As some of you might know, we ran a lucky draw for a free ticket to UnConference 2009 on the SG Malls application over the past 2 weeks. The draw was conducted by generating a random number and matched to the relevant entrant.

And the winner is….
Name: Ms Loo
Mobile (last 4 digits): 4282

For all other contestants, do still come for UnConference 2009. Click here to get a 20% discount off of the UnConference2009 ticket. Hope to see you there!

2359 Media is chosen as one of the start-ups to have the opportunity to pitch on stage during UnConference 2009. The pitching session will start at 2:40pm, and we will be the 2nd to pitch. Do come to UnConference 2009 to see us and the other exciting start-ups.

UnConference 2009
The unConference is Southeast Asia’s #1 participant-driven, startup-focused event for the web industry. Modeled after Silicon Valley culture, the event attracts industry thought leaders, entrepreneurs, developers and professionals from around Asia. The highlight of unConference is the product-demo segment: where startup founders seek to impress investors and the audience with their latest innovations. A number of our past unConference product-demo alumni have gone on to be nominated in BusinessWeek’s annual Top 25 Asia Entrepreneurs for both 2007 and 2008.

At the Meet-the-Techgoondus event, the team was pleased to have met up with Illka Gobius who writes for the WebInTravel.com blog. With her experience in the travel and hospitality industry, we discussed in some depth about the possible applications of SGMalls in enhancing a tourist’s experience while traveling in Singapore.

Post event, Illka wrote the following about 2359 Media in her news release on the event:

“2359Media.com truly makes use of open platform technology on smartphones and provides a tremendous targeted advertising opportunity for those in travel and hospitality. … The commercial advantage of this highly targeted advertising opportunity that is geo-proximity based. It provides a rich media experience for making shopping decisions. The electronic coupon offers are collected by the advertiser which, when collated give valuable return on investment information. It also allows smaller retailers to compete effectively with larger, known brands.”

On March 10 2009, the folks at the Singapore Technology blog, Techgoondu.com, organised an event named “Meet The Techgoondus”, aimed at helping tech start-ups gain visibility on the traditional media by bringing together the two at the event.

With Hong Ting being a Techgoondu reader, 2359 Media signed up for the event, and for the very first time, presented about the huge potential of Mobile Advertising given that the confluence of factors pointing towards endless possibilities. Wenhan too presented about SG Malls, our iPhone application, and the additional features that are to be released in the near future.

Slides of the presentation are embedded here: