This has been a really busy week in Silicon Valley. This week, we saw that debut of two great new events for mobile. Mobile events have been popping up like mushrooms lately. But I really have to give high points to the two events that I attended yesterday.

The first was the Mobile Content and Marketing Expo held on Oct 6-7 in San Jose, CA. It was the first time this event was held and had a few hundred people attend, but the networking was excellent. Quite literally, the first person that I spoke to was Alan Meckler, better known to the world at large as the CEO of Jupitermedia. This conference is Jupitermedia’s event, and he was taking time out of his busy schedule to personally check out how the conference was running. Since he had a flight back to New York to catch in half an hour, he pointed out Jupitermedia’s editor for the mobile apps blog, Todd Ogasawara. All this on the second and last day of the conference. I just wish that I had been able to attend both days.

The conference attendees were some of the most knowledgeable people in mobile working on the cutting edge. The only keynote that I was able to attend was the one given by Skyfire’s CEO, Nitin Bhandari. His idea of monetizing “pinch units” in ad sales as the mobile equivalent of enhanced page views was interesting, but I am not sure how it could be done.

AdMob sponsored a great event for iPhone developers at a restaurant called Astaria in San Mateo. Not only were the talks and demos great, but restaurant managed to feed a standing room only crowd of about 100 developers. A very difficult task indeed. I really hope that this Meetup continues. I always get such great ideas talking to mobile developers who are releasing great apps.

Geogad has just released its new mobile web site. Yes, you asked for it, and now it is here.

Geogad has made your travels even easier. You can now forget about planning your sightseeing in advance. All you need to do is point the mobile browser on your cell phone at the new Geogad mobile web site at http://m.geogad.com. From this new portal, you have access to all of Geogad’s great multimedia tours and tour stops.

Just image that you are walking around the main tourist office of Savannah thinking about paying big bucks to take one of the many guided tours when a fellow traveler tells you about Geogad’s wonderful tours of Savannah that also are totally free. You are sure that there must be some sort of catch. After all, everyone else is paying $20 for their tours. But you are willing to try it.

You get out your trusty phone, tap the key to bring up the mobile browser and type “http://m.geogad.com” into the address bar. Instantly, you are transported to the Geogad mobile site with a list of choices. You see “Tours” and select that one. A list of Geogad’s professionally created tours is displayed, sorted by country and city. You see two tours for Savannah, one for the Eastern Historic District and another for the Western. You select the Eastern tour and view the sample tour.

OK, you are hooked. This is kinda cool. You decide to sign up and try the entire tour. Hey, the tour starts right were you are at the main tourist office. Even better, it includes directions and easy-to-read maps to the next tour stop. You and your trusty mobile phone are now walking through the sunny squares of Savannah as you listen to the history of this quaint old town.

Before you know it, you have reached the end of the tour, overlooking the Savannah River and River Street with its shops and restaurants. Even better, there is another free Geogad tour of the Western Historic District that starts at this location. You are definitely going to take the western tour. Right after lunch on River Street, that is.

And if you happen to hear other travelers wonder about what tour they should take, you will let them know about your latest discovery, the Geogad mobile tour site.

A few days ago, I hinted around about the object of Geogads’s next tour.  If you knew your St. Patrick’s Day trivia then you knew that the southern U.S. city that throws the biggest St. Pat’s party is Savannah, Georgia.  In the case that this surprises you, then you may like to know that Savannah had a huge influx of Irish immigrants during its cotton boom of 1850 and after the Irish Potato Famine of the late 1840’s.  Call it a perfect storm for creating green beer and grits.

If you are in Savannah this weekend for this party that has been called the Redneck Mardi Gras, then enjoy.  But don’t forget that now you can skip those pricy yet geeky tourist buses and explore Savannah in style, your style.  Just download Geogad’s latest Mobile Tour for Savannah’s Western Historic District and see Savannah the way that it was designed to be seen: in a relaxing stroll.

Technorati tags: Geogad,, Mobile Tour, Savannah, Historic District, free MP3 tour, walking tour, travel, entertainment

Geogad is not just a company that creates mobile content for travelers.  Geogad Mobile Tours help travelers learn that there is more to their new favorite destination than just a nice hotel and a few good places to eat.  The history of a place  is the history of a people.  In today’s world, a new generation of travelers can make the world a little safer just by breaking out of their comfort zones and meeting other people on their own terms and their home territory.  Geogad can explain some of the difference that you see and those that you might miss.  Once these differences are explained, we can all understand each other a little better.