As mobile web usage increases, meeting visitors need real time, updated information on a busy schedule that may be accessible from mobile devices. Mobile Roadie, a start up that helps develops iPhone apps, has developed the official iPhone app for LeWeb, the leading EU technology meeting arranged by French businessman and Seesmic founder, Loic Le Meur, Geraldine.
LeWeb 2009 is about to occur the week after next in Paris, France. The LeWeb App, which is free, basically puts the whole meeting in the pockets of show visitors and lets anyone that isn't attending the meeting watch a live stream of the events from their iPhones. The LeWeb App packs in the necessities for visitors, speakers, and participators, including an in depth show schedule and agenda, spokesperson bios, and directions. To help folks network at the show, the app contains an inventory of show visitors with a link to their Twitter profiles.
The application also supports Facebook Connect and Twitter integration, so all comments and Tweets can be blasted back out to Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag for LeWeb. And the app features push notifications so directors can send alerts and updates simply to iPhone users.
Mobile Roadie has partnered with Ustream to enable iPhone users to look at LeWeb live within its own app. For the moment, Mobile Roadie only offers iPhone apps but will shortly offer the facility to develop apps for the Andoid in Jan. The great thing about Mobile Roadie's platform is that it offers a dead easy mostly-automated system to build apps and have them posted to Apple's App Store in as little as a week. Launched early on in the year, the start up develops mobile apps for other meetings, events, and venues, as well as musicians, sportsmen, flesh pressers, and other celebrities.
