• Vijay is moderating a session on Mobile Marketing at the IAMAI conference – Free for SME’s. on 6th July 2010 at Habitat Center, ND. Event details here (http://ievents.iamai.in/ict4sme/agenda.php).
• VAS Asia 2010 is scheduled for 9th July 2010 at Le Meridian, New Delhi. Vijay Shekhar Sharma of One97 Communications is scheduled to speak at the event.
• One97 Communications is partnering Mobile Monday – to be held on 17th July 2010 at One97 office in Noida. The event link is here (http://momodelhi10.eventbrite.com/).

Journalists, bloggers, media persons looking to connect at any of the events, please leave us a message on this blog/ mail – talk2one97@one97.net or leave a message at our twitter handle @One97.

May you have an exciting time in the weeks ahead, a bit like what we are feeling at the moment.

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25th March 2010 at Seven cities in India

On March 25, 2010, in more than 175 cities around the world, thousands of people will demonstrate social media’s power for social good through the second annual Twestival. The global event is a worldwide fundraising initiative that uses social media to focus participants’ talent and resources to benefit one cause for one day.

This year, Twestival Global is supporting Concern Worldwide, an international humanitarian organization, with operations in India too, in aid of Education for the underprivileged children of this world.

Twestival will happen on the 25th of March across seven cities in India including Bangalore, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Goa, Kolkata and Mumbai. These cities will host particular events where over 500 people are expected to participate and rally for education for underprivileged children.

Join them and take part in this global movement to connect people online and offline for a cause.

There are multiple ways to help support this event.

-  Attend the event
-  Donate directly to the charity through one of the India City blogs
-  Sponsor gifts and prizes for the event participants

-  Simply spread the word! Blog, tweet and write about us

At one point of time, offline messaging (read: Email) was the only type of messaging. Now you have instant message, Public Wall, Scrap Book (Orkut), broadcast messaging (Status message of FB / Linkedin) and live updates (Twitter /Jaiku). Top it up with options availble to device specific options : you have SMS, USSD and even PIN messaging (Sending a message to another blackberry device without going to mail server! )
Top it all up with multimedia messaging and variations of Push and Pull.  Whoa! there are so many options.

I do not think innovation in messaging is going to stop. Incidentally, always on, always-with-me devices will keep giving us reasons to evole to new messaging types and locations.

There will be many more types of messaging I can see. We should be doing Video messaging / Video broadcast to Avatar based messaging to text over IP, to cross platform messaging.

Finally I think messaging will be structured like an open RSS based application.

You will be able to read “messages” in one single message box. Your emails will be in RSS (Google already did it), your friends Facebook status message will be RSS, your twitter feeds will be in RSS and even your all other new messaging formats will be made available in RSS.

Obviously your SMS will also be available as an RSS feed from operator : -)

All the above does mean we will see a new version of RSS coming, which will take care of authentication / security and sessions aspect of it. I hope it includes the “push” aspect of it too.

So some days ( in multiple of 365 units) later we should be able to consolidate our messaging to include our various today’s and future social messaging. It should be pushed to my always-with-me device sequence based on priority and social profile of “buddies/friends”.

Aah, I can’t wait to be there. 

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