We are currently putting together theAppCircus calendar of events for this autumn. We have already some 30 cities confirmed that will integrate an AppCircus at their local event, ranging from Mobile Mondays or Open Coffee Club events to droidcon camps and other international conferences. We have events scheduled in North America, LATAM, EMEA and Asia.

If you’re interested to host an AppCircus at your event in your city, feel free to contactus to receive more information as an organizer or as a supporter.

The AppCircus is an open source global traveling showcase of the most creative and innovative apps presented by their creators during some of the most influential international events in mobile/web. AppCircus is open to developers, startups and any other organization.

Here’s a short recap of the FAQ to organize an AppCircus at your local event:

* it’s FREE!
* it integrates easily into any event (you just need 20 to 40 minutes for 5 or 10 app presentations)
* you can keep any local sponsoring you raise
* we share international sponsoring (if available)
* you select your local jury to select the presenting apps
* it’s your local nomination to the Mobile Premier Awards

If you’d like to be included in our launch communications in September and get your event scheduled on our website, please contact us asap and we’ll get back to you with all details.

Today my summer order from Amazon arrived

Here’s the list of books included I want to read this summer.

Absolute MUST READ and/or recommendations by friends:

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier

One of the godfathers of “virtual reality”… I’ve worked with Jaron with Chromatophoria at theCyberTheatre in Brussels in the nineties. I have always been following his work since then. This year, he released this book that has been recommended to me by many friends. The New York Times wrote in its review earlier this year: “It is necessary reading for anyone interested in how the Web and the software we use every day are reshaping culture and the marketplace.”

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff

I had the chance to collaborate with Douglas in the MuLiMob project a couple of years ago and he was so kind to participate to the Mobile Trends 2020 document I curated earlier this year (nearly 80k views by now!). Douglas has always been a great inspiration for me, he wrote a couple of interesting books the last decade. Life INc. is another MUST READ that has been receiving a lot of attention lately.

Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life by Robert H. Carlson

Tipped by friend Yuri van Geest (@vangeest), I’m really looking forward to start reading this one: this book should give me a deeper insight on (r)evolutions in bioengineering and a progress update on singularity.

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century by Henry Jenkins

Convergence Culture (where old and new media collide) by the same author I read a couple of years ago so I definately didn’t want to miss this update focused on media education. From the back cover: “This report aims to shift the conversation about the “digital divide” from questions about access to technology to questions about access to opportunities for involvement in participatory culture and how to provide all young people with the chance to develop the cultural competencies and social skills needed.”

Then there are ones I didn’t had the chance yet to read and that were still recommended by friend Gerd Leonhard (@gleonhard), so I ordered them too:

The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen

What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis

And this one I was just curious to read:

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations byClay Shirky

And a practical one to close with:

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo

And now for the toughest part… Which book to start first

Feel free to suggest similar interest books you absolutely want recommend and share – for my post-summer order

Last week, I received a copy of the HABITAR magazine, titled “Bending The Urbam Frame”. Habitar is a walk through new emerging scenarios in the city curated by José Luis de Vicentewith the help of Fabien Girardin, both based in Barcelona.

“Utopian and radical architects in the 1960s predicted that cities in the future would not only be made of brick and mortar, but also defined by bits and flows of information. The urban dweller would become a nomad who inhabits a space in constant flux, mutating in real time. Their vision has taken on new meaning in an age when information networks rule over many of the city’s functions, and define our experiences as much as the physical infrastructures, while mobile technologies transform our sense of time and of space.”

The magazine is a catalogue of ideas and images from world-class artists, design and architecture studios, and hybrid research centres including Timo Arnall, Julian Bleecker, Ángel Borrego – Office for Strategic Spaces, Nerea Calvillo, Citilab-Cornellà, Pedro Miguel Cruz, Dan Hill, IaaC – Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña, kawamura-ganjavian + Maki Portilla Kawamura + Tanadori Yamaguchi, Aaron Koblin, Philippe Rahm architectes, Marina Rocarols, Enrique Soriano, Pep Tornabell, Theodore Molloy, Semiconductor, SENSEable City Lab, Mark Shepard.

