GeoMob Meeting No.2 – It’s about the data, stupid

Christopher Osbornes fantastically popular Geomob group, which only held its first meeting before Christmas, held the second event to a packed room at the lovely Wallacespace, err, space, near Covent Garden yesterday.

Speakers were Russell Middleton from Google, Alfie Dennen, Terry Jones from FluidDB (not to be confused with FluidDB.com!) and our very own Rummble Founder, Andrew J Scott.

The topic was the connection between context, location and device.

Andrew discussed the rise of LBS, the fact they are finally with us and that the future will be all about crunching data in order to make services RELEVANT and CONTEXTUAL. Personalisation for the user is key, but you cant do that without understanding the user behaviour. “It’s about the data, stupid” was Andrews mantra for the evening, which luckily for Andrew other speakers seemed to agree with!

You can view a good text overview and summary of the event on Alfies blog post about Geomob number 2, view the Rummble Geomob presentation on SlideShare here and photos from the Geomob events here.

Thanks to Christopher for all his hard work organising, to Yahoo for sponsorship (free beer, juice and munchies just make the evening SO much better!) and see you at the next event!