Latest news and goings-on at ribot

On December 7th 2009, the first “Heroes of the Mobile Screen” event will be held. A big thank you is in order for the team behind it, which includes none other than Helen “Technokitten” Keegan and Dominic Travers. We’re very happy to be one of the partners for the event, providing the look and feel for the website and branding.

If you’re in the mobile industry, are interested in the future of mobile or involved in one of the crossover industries, it’s a must-attend event for you. With a great selection of speakers (including Doug Richard and Harald Neidhardt) and a selection of themes to provide focus. We’re counting down the days…

For more information, visit the mobile heroes site.

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We’re participating in two local events in Brighton today. The first as part of “Make it into Media”, where we will be part of an industry panel, providing advice to the upcoming creative talent of Sussex.

Later on in the day, we are providing one-to-one advice and feedback at the Wired Sussex and Brighton University Portfolio Clinic.

We’re looking forward to seeing you all there!

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We’re getting close to releasing a beta version of little spender for all you casual expense fanatics out there. We’ve launched a mini-site with a sign up form so that you can register your interest.

Ideally, we’re looking for people who have an N-Series Nokia phone (e.g. N95, N86, N78…), an iPhone or an iPodTouch. If you don’t have any other these devices, don’t worry. Sign up and we’ll notify you of additional handset support.

So, if you’re interested, do pop along to HeyLittleSpender.com and say hello.

If you’re on twitter, follow the team at @little_spender.

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The ribot team is growing and we’re extremely happy to announce that Summer intern and recent interactive design D&AD award winner, Ben Breckler has joined as our motion design specialist.

Ben graduated from UCA Maidstone as a graphic designer. A few words from the talented Mr Breckler:

“From my very first experiences as a designer, I have felt the urge to observe and understand the world that surrounds me. I consider design a vital aspect to improve quality of life in society. I therefore stand for functionality, purpose, and simplicity, which are reflected in my work and style.”

Great to have you on board Ben!

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We’re pleased to announce that Little Spender has been recognised for its advertising potential at this year’s Smaato Advertising Awards. The award is in its second year and is going from strength to strength, with the number of entrants more than doubling to 325.

We’re extremely happy that a product as simple as little spender has been chosen as a finalist in the Smaato Mobile Advertising Awards 2009. Little spender is a fun and playful way to track your spending through mobile micro-experiences. Behind the scenes, there’s some “spending magic” going on, which in turn allows for contextually-relevant services to be offered to users.

As a finalist we have won a Dot.mobi Device Atlas license, which we’ll be putting to use very shortly.

To find out more about little spender, please take your seats, for the grand curtain is about to open at heyLittleSpender.com very shortly.

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in San Francisco, on the evening of the 15th October (tonight, as of writing this). We’d like to thank all the people behind the scenes of these awards. We can only try and imagine how much work has gone into this (We’re looking at you, Harald and team!).

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Onwards and upwards for little spender! We’ve just been notified that we’ve won the lifestyle category of the Flash Lite Developer Challenge and with that $15,000 US.

Congratulations to all the other award winners too! There’s some great things going on in the Flash Lite world at the moment. Thank you to all who supported us and voted for us too.

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We’ve just been notified that little spender, our expense tracking app has been nominated as one of the finalists in the Flash Lite Developer Challenge!

Voting is now open to the public (quick registration required) and the winners will be announced on Wednesday 17th June (next week!). Good luck to all the nominees!

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This year’s MEX Mobile User Experience Conference was the second year of our attendance, and this time we decided to enter our first app into the awards. We were delighted to be selected as finalists in the “professional” category, happy that our work was valued by industry experts. However, we were shocked, albeit jumping for joy, when it was announced that we were the winners of our category!

“The MEX Awards recognise the very best in customer-centred mobile design. With Little Spender, the Ribot team have innovated through simplicity and creativity, producing a tool ideally suited to the needs of their target users.” — Marek Pawlowski, Founder, MEX.

For more details about the awards, visit the MEX awards site.

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We have been contacted by the organisers of the MEX Mobile User Experience Awards to inform us that “Little Spender has been short-listed for a 2009 MEX Mobile User Experience Award in the Professional category”!

This is great news for us, having put so much effort into designing and building an app that revolves around ease of use, longevity and playfulness. What one might have otherwise seen as a chore is, at least in this example, a satisfying and valuable consumer experience.

For more details, including a motion demo of little spender, check out our entry. The awards ceremony takes place on the evening of Tuesday 19th May after the first day of the MEX Mobile User Experience conference in London.

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Behind the scenes, we’ve been little busy bees, working with the team at dotMobi on their fantastic plug-in pack for Wordpress that helps you mobilise your Wordpress site and blog.

There are many components in the toolkit, and ribot focused on the look and feel of the “mobile blog”, supplying a number of default themes. These will hopefully provide you with a lovely starting-point for your new-look, Wordpressed-up mobile site.

For more details, see the official dotMobi Wordpress mobile pack article.

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