The Mobile Peer Award winners of the 2009 edition were announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, this year’s winners were:

• Early stage MobileMonday Community Award – Babajob.com – MobileMonday Bangalore
• Early stage Audience Award – Orbster GmbH – MobileMonday Munich
• Early stage Jury Award – Babajob.com – MobileMonday Bangalore

• Emerging MobileMonday Community Award – fring – MobileMonday Tel Aviv
• Emerging Jury Award – PopCatcher AB – MobileMonday Sweden
• Emerging Audience Award – Unkasoft Advergaming – MobileMonday Madrid

The MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards Barcelona are among the most influential events in the mobile industry and, with over 1000 attendants, the point of reference in startup innovation during the Mobile World Congress.

The only one of these that I’m familiar with is fring, a pretty cool social networking / voip tool.  I’ve got some homework to do getting familiar with the rest of these applications.  If they are all as good as

g, they will be worth the effort.  None of the Mobile Monday Philadelphia applications made the final cut this year, so that’s a good goal for the year.

The finalists presented at the Mobile Peer Awards 2009 in Barcelona:

EARLY-STAGE STARTUPS

• Addict Digital Media – Mobile Monday Buenos Aires
• aka-aki networks GmbH – MobileMonday Berlin
• Babajob.com – MobileMonday Bangalore
• Big in Japan Inc. – MobileMonday Dallas
• bioLocate – MobileMonday Jakarta
• Dial2Do – MobileMonday Dublin
• Fortumo – MobileMonday Estonia
• Mob4Hire – MobileMonday Vancouver
• Orbster GmbH – MobileMonday Munich
• Oxynade – MobileMonday Brussels
• Tellmewhere – MobileMonday Paris
• Xumii – MobileMonday Sydney

EMERGING STARTUPS

• Aradiom – MobileMonday Istanbul
• fring – MobileMonday Tel Aviv
• Getjar Networks – MobileMonday Lithuania
• Keynetik – MobileMonday Washington DC
• Mobintech A/S – MobileMonday Copenhagen
• PopCatcher AB – MobileMonday Sweden
• Soonr – MobileMonday Silicon Valley
• Unkasoft Advergaming – MobileMonday Madrid