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UPDATE: The deadline for submissions is extended to today. It's also an excellent opportunity for all the super-cool personalization and content discovery companies to shine!

I know and cover many of you on MSG - and encourage you to get involved. They've been dubbed the 'Oscars of the mobile world' – and the title fits. The Meffys (Mobile Entertainment Awards) are indeed the mobile industry's recognized benchmark for measuring success and rewarding innovation. That's why MSG is particularly proud to be a media partner and why I am honored the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has asked

Dear friends and colleagues including Ajit Jaokar (mobile authority and blogger at Open Gardens) and Mack McKelvey (Senior Vice President of Marketing, Millennial Media) have tweeted and

Just tying up loose ends and pinning down last interviews before I'm off to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress (MWC). If you haven't booked a video interview with me or Michelle Sklar, then best to start planning for CTIA in March because all the slots (over 200!) for coverage are full.

However, there are some limited sponsorship opportunities available allowing companies placement through in-video overlay, logos and other promotion formats. It's an excellent way to reach an audience of over 1 million viewers. (All MWC interviews will be aired on bnetTV’s website, as well as over 150 other web and social media sites (including MSG), that are part of bnetTV's larger partner network.

Editor's note: A range of content discovery issues continue to plague mobile operators and content companies on-portal. Add the explosion of content off-portal and the advance of applications stores and finding (and buying) what we like can be like looking for a proverbial needle in hay stack.

The explosion in app stores and off-portal browsing are changing all the rules, pushing content discovery (and the search for solutions to make finding stuff easier) to the top of the agenda. This came across in my own on-going research (dating back to 2005) and the industry-first report I wrote on the topic at the time, aptly titled Mobile Search & Content Discovery.

Back then content owners and mobile operators alike complained about content discovery shortcomings, ones that no mobile search services could solve for a myriad of reasons I outlined during my recent mobile search masterclass.

Fast forward to (almost) 2010, and it's shaping up to be an exciting time indeed, with recommenders (finally) taking center stage. Industry interest is high and this has prompted

Regular readers will recall that I am sharply focused on tools/technologies and companies providing personalization and recommendations solutions to mobile operators and content owners. My passion stems from my own ongoing research into content discovery and – more recently – work on a new report on mobile personalization and recommendation. (If you are a company in this space, then I invite you to contact me directly.)