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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Elliot: He’s a man from outer space and we’re taking him to his spaceship.

Greg: Well, can’t he just beam up?

Elliot: This is REALITY, Greg.

Today, this “REALITY” got a little weird. Even from E.T.’s vantage point.

Social networking site Bebo (much like Facebook and decently popular among European teens) beamed out a message to the planet Gliese 581C, in hopes of contacting human life. The message was a binary-encoded signal containing personal messages from 501 Bebo users. The most popular messages from a huge pool of Bebo submissions were selected to make the voyage.

The signal is scheduled to reach Gliese 581C (catchy name, eh?) sometime in 2029.
Um… Mark your calendars?

Outerspace lag time notwithstanding, I’m pretty impressed by the endeavor. I mean, I talk about the web outside…. But this is taking things to a whole ‘nother level…

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!

Thanks to Kate from Skyhook Wireless for sending this great pic of the Boston office hovered around a computer to play with Wiffiti!

You guys need an office projector :)

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.

Another app hits the big screen…

Working with the good folks over at ObamaMinute, we’ve launched Obama Wiffiti in Times Square!

This will be running 24/7 through the election, so crank up your texting to show your support! And, if that’s the way ya swing, head on over to ObamaMinute and register to be part of “An Obama Minute” on Monday, October 6th at noon. They’ve been a wonderful group to work with!

You can also embed this screen into your own blog or website and spread the love (it’s just a quick copy/paste of code at the bottom, just like you’re embedding a YouTube vid).

As you can see, Steve King, our VP Sales, is in NYC today and wasted little time making his presence known… :)

A look at the Ecast booth live from the floor of AMOA… Check out Wiffiti on the EQ device!

While a few of our business folks headed to the AMOA show down in Vegas, CEO Stephen Randall gave a talk at the Brand Activation Summit in NYC yesterday. Sponsored by the Strategy Institute, the day focused on digital out-of-home media, a perfect stage for Stephen to do his thang.

One strange thing… When Stephen asked the audience how many people were representing brands/agencies, ONE person out of 150+ raised his hand! The rest were network folks. Remember… this is at the BRAND Activation Summit. Are we still all talking to ourselves here?

For those interested, check out the slideshow of the presentation (even though SlideShare doesn’t support animation…grrrrr).

And if you’re interested in hearing more where that came from, follow Stephen on twitter!

Here’s a quick Twitter screengrab I took right after the McCain announcement this morning (they were coming in hundreds per minute on my feed):

Clearly the Palin pick is off-the-charts in terms of tweet potential.

Want to put those tweets in context? Take a peek at Loca’s new PoliChat app! (pic in post below)

And if you’ll be at the RNC this weekend, make sure to look for Wiffiti at the Outburst Forum!

You’ll pull up tweet after tweet after tweet…
About Sarah Palin.
(Hey, figured I’d put a Mahalo link in there to kowtow to Jason Calacanis while I’m at it.)

This sure makes things iiiinteresting…

Shoot your Wiffiti thoughts to our new PoliChat app here in the office! Just click on the link to pull up the screen in your browser and participate remotely.

It’s live on the loca site as well!