Long journey that ends with Indian Railway

Like a good traveller we started morning 4:28 am from Noida for Ajmer/Pushkar

Mobisy blog has a new home

We have moved this blog now to our domain server.
You can access it from now on at http://www.mobisy.com/blog/
Cheers,
L.

MobiTop powered, 160by2 mobile application Beta is now available!

We have rolled out Beta version of an exciting application powered by MobiTop platform with our colleagues from www.160by2.com

One can use 160by2 mobile application to send unlimited SMS all over India over data connection/wifi.This application uses mobile handset's SMS inbox, editor and allows user to reply, forward options for all his SMS.

With technical jargons, 160by2 application is best example of Mobile 2.0 services, where we have merged web service and native mobile service seamlessly and user gets best of Mobile and Web.

if you are avid user of www.160by2.com and accessing its wap site, you might already see a link for application download. Alternatively, you can request for Beta invitation to us at beta@mobisy.com and we will send you invite.

we will be happy to hear from you so let us know what you think about application. Please send your suggestions and issues to us at feedback@mobisy.com.

So if you have data connection and S60 3rd Edition phone...your SMS bill is all set to be zero. Enjoy!

Here is wishing you and your family a Happy Diwali!!!

Mobisy Survey report

Mobisy is currently trying to understand the dynamics of Mobile application users in true web 2.0 way by listening to it's consumers. One of such efforts resulted in a Survey held amongst urban youth. The results were very interesting indeed !
Check it out yourself !!

Mobisy Survey Report - Free Legal Forms

Couple of thoughts from me

In Mobisy we have a famous joke, "after a year of entrepreneurship, you start becoming philosopher". In the same vein, I recently posted my thoughts on couple of leading technology blogs in India. The Alootechie post is more related to technology or market trends while the pluggd.in post is more on emotional note. Let me know which one you liked better.
Cheers,

Mobisy's Spam Manager is now FREE!!!

Yes it is. After getting maximum number of downloads and collections in Mosh, and winning Nokia N95 phone in Nokia's Mosh Challenge, we have made Spam Manager for Nokia 3rd edition devices, absolutely free. No registrations, no activation keys, just install and go. Wanna download, Click Here

Unveiling ZMO...

Do give us a visit, if you are planning to be in Startup City tomorrow!!!

Belling a cat is out, teething an elephant is in:)

Wonder what happens, when around a dozen technocrats come together for an almost impossible task, yeah "teething an elephant". Well, I'm talking about our monthly event that happened last week. We had this event at our office and as usual, it was full of fun. Started with a team lunch, we had plenty to games like Dumb Charades, pinning a monkay's tail, pictography and ofcourse drawing elephants teeth. Filled with lots of laughter, and with a change from packed schedule, these monthly events@Mobisy are always cool.

Tadiyandamol

Once a month all us Mobisians try to have fun together ..
This month we decided to go for an adventure boy was it an experience .. May be Sandeep , Nihar and Pankaj have more to tell about it.
Tadiyandamol is a beautiful peak in Karnataka and camping on the summit is surely an experience no one should miss ..
Here are couple of my picks from the pictures we took there

MoMo Global Peer Awards 2008 Barcelona coverage @ PluGGd.in

Lalit's guest post at PluGGd.in, most vibrant blog for startups in India.



"It was an excellent vibrant event where all players in the Mobile ecosystem including operators, phone vendors , VC's and start-ups participated with equal enthusiasm and the event itself was planned immaculately ! I must congratulate Momo global community for arranging such a wonderful experience."

See full coverage "here".

We are @Barcelona

We will be attending "The Mobile World Congress" from 11 - 14 February, 2008 in Barcelona. Lets catch'up, if you happen to be there.

Mobisy nominated in the MobileMonday Global Peer Awards 2008

Celebration time and this time it is BIG !

We are proud to announce Mobisy has been nominated as a finalist for the Peer Awards 2008, the event organized by MobileMonday, the global open community of mobile professionals, at Barcelona in the context of Mobile World Congress.

Watch out this space we will post more details soon..

We are Nokia's MoshUp Challenge Winners!!!

Yes, thats absolutely right. People normally say that Monday is the worst day of the week, but for us, today's a 'wonderful' day. At 13:03 hours today, we received a mail from Forum Nokia Asia Pacific, that we have won their MoshUp Challenge. We had submitted our most popular application "Spam Manager" for this challenge, and it got collected and downloaded the maximum number of times.

And the winner takes home a brand new feature packed 'Nokia N95'. Cool, isn't it!!

Thanks to you all who liked our application and collected/downloaded it from Mosh. Without you, this feat was not possible.

Also, in the meantime, we have successfully launched "Spam Manager for S60 2nd Edition". Please give it a try, if you have a S60 2nd edition phone.

Knock Knock!!!

