After Italy, we’re going now to London! Big Ben, The royal’s family, Covent Garden, you know that right? Unfortunately we’re not going there for shopping or enjoying English food :) But something more interesting: LeWeb13 London! After LeWeb in Paris last year, when we introduced you the Beta version. We’re going back for more adventures! So if you’re looking forward to seeing us, you know where we will be ;) We will tell you more during our journey! See ya guys!

As you know, part of the team went to Italy for the big students contest ! They just came back and after 3 days, 3 cities, 571 kilometers, 2 universities, 3 presentations, almost 23 hours in the transportations, we’re going to tell you everything! Let’s start at the beginning!

Hi there ! My name is Méryl and I just joined the GoodBarber’s team. Graduated from an Advertising and Communication school in Paris named ISCOM, I got a job at Kassius’s agency (WPP group) after my final internship. I was Digital Project Manager in this agency during one year and a half. After this job, I decided to realise my dream and go to the american west coast to learn english, discover California and see the Silicon Valley ;)

Hey Italian Students! The GoodBarber team comes to meet you next week, to present our great summer internship recruitment program :) We'll host a big contest in Florence on Monday May 20, and we'll meet students of Napoli area on Tuesday May 21 and Wednesday May 22. The whole operation is described on our Students page.

Discover our trip to the MWC 2013!

I spent much of my time during the MWC to discuss with Ad Networks, with the intention to improve GoodBarber's ads features.   My feeling is that most of these services are meta Ad Networks. They work with many Ad Servers and through their algorithms, they take care to provide maximum gain to their customers.   I can quote Smaato , InMobi , Adfonic and the very friendly people of Ad4Screen as services that have caught my attention.   Our Holy Grail is the generic implementation of an Ad Server in GoodBarber, this trend is perfect for us :-) Implementing the SDK of one of the services mentioned above allows GoodBarber to be compliant with all the ad servers managed by this service.   I also discovered AirPush , a mobile Ad Network focused only on Android which has the ability to send ads by Push. I found it quite original.   A word for a service that deserves a mention: going around these Ad Networks, I stumbled upon Crittercism , a bug tracker that really attracted me. We will soon use this tool, allowing us to stay aware of the stability of our applications and constantly improve their quality :-)

Early in the morning, it was time for me to go to hang around in the Hall 3, a hall in which manufacturers like Samsung, LG or Nokia have great presence. You may also find mobile actors like IBM, or T-mobile, or others that you won't necessary think about, like Ford. The first one when you go down to that hall is Samsung, you really can't miss it, it's a really huge booth ! To deal with the desappointment generated by the non-official release of the Galaxy S4 (and yes it was really disappointing for us), Samsung puts a strong focus on their new tablet :  the Galaxy Note 8.0, presented at the MWC. The other highlight by Samsung was the Samsung Home Sync, a box that allows to share content between all Samsung devices authorized in the area.  Not so much devices news, this year is the year of Cloud ! It is the master key !

Today I left the GoodBarber booth to visit others halls of the MWC. It's so large... Just spent 2 hours to visit 1 and a half hall ! What did I see? Mobile phones (of course), tablets, TVs, presentations, docking stations, beautiful hostesses, things I don't care, and many other things... Oh... I also finally saw a 3D printer in the Nokia booth used to make phone covers. Great. At the end I took a look at the Sony booth. It was my favorite one (I always had a soft spot for this brand...). Stop speaking. Let's show the photos.

Our Interview at MWC 2013.

Very busy day 2 at Mobile World Congress. Day 2 and day 3 are said to be the most intense of the event ... and, well, this is true. We met a lot of people today : VCs, potential partners, complementary services and of course, leads :) Not so much time to give you a feedback of what's hot in MWC2013, but we'll try tomorrow.

Here we are, the Mobile World Congress began this morning. We met a lot of interesting people today! The team who took the boat yesterday evening from Ajaccio arrived in the late afternoon due to difficult weather conditions. But everyone is here now, and really excited! Tomorrow, we'll take a little more time to make an entire tour of the event, and prepare more focused blog posts. We'll focus on monetization, as we met a lot of ad networks at MWC, and on new devices. We'll try to take some more general pictures of the entire event. To follow us out of this blog, you can find us on Flickr , on Instagram (@goodbarber ), on Twitter (@goodbarber ) and on our Facebook  page :)  See you tomorrow !

