Last Monday we held our December Mobile Monday Edinburgh event on the 30th of November to avoid clashing with a London-based event. Thanks to University of Edinburgh Informatics and especially Informatics Ventures for hosting us in the wonderful new building, and also to the Apps Club for providing copious food and drink.

I was struck at the event by the diversity of areas and approaches - far from being a surfeit of the latest iPhone toys, the services being demo ranged from medical monitoring equipment to voice-based automated customer feedback systems, by way of network-service apps, visual search and, for sure a few apps for iPhone and other devices.

I contributed to this showing off the app we built for Finnish weather  company Foreca. This included the soon-to-be-released iPhone app with unique drag and zoom of maps, as well as conventional and touch-based Java ME version.You can download the latter here.

As I was taking photos of the event I couldn’t take copious notes, but overall it was a fascinating view into how our local mobile community is coming together. With an audience of nearly 50 people from a good range of backgrounds and vocations it indicates that mobile development is leaving its corner and while not really mass market yet, is heading that way.

And that only leaves me to wish Mobile Acuity best of luck with their cool Visual Search technology in the Mobile Premier Awards at Barcelona 2010.

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