I took a trip to Fort York last night to catch Alex’s third(?) Mobile Monday meeting. He’s done a great job in launching a new industry networking group from scratch, and pulled off a great event last night. A good turnout, excellent speakers from Google and Yahoo, and even some top-notch catering by The Busy Bee, an old friend of his from Stockhouse. Anyone in the GTA with little time and some extra money may want to look into having the Busy Bee provide some weekly meals for you, her blinis were the hit of the night.
One thing of interest to just about everyone I spoke with during the closing networking segment was Google’s “transcoder”. Their presentation revolved around what Google is doing in the mobile segment, and it’s quite insane and has applications well beyond mobile moving forward. It seems Google has created something they call the transcoder that, at the most base, recreates content into something readable on platforms and devices not typically capable of reading that content. An example would be that you can now view any website, PDF, Excel spreadsheet, or even javascript application on almost any mobile device through a Google search via that device. Google takes the item, transcodes it, and spits it out in a form that’s readable to the device. Crazy.
I’ll be doing an interview with our friend Alex shortly to discuss his successes and goals with the Mobile Monday group. In the meantime, anyone doing any type of business in the GTA should keep November 6th free and join me at the next meeting.