Here we are! At last, we managed to get to Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress! Not an easy task, due to the bad weather :/ For this trip, we splitted our team in two. Jerome and I took the plane this morning from Ajaccio by Lyon. Sebastien, Laurent, Jim & Mathieu took the boat this evenning to Marseille, and will drive tomorrow morning to BCN. There was snow this morning in Ajaccio, Corsica, and we were not sure that the plane could take off. The flight has been delayed more than two hours, but eventually everything went fine. We took our connecting flight in Lyon, and, we got to BCN :) This year, the event sounds awesone, and the new venue, Fira Gran Via, is far bigger than Fira Montjuic where it took place last years. The GoodBarber booth is awesome too! Enjoy some pictures :) If you are heading to MWC this year, come to say hello in Hall 5, French Pavillon, Booth 5I100/55.

Next week will be a big week for our team. For the third time, we are going to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It is a major event for the Mobile industry, from manufacturers to soft editors like us. It is held every year in February. For this edition, we have decided to make it the event of the year for GoodBarber. We will lauch officially GoodBarber 2 during the event. A lot of you have helped us with their feedbacks during the beta. Time has come to publish Beautiful Apps in the stores :) This year, we'll have a booth at the MWC. Several members of the team will be there : Jérôme , Dominique , Sébastien , Laurent , Jim and Mathieu ! Come to say hi if you are nearby. You can meet us Hall 5, Stand 5I100/55

Native of Quenza, a small village in southern Corsica, I decided to join the GoodBarber Beautiful Team, to be a part of the Android side of the project.   Trained at ENSEA (Cergy) in electronics engineering, I decided to start my career with GoodBarber in order to specialize myself on Google's mobile platform.   For the time being, I'm quickly acquiring the basics of native apps development. In a few days, I will be ready to start working on my first piece of code on GoodBarber for Android. I am eagger to join the team actually working on it. Time has come to create Beautiful Apps for Android too :)

All the GoodBarber team was thrilled Wednesday morning when we brought the On'R award back at CampusPlex in Ajaccio.   Again, everybody thanks Philippe & Frédéric from Le Radio show!   You'll see that GoodBarber will be soon the best tool ever to create Beautiful Apps for radio stations :)

Yesterday, we had the suprise to discover that we was "nominés" for the On'R awards, in the "Innovative Service" category.   We won it this morning !   We would like to thank very much Philippe Chapot , Frédéric Brulhatour and the On'R awards' jury at Le Radio show . It's a great encouragement.   We came to this show to discover the radio world, and to imagine new features for GoodBarber.   We have now a big, big to-do list, and you will soon hear about it :)

Since this morning, we have met a lot of people. Each time, they give us great ideas to improve GoodBarber. If it's true that we are not experts of the radio ecosystem, there are great chance that will become killers and the end of Le Radio! Just one evidence: we are "nominé" for the On'R awards.  Here are some pictures of Le Radio :)

Today was the first day of LeRadio show in Paris, where we are exhibiting the brand new GoodBarber until Tuesday. Here are some pictures of Jerome & Dominique on the GoodBarber booth :)

Today, we are at Radio Zest, in Paris. Radio Zest is a conference that is held before LeRadio show, where we'll have a booth until Tuesday. At Radio Zest, Jerome Granados presented how a beautiful app can help you to target a larger audience for your radio station in 5 simple ideas. Here are his slides :)

We wish you a happy new year. As we say in Corsican: "Pace è Salute", standing for "Peace and Health" Let's make Beautiful Apps ... and more in 2013 It's just the beginning :)

Announced by Jerome in his previous note, GoodBarber is almost ready to release its version 2. So what's best to announce and introduce it than participating in the essential annual meeting for companies and start-up of the web, Web '12. For those who do not know this event, Web'12 is three days of conference, demonstrations and meetings with giants such as Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google, ect. It's also where tomorrow's Internet is imagined. You understand that it is a very important event that we absolutely wanted to be part of.

Mobiles Magazine regularly publishes its reference guide for the best iPhone apps. The latest issue recognizes 7 of GoodBarber’s own applications.

In recent months, GoodBarber has been working closely with Xtone, a company from Tokyo that specializes in the design, development, content operation, and content managing systems for the web and mobiles. Xtone and its sister company Gaps Mobile use GoodBarber to launch many Japanese companies’ mobile apps.

On Thursday, July 5th, we look forward to seeing you in Paris for GoodBarber Café. This is an opportunity to meet face-to-face and to discuss mobiles while having breakfast.