Some of the biggest names in mobile turned out to Incognito bar in Barcelona tonight for the biggest GoMo News Blender we’ve ever seen. Gurus from advertising, marketing, blogging, development, operators, infrastructure and more turned out in droves to drink the cellar dry. Literally: the crowd actually drank the bar out of beer.
GoMo News wants to thank its beautiful sponsors from the bottom its heart: Smaato and Diffusion PR. In particular David Ross-Tomlin and Miriam “Ms. Smaato” Hoppe, who tirelessly guarded the front door with me for hours. Over 400 people attended the event, which filled both floors of the venue. Our attendee list is too good to go over in full here (although Smaato is compiling a full list), but a small section includes reps from Orange and Alactel Lucent, as well as bloggers like James Whatley and Helen Keegan.
Attendance at the GoMo News Blenders has climbed steadily year after year, and it is now firmly in place as one of the best casual networking (and drinking) events to go to over Mobile World Congress.
Mobile advertising powerhouses Jonathan MacDonald (l) and Harald Neidhardt
Ty Roberts (r), inventor of Gracenote
Just a small segment of our attendance
Me at the desk before it all went crazy - later in the night that bucket was filled to the brim with business cards!
Cian, Sinead, Smaato and Diffusion… you have no idea how sorry I am to miss the blender. It makes me hate being sick even more. Thank you for making it great and I really appreciate it.
Bena
some tweets below:
EUROLAN: Gr8 GoMo news party-packed with 500+ peeps-thnx @daverosstomlin and #Diffusion PR, #GoMoMWC and nice to meet @jsbond of #Xing #MWC #MWC10
amyronge: Great time at GoMo news party – thanks to @daverosstomlin and all Diffusion PR/GoMo news for hosting
#mwc http://myloc.me/3Txu8
about 5 hours ago from UberTwitter Ipadtweet: RT @sharj: @gomonews Just curious to now who won the iPad at GoMo Blender party tonight?
about 5 hours ago from API sharj: @gomonews Just curious to now who won the iPad at GoMo Blender party tonight?
about 6 hours ago from web jmacdonald: #mwc non-stop since getting here. alcatel roundtable cool then gomo party with @mlovesociety @whatleydude @jamescameron et al sorry4bailing!
about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck rjrsaraiva: Gomo News – MWC: Thanks to everyone who made this the biggest GoMo News Blender ever! http://bit.ly/di8yzW
about 7 hours ago from Ping.fm rjrsaraiva: Gomo News – 4 Chinese handset vendors develop taste for JIL http://bit.ly/cxQekU
about 8 hours ago from Ping.fm bobrapp: RT @HannaManna: Gomo blender is rocking. Lots of familiar faces and many new. Good fun. #mwc10
about 8 hours ago from dabr martinh: Not much tweeting from #mwc tonight. Clearly too many parties. Was a tight squeeze at the GoMo News Blender
about 8 hours ago from Twittelator derloos: Был на GoMo-пати. Наслаждался женским обществом.
about 8 hours ago from Twitterrific HannaManna: Gomo blender is rocking. Lots of familiar faces and many new. Good fun. #mwc10
about 8 hours ago from dabr FISG: Discussing non-mobile things with folk at GoMo News – weird! think i'm out of practice…#mwc10
about 8 hours ago from mobile web sanjmatharu: at GoMo News party with @jonprice @johnwyer @skywrite team.
about 8 hours ago from UberTwitter luisella: #MWC10 @ the gomo party, incognito pub…supercrowded!
about 8 hours ago from Mobile Web orelien: at GoMo Blender party (@ incognito Bar w/ 9 others) http://4sq.com/bNdzXj
about 8 hours ago from foursquare jebbrilliant: @ilicco I here you're at the GoMo party, come find me please.
about 10 hours ago from Gravity