Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2008 FINALISTS!

108 companies participated in the Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2008 to win a free trip to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and other fantastic prizes.

Among them: PageOnce, Buzzd, Digital Chocolate, Fring, Nimbuzz, Qeep, Smule, SoonR, Tapulous and many more.

The final judging of the Smaato Award jury has already passed after the INmobile community voted their 11 finalists. In the final voting the jury selected DialPlus as the the winner 2008 out of these companies (in alphabetical order):

Please click on the screen shots to see their profile and award entry on vator.tv.

aka'aki is social networking.

But not as we know it from a pc at home or at work. aka'aki brings social networking to where it is much more useful: out to the streets, in clubs, on campus - to where real life is happening!

The service can be used with almost every mobile phone. It informs the user about mutual friends and interests of other members nearby, in the same area or the same city. With aka-kai there are exciting discoveries waiting for you everywhere!

Buzzd is a location-sensitive city guide and social network on the mobile device.

"Your city, in real time," buzzd allows consumers to get up-to-the minute information on know what's happening at any venue right now, rate events and connect with friends and other people in the area.

Buzzd partners with carriers and content providers such as Citysearch, Flavorpill, Time Out, Zagat and many more.

DialPlus is a San Diego, California based company setting out to change the definition of a phone call by automatically showing visual information from the web for a phone number before, during and after the call.

DialPlus will become the de facto standard for translating a phone number in to visual information, enabling any type of device that can make a phone call, has a display and has internet connectivity.

FISHLABS is one of the leading developers and publishers of high quality mobile 3D games. FISHLABS is responsible for the development of more than 15 high-end mobile games and employs a team of 30 people at the company's headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. FISHLABS portfolio of mobile games includes numerous award-winning original IPs, such as Galaxy on Fire™, DEEP™ or Blades & Magic™, as well as AAA brands for well-known business partners, such as V-Rally® 3D for Glu, Star Wars™ – Imperial Ace 3D for THQ or Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam™ for Infospace (Activison license) and most recently Gladiator™.

Fring is a mobile social community.

Take all your instant messaging buddies mobile with fring and stay available while on the go! Make free mobile calls, live chat, transfer files & enjoy your mobile experience with your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP; and chat with Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM® buddies using your handset’s internet connect connection rather than costly cellular airtime minutes, see who’s online before dialling with contact availability indicators, and view all contacts from one, integrated & searchable buddy list.

FunkySexyCool (FSC) is a global mobile-based social dating community providing members with a fast, fun and easy to meet new people, connect with friends, and discover and share new interests.

With hundreds of thousands of registered members, FSC is quickly becoming the premium global mobile social community for meeting new people.

The Peperoni Mobile & Internet Software GmbH, based in Hagen, Germany that was founded in year 2001 develops and provides a platform for user generated content (mobile web 2.0).
As pioneer and inventor of “mobile site building”, the company offers a variety of entertainment services.

With round about a half billion page impressions and about 10 million unique visitors per month, peperonity.com is one of the world leader counting by page views in the mobile web. More than 1.000.000 users have designed approx. 5 million individual sites.

Qeep is produced and distributed by BLUE LION mobile GmbH, a privately held company founded in 2006 by former executives of T-Mobile International and Nintendo.

Based in Cologne, Germany, BLUE LION mobile GmbH is a pioneer in the field of interactive mobile applications.

Skout is a mobile, real-time, location-based dating platform that enables people to meet singles in their vicinity by chatting and sharing photos and other user-generated content.

Taking advantage of a person's location and the power of social networking, Skout delivers an easy way to make new acquaintances on the go. Whether at a conference, a bar in a city, a college campus, or a sporting event -- people of similar interests can use Skout to find love and communicate with each other.

TourSpot is developing a mobile application for the travel and tourism industry.

Our mission is to enhance self-guided walking tours by leveraging the Internet and unique user interfaces of today’s smart phone devices.

TourSpot intends to take advantage of interactive features and social networking concepts and integrate them to create a new type of walking tour.

Vayyoo Inc. makes vPost, the newest medium in mobile communication.

vPost allows users to capture & combine Pictures, Video, Audio, Text, GPS, and Forms. vPost challenges mobile users and businesses to optimize redundant processes through optimized data-capture, collaboration, and compliance.