Together they come up with a series of potential tools, solutions and languages to negotiate everyday life in the new urban situation.

This new urban landscape is no longer predicated solely on architecture and urbanism. These disciplines now embrace emerging methodologies that bend the physical with new measures, representations and maps of urban dynamics such as traffic or mobile phone flows. Representations of usage patterns and mapping the life of the city amplify our collective awareness of the urban environment as a living organism. These soft and invisible architectures fashion sentient and reactive environments.

The works are also exposed in an exhibition in LABoral – Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijon [Asturias] in Spain.

You can download a PDF copy of the magazine here but I recommend you buy the paperbook version, you can buy it here (English – Spansih – price = 5 €).

The work is a real recommendation for everyone interested in new emerging urban scenarios, urban design, planning & architecture, nomadic architecture, spatial intelligence, urban software, participatory systems in cities and networked urbanism.

Here are the slides from my presentation at Samsung bada Developer Dayon June 3 in Amsterdam.

I am delighted to introduce you to the AppCircus!

AppCircus is a global traveling showcase of the most creative and innovative apps by developers, startups and other organizations presented in front of live audiences. It’s an app showcase in partnership with some of the most influential international events in mobile/web to bring opportunities for developers and industry professionals to meet and inspire one another.

It’s all still a bit shaky right now, we’re still setting up the tents We’re working hard to bring you the best apps live in your neighborhood…

Currently confirmed AppCircus event partners (click the respective links to sign up to each one of them!):

- eComm America 2010 on April 19 and 21 in San Francisco

- European Augmented Reality Conference on April 23 and 24 in Berlin

- next10 conference on May 11 & 12, 2010 in Berlin

Mobile 2.0 Europe and Silicon Valley will be activated shortly.

For developers, signing up is easy: just add your app to your dotopen profile (if you don’t have one, create one first here) and sign up to the event you’d like to showcase your app!

If you are an organizer and would like to set up an AppCircus at your event, it’s easy. Start by dropping the AppCircus team a line.

The AppCircus is looking forward to a year of traveling to many major cities at different corners of the planet with an interest in enabling app innovation. Every AppCircus winner receives automatically a nomination to showcase its app at theMobile Premier Awards 2011 in Barcelona, during the Mobile World Congress.

So, what are you waiting for? Join the AppCircus now!

We are delighted to announce that this year’s Mobile 2.0 Europe event has evolved into a full day event, called the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference exploring the Future of Mobile Development and Innovation of an ever-changing Mobile Ecosystem, and is scheduled for June 17th 2010.

The event will be held at the brand new premises of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain‎.

The plenary sessions will be held at the Auditorium with a capacity of 208 seats. Four (4) extra workshop rooms of each 50 seats are available to run simultaneous tutorial and workshop sessions, all equipped with projector, screen and wifi. Check the venuepage for more details and pictures of that unique place.

The Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference brings together thought leaders and experts from different aspects of the mobile ecosystem. Tailored specifically for mobile/web application developers and technologists this conference will at the same time help startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers to better understand the latest technologies that will define the mobile market of tomorrow.

This year our main topic will be focused on the many aspects of the App Economy, so if you’d like to show how cool your App Store is, run a workshop on your preferred platform or HTML5, or talk about how you make money in this new economy, write to us at info@dotopen.com.

The Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is an opportunity to connect to industry leadership and fellow innovators and broaden your C-level relationships with senior technologists.

For developers
Learn more about how the mobile ecosystem works. How can I make money as a developer? What are the existing developer programs with device manufacturers, operators, internet players, etc? How can I build solid partnerships with industry players? How do I make sense of the App Store explosion?

For industry players
Connect to leaders of the mobile and web developer community. Learn about new projects and opportunities and markets. Share with the developers your projects and vision and get first hand feedback to be more effective. Reach out to developers on other platforms and position your application store vis à vis the competition.

More news and updates will be announced here on the Mobile 2.0 Europe blog and on@mobile20 the coming days and weeks.

