Mobile Monday Boston recently sponsored a dinner for CTOs of major mobile-based companies in the Boston area. Check out the MoMo CTO Dinner Video Recap for a quick hollah from LocaModa’s CTO, Steve An.

The dinner was sponsored by Flybridge Capital and moderated by Wade Roush of Xconomy (who has always been a loyal supporter of LocaModa… Thanks, Wade!)

Steve looks pretty darn psyched about the mobile climate in Boston, eh?

We’re busy as ever over at LocaModa HQ, but wanted to share a great pic of Wiffiti at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA! Our CTO, Steve An, went to a show last weekend and snapped this in the lobby.

Also wanted to pass along an open invite to the Mobile Monday Boston event on November 17th, 7-9pm at the Omni Parker Hotel (It’s a Monday). It’s free, and you can register here. The focus this month is on early stage mobile companies. MoMo always puts on a great event!

I came across this amazing excerpt this morning on Smart Mobs, which quite elegantly sums up the integrated, convergent vision of LocaModa and The New Media Triad.

The passage, taken from a longer work by Teemu Arina, explores How Mobile is Changing Our Society:

I have a feeling that the question we pose today is wrong. It’s not about mobile anymore. For some people, mobile means the devices that we carry around as we move, usually hooked up to a cellular network. The truth is, the activities we go through online with computers and what we do with our “mobiles” cannot be seen as separate anymore. This convergence means our language needs to change or our culture will never understand its future. . .

The mobile is like the horse wagon. If Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they would have said “faster horses.” It’s the language and our experience of the past that limits our understanding of the future of “mobile.”

Arina’s Mobile Monday Amsterdam event sold out its 400-seat capacity in 2 hours.

I’m not surprised.

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Mobile Monday Boston put on a fantastic event last night and hosted an amazing panel of Boston’s most successful mobile experts. The lecture hall was filled to the brim, and the discussion could have gone on for at least another hour.

LocaModa’s CEO Stephen Randall and Enpocket Founder (and current Global Director of Mobile Brand Strategy for Nokia) Jeremy Wright found quick cadence doling out keen industry insight in dueling British accents, while VoiceSignal’s Founder and CEO Dan Roth was not only hilarious, but gave some very sage advice to aspiring entrepreneurs.

The panelists discussed the challenges of entrepreneurship in general, and segued into a more targeted conversation about the mobile industry in particular. Referred to as the “Godfathers” of the mobile world in Boston, the panel built off each other’s advice well, and gave their honest views of the constantly shape-shifting industry. It was wonderful to see such a great turnout of students, newly-minted MBAs, business professionals, and mobile strategists in the audience.

I couldn’t help myself but add captions to this panel photo, as it was pretty lame without a backdrop of any kind. But no, Stephen and Jeremy did not dwell upon their mutual love of London, and Dan may or may not have been thinking about cats… I promise this is completely in jest :)

Thanks also to sponsors BU Entrepreneurs and Common Angels!

For those in the area, hope to see you tonight at the Mobile Monday event celebrating Boston’s Leading Mobile Entrepreneurs. The night starts at 6pm at the BU School of Management at 595 Comm Ave. Our CEO, Stephen Randall, will be speaking, and Wiffiti will be in full effect.

For those of you unfortunately not in the area, you can still join the conversation remotely here.

And LocaModa lays claim to one of them!
(or he lays claim to us??)

In any case… We’re excited to announce that Stephen Randall will be a panelist at the upcoming event put on by Harvard Business School, TechMedia Club, and Mobile Monday Boston. The event will connect Boston’s premier mobile thought leaders with 15 tech and entrepreneurship groups from Bentley, BC, BU, Harvard, HBS, MIT, Northeastern, WPI and Tufts, as well as local tech enthusiasts and Mobile Monday’s 80+ member companies. [More after the jump]

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