grown! This years' conference had parallel tracks for mobile, coldfusion, tools/techniques, and hands-on workshops.

I had the opportunity to present on mobile payments this year. Check out my slides and the video.

Have fun!
Pragati

Mobile & Commerce

When people say "mobile is just another channel for e-commerce", I tend to disagree. Mobile is not just another channel, it is a channel which opens up interesting opportunities and use cases that have never been imagined before. Sure, mobile commerce brings commerce activities to mobile devices. But what it also brings is the uncanny opportunity to use local, personal, and ubiquity aspects of a mobile device. In this post, let's talk about mobile devices.

Let's begin with the basics. What are some of the defining aspects of mobile? First, our mobile devices like cellphones, tablets, iPods etc, are quite personal. We have a whole bunch of personal information on cell phone. Second, our mobile devices are with us most of the time (if not all the time). So our mobile devices are aware of where we are at a given moment. They are also aware of which places we frequent. Third, with smartphones of today, we can do most of the activities that a few years ago required us to go back to our desks and fire up our computers.

So mobile is personal, ubiquitous, and powerful. In other words, with mobile we can do most of our things anywhere and anytime.