At least that’s what I said yesterday in the Financieel Dagblad. The business news paper of the Netherlands. Universal identity services on your mobile will determine who you are and help you get down to business. With banks, with stores, socially and between al these silo’s. OpenID for mobile will be an important step. It is key for the path towards Vendor Relationship Management.  Also I say that RFID chips will be a big impact. (Click to get a bigger view).
The did a whole page on mobile. Point of the article was that the device features are pretty much done now as most basics are getting covered: 3G, Camera, Speaker, GPS, etc. What people now want are good services. What application do you need on your phone? Instead op how many mega pixels the camera is. Good point. They used the ING Wegwijzer we did for ING as an example. Here is a scan of the whole page. (Click to get a bigger view).

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And we made them do it.

In Dutch its called the ING Wegwijzer. With the app you can find ATMs in the Netherlands. The coolest view is the camera view. You hold the phone in front of you. The Camera ’sees’ what direction you are looking at and on the view screen this image is enhanced with ATM’s that are there. It works in any direction.

With the App all ATM’s are findable. The ING ones have their own logo. Also there is a Map and Satellite view:

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Its done with the software from Mobilizy in Austria. They started it all with Wikitude.

It was great getting this off the ground and working with Mobilizy and with ING Bank. I wonder what’s next…

[UPDATE]
ING sent out a press release with video (in Dutch):

Some more press:

• SpringWise: ING application for G1 phone uses camera & compass to point out nearest ATM
• Bright: Android-app toont pinautomaten
• Marketingfacts: ING introduceert ATM Locator met Augmented Reality
• Gvenk Daily: Aflevering 168
• DutchCowboys: ING als eerste merk op de Google telefoon met unieke app
• Nu Zakelijk: G1 telefoon vindt dichtstbijzijnde geldautomaat

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Picture from Annejan

On january 8th we organised the biggest Android Dev Camp in the world. 250 people participated at the event. During this event we announced a Dev Challenge. Developers had 2,5 weeks time to submit their Android application. In the end we received 22 working Android applications. WHOHHOOOO! We did not expect such a big turnout. I was also a jurymember and saw all the 22 applications. The submitted apps can be categorised in 4 segments: Tools, Loc. based services, Games and Messaging.

Anyway yesterday(Feb. 29th) the winners were announced. All winners got a G1 and will be part of T-Mobile’s advertising campaign around the launch of G1.

1st Prize Metermaid:

Additional prize: Ticket to Silicon Valley

Martin Koel and Alida Roskam

Category: Tool

Usecase: Making parking at parkingmeters easier and quicker.

How does it work: It basically makes composing an SMS for your parkingservice easier by bookmarking.

Uniqueness: Makes use of all existing parkingservices. You can bookmark license plates and locations.

Gigfinder Roeland Landegent and Mark Bekkers:

Mapbased Gigfinder. Uses the GPS function in the phone. Gets gigs from Last.fm. When you find a nice Gig. You can find your way towards it with Google Maps.

Backchannel Eelco Lempsink:

This service blew me away. It uses ZeroConf to set up a wifi chatroom. You just need to enter a name and start chatting in the wifi hotspot you are in. everybody else in the hotspot that has this application open can receives your messages. Eelco just needs to figure out how to position and brand his service

Treasuremytext Paul Stringer:

Tresuremytext saves your sms messages to web automatically. Very handy if you treasure your messages. Watch out that you dont publish your messages accidently on the treasuremytext website. The whole sign-up procedure is still too complicated. Katie was happy with the price

Nukaart Sander Stefann, Arjen Haayman and Max Dammers

Nukaart shows all articles from nu.nl on a map. It has a great graphical user interface. It already an existing on the web ported to Android

Check Android Market on your G1 for the apps.

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Robert Scoble did an Interview with Sumit Agarwal, product manager for mobile at Google. It provides a good overview of the mobile search services Google provides in the US via Voice or SMS. The simplicity of the services is cool. As well as the integration with the more complicated services.

Hmmmm, maybe SPRXmobile should build a voice interface in a new version of the omroep application so you can find and listen to your shows hands free… You know, for when you are driving… Or am I the only one that listens to video’s on the road?

Seriously, voice interfacing is not being used enough yet and is important on mobile just as mobile games which you can play with just your thumb.

The video is best in the first 15 minutes.

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Watch the Android Develeopment Camp Amsterdam live recorded stream here. It was a great event, full, inspiring and great networking.

Hear people from Wikitude (at 00:16 and my Fav), PicSsay (at 00:45), Twitli (at @00:57) and ShopSavvy (at 1:27) talk about their apps. Its one big stream, quality is not high but doable. Please skip me set the stream up in the first 10 minutes of the video…

Live TV : Ustream

SPRX initiative, organized together with:
Peter Robinett - @pr1001 - http://www.bubblefoundry.com/
Yuri van Geest - @vangeest - http://yuri.typepad.com/
Martijn Pannevis - @panman - http://martijnpannevis.nl/
Maarten den Braber - @mdbraber - http://maartendenbraber.com/

And thanks to MoMo Amsterdam, T-mobile and Google.

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I have the G1 now for a week. It is a good phone which is still very new. This means that it doesn’t have the 10.000 apps like the iphone. Yet it already does some amazing things apart from seamless Gmail, Google Calander & Talk integration. The application that I keep going back to is Wikitude.

Wikitude is projects wikipedia location data on your screen on the camera input. You hold the camera level in front of you and see the world through its lens. Wikitude projects wiki data over it. As you turn the phone around you see the different points of interested projected in the screen. It a simple idea but very powerful. Here is the developer demoing their product:

My next tourist guide is in my phone. When I arrive I just hold my phone up and see what’s up, superimposed on the camera image.

It a good start. Its in the same category as Point and Find from Nokia. Here is Scobeizer checking it out. Point and Find works with image recognition instead of looking up data based on a GPS position like Wikitude. Point and Find is a QR-code like application. It scans an image and the get an action from it. Yet it can ’scan’ any image, even your house, and then go to your private website.

Both are examples of combining the real world with the virtual world. It will make the webbrowser based internet look very old.

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