Last three months we went into a deep stealth mode, working overtime but energetically for our product "Mobitop". And now we are back again with a BANG!!!
First of all, let me wish you a very "Happy New Year", followed by some updates.
Starting this year, we moved to a new bigger office, as we are scaling up now. We do have open positions, and the details are here.

Now about the events that happened over last weekend(18-19,January,2008):
We presented "Mobitop" at two events, 'Proto, Chennai' and 'HeadStart, Bangalore!'. Both the events were full of energy, and we are happy to see such an ecosystem building in India at a vast pace. If you happened to be there, and saw our presentations, we would be glad to receive your valuable feedback. Also please feel free to send us your opinions/suggestions here regarding mobitop as well as the innovative applications that can be built on it.
We are waiting!!

An Unforgettable Monday

Yes, it was indeed an "Unforgettable" Monday, reason being that India emerged as Twenty20 champs. That was awesome!!!. We had one more reason to cheer about. No prizes for guessing....it was the "Mobitop Launch", the same day at MoMo.
To our surprise, we were received by an audience of 35-40 enthusiastic people, inspite of the Twenty20 Finals going on at the same time.Since our platform enables the developers to add features to their mobile application on the server and deploy on web(without re-flashing/installing it on mobile),we capitalized on that and added the "Latest Cricket Score" feature for that "Special Day":), just before the demo(in few seconds).
Watch out this space, as we will be uploading the video of the Mobitop/iContactBook demo soon....

PS: We missed the Twenty20 Finals, but got a chance to see the last 7 balls on the large screen, and that were the ones that mattered most:) Well Done,India.
Oh Boy!!!It was an action packed Monday.

'Mobitop Launch' around the corner...

Dear friends,
It's my pleasure to announce the launch of our much awaited platform, i.e. Mobitop.

“MobiTop, is a mobile phone application development platform with which application developers, device manufacturers and operators can easily develop and deploy new breed of applications with Web 2.0 features. Key challenges faced by today’s mobile application developers are, “Device incompatibilities” and “Ineffective application delivery platforms”. We @ Mobisy are trying to address these major issues by providing a platform to develop applications quickly in standard web technologies like AJAX and limiting the porting issues. Further, we are enabling Internet based deployment of applications, which provides security at the same time avoiding complicated and lengthy, signing procedures. We also provide native device access capabilities(like Call,SMS, Contacts), offline mode and many other key features to watch out for.”

As a first step, we will be giving a demo of our showcase applications on Mobitop in "Mobile Monday(Bangalore Chapter)" event, on 24th Sept,07. Find out more details about this MoMo event "here".
See you on Monday @ MoMo.

"Mobisy's Spam Manager" ROCKS!!

Well, last some days we were really excited to find out response to our first product, i.e. "Mobisy's Spam Manager". Every single morning we used to check our mails, for the number of downloads that happened last nite. It feels great to share with you all, that the response has been simply "awsome":). Till now,Spam Manager has been downloaded for more than 300 times, and that too only from "Handango".
If we sum up downloads from other sites, it can simply be doubled(i.e.600 downloads in just 3 weeks).

We also have uploaded "Spam Manager Ver 1.0 for S60 3rd Edition Devices" at following places:
1. "Nokia Software Market"
2. "MobiHand"

We got nice reviews, another reason to feel proud. We were also contacted by a reporter from 'Selular Magazine', Indonesia. It seems there's going to be an article on our "Spam Manager" in their October Edition.

Do go out, and try "Call and SMS Spam Manager for S60 3rd Edition" from Mobisy. I bet, its 'The Cheapest' and 'The Best'.

Mobisy's Call/Sms Spam Manager is Alive n Kickin!!!

We@ Mobisy are proud to annouce the release of our first application, "Spam Manager Ver 1.0 for S60 3rd Edition Devices". Its a nice application to keep spam callers/smsers at bay. Now stopping junk marketing calls and smses is in your own hands. Just add that annoying 'Number' in Spam Manager's Spam List.We will take care of the rest. Peace at last!!!

Lets download "Spam Manager(Trial Version)".

For more info, have a look "here".

Mobisy's Head Shoulder and Foot

I came across this extremely good blog today. It basically tells you how important it is for a start-up to find a Wise Head to question everything, a Broad shoulder to weep and generally to support you when you need, and a strong foot to kick you in the butt when you need it !!

I agree with almost everything mike says here. It matches quite well with my own experience. It got me thinking about who would be the head , shoulder and foot of Mobisy if we have one and turns out we already have those positions filled ..:-).

Chhavi and sometimes Bhupender act like our wise heads, they want us to cross check everything and assume nothing !! Also we have some nice advisers from the industry who help us keep our own head on the shoulder.
The shoulder job is more divided and is done by all of us from time to time. Obviously it helps that in addition to being co-founders of Mobisy we are firstly great friends of each other and that chemistry helps to pull each other up when things do not look as well as they should.
As far as foot is concerned, similar to mike, our respective spouses do that job extremely well. They will not let us fail or accept failure.