Rodrigo's moblog

4 happy owners of a Nokia 7710 meet up

At least 4 of us showed up with our Nokia 7710 phones at a blogging conference today in Boulogne Billancourt. Please note the earphones ...

From left to right: myself, Jacques Froissant, Richard Menneveux, Christophe Grébert.

How do you like my new phone

Compliments of Nokia: their latest 7710 smartphone!

Met Geek girl Fanny today

Great meeting French Geek world egeria Fanny today, in the midst of a snow storm ;)

Folks @ 3GSM'05: Himesh Bhise

Himesh and I started working together last year: I was leading the European mobility efforts in Europe for AOL, whereas he took over the efforts for AOL Mobile in the US. Great chap, with a native strategic mind.

Folks @ 3GSM'05: Mathieu Nouzareth

Mathieu is the co-founder with his brother, and Chairman of Boonty, the leading online games distributor in Europe. Interesting to see that he is attending a mobile phone conference. What do you think his next move will be ? ;)

Folks @ 3GSM'05: Gilles Babinet

Gilles is one of those guys who always puts a smile on your face. He's also the founder and chairman of Musiwave, the digital music company for mobiles in Europe. He launched a streaming radio service for mobiles this week in Cannes.

Folks @ 3GSM'05: Patrick Chassany

Patrick is the founder & former CEO of amen.fr, one of France's largest hosting companies (that's where I host my sepulveda.net domain name ;). He sold his company to the Dutch VNU networks last year. He's here hunting for some new ideas... It's been a while since we saw each other, at a dinner with Marc Canter in Paris I believe.

Folks @ 3GSM'05: Jean Cherbonnier

It's the first time we meet in a place, not by accident, but on purpose. We have bumped into each other like 4-5 times last year, in many different places. Jean is a former co-founder of Kiwee/K-mobile, recently sold to AG Interactive, where he's now the European VP Marketing.

Folks @ 3GSM'05: Thomas Volpi, Julien Salanon, Hubertus von Roenne

Another bunch of buddies showed up there in Cannes: here's almost the whole crowd in charge of mobility at AOL France: Thomas Volpi in charge of bizdev, Julien Salanon in charge of strategic alliances, and Hubertus von Roenne, pan-European manager of the team.

Folks @ 3GSM'05: Mathias Vogel

Another good surprise: Mathias is in charge of mobility at AOL Deutschland. I worked with him for many months last year, designing the strategy there.