GSMA showcases gypsii as one of their top participants at MWC Barcelona, last February 2010. GyPSii has exhibited at Mobile World Congress for the past three years.
Excerpt: For 2010, GyPSii participated in the inaugural App Planet in Hall 7. App Planet is an ‘event within an event’ that pulls together all the key players in the apps market. More than 20,000 people visited App Planet during the course of the show … “We expected the first App Planet to be a success – it’s an emerging and topical area so we were pleased to see high quantities of visitors,” said Shane Lennon, SVP Strategy & Marketing. “We set up the stand to enable rapid pre-qualification of visitors to ensure our sales and marketing efforts were keenly focussed. “Our most valued visitors, however, were from pre-arranged meetings and subsequent follow-up meetings at the Congress itself, so straight ROI from quantity and quality was higher due to our pre-event efforts.
At the Congress, GyPSii complemented its exhibition presence by participating in two of the Congress Panel Sessions – GyPSii Executive Chairman Dan Harple taking part in the “Trusted Partners for the 2.0 Era” panel discussion, and Shane representing GyPSii on the panel for “App Store Futures: Prospects, Partnerships and Payoff”. “Our panel presence helped us with firming out thought leadership stances around mobile advertising and location-based applications, and took the GyPSii brand inside the Congress programme, reaching delegates that may not have had time to visit the App Planet,” said Shane.
For full version of the GSMA case study please click here.
This week gypsii rolled out the Bada version of it’s location based social networking application and Samsung promotes GyPSii as a Featured App.
Bada is the Java platform from Samsung and gypsii is one of the first location based and social networking application to support the Bada platform. Samsung is running promotions for gypsii as a Featured App on the Samsung Apps Store across several regions, including China, Latin America, Europe and Africa. Download gypsii for Samsung Wave here.
Below is a screen shot of gypsii running on the Samsung Wave (S8500).
This week marked a major milestone for the GyPSii team. We surged past two million users! Our team is psyched and we just want to say, “Dank je wel…!”
For us, it’s about more than location. It’s about the vision of a real time mobile web. Only one thing matters to us. Wherever you are, being in what we call the HereNow. That means no matter where your location, delivering relevant cool info about what’s around you, based on who you are and who you know. Creating that content, and sharing it. Search? it’s so 90’s. We say, “Don’t search the Internet, search the Planet!”
I invite you to create your own HereNow and share it. So, go mobile, jump on your bike, share your world, and do it in the HereNow. You were born, you checked in. Now you’re alive, check it out…! Two million people have so far. Come and join us!
Our next-gen GyPSii (w/Twitter support!) is now on Android and in the Apple Appstore. It’s called Tweetsii.
We love it when people tell us they like using our applications. It makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside. When all three major mobile operators and top internet companies in China tell us they like our applications we come close to bursting at the seams with joy.
Yesterday that’s exactly what happened. A top industry group for mobility and the Internet awarded GyPSii as the 2010 Most Innovative Location Based Service at the 7th annual 2010 Wireless Communication Conference in Beijing. The organizers of the conference include the major mobile carriers in China (China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom) and a host of other Internet companies such as Sina, Baidu, QQ/Tencent, Kaixin.
The panel of independent judges and representatives from the country’s largest mobile operators and Internet companies vetted the nominees in the category on the basis of user experience and also on the application’s ability to scale and create revenues. So this award is a confirmation of our business strategy as much as an endorsement of our products.
We’d like to thank the judges and organizers of the conference for this accolade. We’re so glad to have them in our corner as we drive towards our mission of connecting people and places and experiences using the power of the real time Internet.
#140conf was a blast yesterday. Our Executive Chairman, Dan Harple, put together a killer presentation on the HereNow, in what he called “Making Connections in the Real Time World, A Digital Ecology.” The responses have been overwhelmingly positive, thanks to all who tweeted your encouragement!
We’ll be at #140conf today too. If you’re around stop by our booth in the lobby to say. Or, you can always give us a shout at @GyPSiiMobile
It’s going to be a beautiful couple days in New York City. The sun is shining, the rose blossoms are out, and #140conf is in session. Perfect.
If you’re not familiar with #140conf, it’s a conference that brings together leaders from across the web to discuss issues related to social media, where we are and where we’re going. But it’s far from your standard conference, it has a tempo and collection of ‘characters’ suitable for the subject — keynotes are only 15 minutes and panel discussions are 20. Presenters include personalities disparate as Ivanka Trump, Joe Trippi, Michael Ian Black, educators, non-profits, and GyPSii Executive Chairman and Co-Founder Dan Harple.
If you’re in the city tomorrow or Wednesday you might want to check it out, here. If you can’t make it there, you can tune into the discussion live via Ustream.
Dan will be speaking at 9:30 EST Tuesday morning. He’ll address the new reality of making connections in the real world using digital technologies, the realization of a truly real Internet, and the power of mobility. If you’re interested in these concepts be sure to tune in at 9:30!
If you’re at the event and you’d like to meet up please DM us @GyPSiiMobile or reach me directly @tom_schuyler.
As GyPSii has grown in China we’ve learned a lot about the market and what it takes to have success as a Western country. Our very own Shane Lennon explains what we’ve learned and the cultural drivers of social media in the country. Check out his byline in Mobile Entertainmenthere.
This morning we learned that GyPSii has been nominated as the “2010 Best Innovative Mobile Application” by the China Electronic Information Industry Development Institute.
Winners will be announced at the 2010 Wireless Communications Applications Conference in Beijing April 19 – 21. We’re honored by the recognition and will have our finger crossed till then.
First things first – GyPSii is announcing a new app. It’s called Tweetsii and it’s a totally killer Twitter app that bridges the Twitter experience with location, mobility and contextual search: all in the palm of your hand, accessible anytime and anywhere. Right now it’s only available on iPhone, so if you have an iPhone and want to see how Twitter works in the real world – download it today.
Secondly – We gave advance access of the app to some ecosystem influencers to get their feedback on Tweetsii. So far, so good. This morning social media pundit and Twitter star, Jeff Pulver, published a blog post about Tweetsii heralding it as, “the next big step in the real time web experience.” We’re thrilled that Jeff is so enthusiastic; check out the full post here.
We’ll let you all know loads more about the app tomorrow, the day of the “official” launch.
If you’re going to be at SXSW make sure to drop by and say hello. We’ll be demoing in hall EH$ #1131 and roaming the events of Austin all week!
