The mobile panel at LSS ’09 has now moved to 11.40am and we also have a different line up of panelists – please see below.

Mobile – The Future of Apps is Bright
This panel is all about apps – in particular social and local apps (and some mapping which is of course a key part of local)… Phones started out as social devices – we made voice calls. Then we had SMS (text) and then email (think Blackberry). Now we have smart phones, iPhones and Gphones – personal mobile devices. What does the present and future hold for “local social” on Mobile? How does the rise of the iPhone and emergence of Android change the game? We will examine the fast growth of and impact of applications (and app stores). We may also see some wicked demos, discuss new business models and view what an ‘augmented’ real local world might look like.
Moderator: Greg Sterling, Internet/Mobile Analyst
Panel/Demos:

• Claudia  Poepperl, Founder & CEO at adaffix/Yellix
• James Brown, CTO Cloudmade
• Miriam Warren, Regional Director Yelp
• Rob Hinchcliffe, UK Community Manager Qype.com

Our new panelist from Qype is Rob – here’s his bio:

Rob Hinchcliffe has been messing about on the internet since the mid-90s. In 2003 he founded the capital-centric blog Londonist, which he edited for two years. In that time Londonist became one of the most widely read blogs in the country, was nominated for a number of awards (and even won a couple), and was voted one of the top 10 most influential blogs in the UK. Rob left Londonist in 2006 to take over as Editor of Yahoo UK News, but after 18 months he decided it was time to get back to the excitement of the startup environment and joined the user-generated reviews site Qype.com where he works as their UK Community Manager.