MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona 2008 was held in Espacio Movistar, Barcelona yesterday. Winners for the 6 allocated prizes are announced at the end of the event.

Buzzd, a mobile start-up based in New York USA, swept the MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona 2008 sweeping all the 3 prizes in the Early Start Up Stage, i.e. Jury Award, Audience Award and Community Award. It is amazing accomplishment for a company which claims 60% of their staffs are DJs (??). Congratulations to Nihal & Deepen for the win! (BTW, what’s up with the pointy hairs?)

For the Emerging Start Ups, winners are Kimia (Madrid), Funambol (Silicon Valley) and Taptu (UK). More updates will soon be available on the Barcelona Peer Awards website. According to plan a video streaming for the event preceding will be made available online soon.

Candidates for MobileMonday Peer Awards is nominated by each chapters of MobileMonday around the world. This year, there are a total of 27 companies are shortlisted in the Peer Awards final in Barcelona (see here) which divided into 2 categories, i.e. the early start up (founded in 2007) and emerging start up (founded in 2005-2007). Winner are selected by Jury favorites (i.e. Jury Award), Audience votes (Audience Awards) and selection by MobileMonday chapter founders (Community Awards). Among the juries are :

  • Carlos Domingo, General Director, Telefónica R&D;
  • Russell Buckley, MD, AdMob Europe / Vice-Chairman of MMA
  • Bena Roberts, Founder and Chief Analyst at BKI Media/GoMo News;
  • Daniel Appelquist, Senior Technology Strategist, Vodafone Group;
  • Michael Mandahl, General partner, Nexit Ventures;
  • Sirous Kavehercy, Strategy & Market Development at Acision;
  • Hugo Giralt, Relationship and Interactive Marketing Director Telefónica España
  • Ann Mei Chang, Mobile Engineering Director Google;
  • Carlo Longino, Mobhappy;
  • Madanmohan Rao, Editor, The Asia-Pacific Internet Handbook;
  • Alejandro Romero, Partners Director - Connected Life Yahoo!
  • Jouko Ahvenainen, Chief Operating Officer, Xtract;

All winners received invitation and tickets to the Global Peer Awards which will happen between May 18-22, 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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