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Exciting news: Xumii has been acquired by Myriad Group (SIX:MYRN). We are now part of Europe’s largest mobile technology business with software in more than 2 billion phones.

This is great for Xumii as it means we can take our mobile social networking platform to the next level. And it’s a great win for Australian mobile technology.

Here’s the press release and some of the blogosphere coverage: GigaOM and TechCrunch and VentureBeat.

Today I spent an enjoyable couple of hours at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), learning about Multi Platform Content, and talking about Mobile Social Technology & Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG).

We examined some emerging mobile social technologies, and how they can enable new forms of story-telling. And we shared my personal journey into a Star Trek Alternate Reality Game which has so far involved me sending pictures of sheep to strangers in Paris, and which explains my recent cryptic Twitter and Facebook status updates. Well some of them anyway.

The slide deck is embedded below, and contains all the links for those of you who asked.

[Update 3 June 2009] OMG! I was chosen as one of the five finalists in the game. Here’s a video of Leonard Nimoy putting my name into the hat to pick the winner.

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We’re going to DEMOfall ‘08, how exciting! Stand 61.

Today Xumii moved out of stealth mode and into public beta, with integration to Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Google Chat, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and Flickr on over 100 different devices.

Xumii is unveiled today at the Under the Radar conference in Mountain View. “Take all your contacts from your social networks with you — on your phone!”

Here’s Jennifer on stage:

Today we launched Xumii in private beta.

Xumii is an open mobile social messaging platform. More soon..!

Today I’m on the career cusp. After two fantastic years of looking after digital innovation at Lonely Planet, the time has come to move on to a new exciting challenge.

Here begins my uiActive journey. Stay tuned…