We’ll start announcing part of the program from next week onwards.

Early bird invitations and registration will be opened anytime soon now. Stay tuned!

If you are interested in Sponsorship of Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference, wish to be considered as a Speaker, or would like to find out more about how to register early, write to us at info@dotopen.com.

I look forward to seeing you all in June in Barcelona!

I am pleased to announce the Mobile 2.0 Europe 2010 Developer Conference on June 17 in Barcelona, and there’s going to be, once again, a lot of mobile developer activity in my beloved Mediterranean city.

On June 15-16 and co-located with Mobile 2.0 Europe, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is holding an Industry Workshop on Augmented Reality and the Web (co-chaired by Mobile 2.0 founder and organizing-committee member Daniel Appelquist). The workshop is free to participants but in order to participate you must submit a position paper. Check their website for more information and instructions on how to submit a paper.

On June 18, 22@Barcelona and Barcelona Activa in collaboration with MediaKIS and the media clusters of Rome, Paris, Amsterdam and Malta, partners of the ImMediaTeproject consortium, are organizing the first Mobile Apps Investment Forum. Developers applying for the AppCircus will get a chance to pitch their app at the forum the following day, read below for further information.

And here, the details on the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference, the one-day event in Barcelona on June 17, 2010 exploring the future of mobile development and innovation, presented by dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee. This year, with the support of Barcelona City Council, 22@ Barcelona, Nokia, PayPal X,BlackBerry, bluenove, Telefonica Developer Communities, Orange, Vodafone,Microsoft and Skyhook Wireless.

The conference is tailored to mobile developers who want to discover the latest tools and trends in mobile technology (DevTrack) and business (BizTrack).

We’ll kick-off the day with a couple of panels that will set the tone: “Web vs. Native Apps” and “How to Make Money as a Developer”.

This year’s Developer Track will have 16 different workshop sessions and take place in four fully equipped rooms. Participants will get hands on insights into the latest in mobile development directly from the platform leaders and experts: Nokia, Vodafone, Blackberry, Mozilla, Opera, Paypal and more. Some DevTrack sessions will be:

- HTML5 and the new generation of Tablets [with Julian Moreno Beltran]
- Mobile Mountains [with Tom Hume]
- OneSocialWeb Tutorial [with Laurent Eschenauer]
- Using Geolocation and Maps in Android [with Israel Ferrer]
- HTML5 Apps, The mobile web taking over? [with Wolfram Kriesing]
- Opera Mobile emulator [with Andreas Bovens]
- CouchDB [with Martin Higham]
- Mobile Web Evolution: HTML5, Video, Widgets and APIs [with François Daoust]

The Business Track will be all about the app economy with panels and talks from thought leaders such as Volker Hirsch who will talk about ”How Social helps to Deliver Effective Freemium Mobile Games & Apps”, Christine Perey focusing on ”Generating Revenues with Mobile Augmented Reality” and Vincent Hoogsteder from Distimo will talk about the “Mobile Application Stores State of Play”. Check the speakers’ page for more information and bio’s. More talks will be added the coming days.

To celebrate the great community of mobile developers Mobile 2.0 Europe will close the day with a spectacular AppCircus showcasing 10 of the the most innovative apps live on stage! Apply here if you would like to present your app in front of your peers and industry experts!

The event will be held at the brand new Communication Campus of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is the most open & complete mobile developer conference supported by the major industry players and providing an intense hands-on and engaging experience.

You can get a ticket to Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference for only 99€ for dotopen members. You can register for FREE here! Otherwise, standard ticket price for the event is 299€. Buy here.

Mobile Apps Investment Forum Barcelona, June 18^th 2010 Barcelona

22@Barcelona and Barcelona Activa in collaboration with MediaKIS and the media clusters of Rome, Paris, Amsterdam and Malta, partners of the ImMediaTe project consortium, are organizing the first Mobile Apps Investment Forum in the city of Barcelona on 18th June. The developers applying for the AppCircus will get a chance to pitch their app at this forum the following day. Click here fore more information.

I hope to see you in Barcelona next month!