Wow, I’m finally fully recovered from my favorite party of the year.  BuzzWorthy was off the hook and you would know if you were there and if you missed it, well YOU MISSED OUT (Will).  We packed the our space, standing room only and had people lining up trying to get in.

Thanks to all who came.  We really appreciate you coming and joining us for our very first (and not last) BuzzWorthy party.

I want to personally thank Tobias from Nimbuzz for pushing to make this happen in such a timely fashion.  He really took the reins and made sure things fell into place.

Christian and Alee of Attack Marketing were both amazing.  Christian had a great vision and Alee made sure his vision was expressed.

Cian along with the rest of the GoMo News team were supporters of this event from the beginning.  Thank you very much for your assistance.

Also a big thanks to our Media Sponsors:

Last but never least thanks to our Production Company:

BrilliantExpos did s superb job with the logistics, invitations, location, web interface and social media.  Thanks to the BrilliantExpos team (for disclosure sake, BrilliantExpos is my company).

Guess what everybody, I’m coming to SF and I’m putting a party together.  Nimbuzz, Attack Marketing, and GoMo News are sponsoring and we have a great lineup of stuff going on.  We have beta apps to give out, product launches and announcements coming.  In less then the 24 hours the event has been public we have more then 50 people coming.  You don’t want to miss out so head over to our Facebook page or if you don’t have FB then out to EventBrite and RSVP.

The details are that it’s this coming Tuesday Nov. 10 at the Thirsty Bear in SF.  The address is 661 Howard St. and we will be there from 6:30pm till at least 9pm.

Thanks to our sponsors above and our media sponsors: GoMo News, Into Mobile, PhoneDog, Brilliant Expos, GuerillaSushi, MobileBeyond and US Mobile Industry

Don’t forget, this is a BrilliantExpos production…. That’s me.

I am one lucky guy, I know that, I get to attend the premier events around the world when it comes to mobile technology and I get to play with the latest and greatest devices.  Sometimes devices I’m not at liberty to talk about for months.  So when I was at CTIA last week in San Diego I made sure to take a look at the N900.  My short introduction to it really hooked me.  I’m a big fan of HootSuite, a web based Twitter app and I was happily shocked when Chanse Arrington got it running on his N900 without any hitch or tweaking of settings during the GoMo News Blender.  I mean I was really impressed.  Then the next day Joe Gallo had 24 apps running simultaneously on his N900.  That’s not a typo, he really had 24 going.

On top of that I got to check out what seemed like a universal and all in one in box for all incoming messages.  I have written about this in the past and hope what I saw was accurate.

Lastly I was more impressed with the contacts application then anything else.  Presence seems to be built in according to what I’ve been told.  Basically you input all your friends contact info including instant messaging ID’s like for Skype and Google Chat.  Then when you look at that contact it will show if they are on line.  Now this is a huge step in the right direction.  For years I’ve been reading about presence and that it’s coming but this is the first time I’ve truly seen it implemented deep into a phones software.  I’m hoping it will be expanded beyond just contacts but I’m happy about this as a place to start.

My only concern at the moment is the interoperability of 3rd party applications like emoze (a client) and Truphone with Maemo.  Theoretically QT is supposed to solve this but the question is, will developers really migrate their apps over?

As a whole the N900 seems to be a stellar device that if all goes well may be Nokia’s very first mainstream tablet.  I would like to see T-Mobile pick up the N900 and add it to their line up and I’d also like to see Nokia heavily promote developers to do their thing and make awesome apps for the N900.  We’ll just have to wait and see.  Great start Nokia!!!

You can count 24 apps running in the pics if you look closely.

UPDATE: So I just watched Ewan from MobileDeveloper.tv do an unboxing and once over and I’m sold.  I am absolutely ready to get my hands on an N900 Ray, Molly are you listening?  I can’t tell you how much I want one of these now to play with.  It was a prerelease unit Ewan has and it was still smoking fast.  It looked like it was burning up the OS and the web.

If you weren’t at the GoMo News Blender last week you missed the best party in town.  It was a great time by all and someone actually told me it was the best party at CTIA.  I could go on for paragraphs about the Blender but I would rather thank Bena Roberts and GoMo News for sponsoring our shindig and of course the great Cian O’Sullivan who was our always gracious host.  I was just along for the ride.

My good friend Cian over at GoMo News wrote about NeuStar during Mobile World Congress and I’m just reading about it now.  I’m really excited because of what they are doing.  NeuStar is incorporating presence into the Telecom Italia (TIM) service.  In your handsets phone book they will show you how your contact wants to be contacted.  Anything from a phone call, to sms to IM or beyone.  I think this is genious, why aren’t all the telcos incorporating this service.  Take a read and see what Cian has to say.  He says it better then I do.

GoMo News is again hosting one of their famous Blenders.  This one will take place Wednesday February 18 at BelChica in Barcelona, during Mobile World Congress. TopMobile20 will be holding the awards ceremony at the beginning of the GoMo party, so please make sure to stop by early and RSVP here.

Great news.  The TopMobile20 contest is under way and the voting numbers are rising.  Please take a minute and go vote for your TopMobile apps at www.TopMobile20.com.

If you are going to be in Barcelona, Spain during Mobile World Congress please join us at Bel Chica Wednesday night February 18 from 6-8pm for the TopMobile20 awards and the always popular GoMo News Blender.