On of the pluses about attending MobileMonday last night was that I got a chance to signup for the early bird discount for Mobile Beat, even though the deadline was back in June. If you have not heard of Mobile Beat, it is a conference being put together by TechCrunch and PlugAndPlay on the mobile industry. I am sure that we can expect many more conferences from both groups in the future.

I am looking forward to the conference, but I am a little wary. I am one of these people who actually check what I am agreeing to  before I sign up for a service. When I  clicked on the “Terms and Conditions” link for this conference’s registration, which was powered by their chosen service of Amiando, I was sent to a great looking Terms and Conditions page. At least I think it was a Terms and Conditions page. It was titled “Informationen zum Fernabsatz und zum Vertragsschluss im elektronischen Geschäftsverkehr” and was completely in German.

So I might have registered for a conference, or I might be the newest investor and/or employee of TechCrunch. Until my German improves, I will not know for certain.

Yesterday I attended MobileMonday. It is a really great venue to find out the latest and greatest on the mobile web space. It is always packed, and last night was no exception.

Often the meeting focuses on a new mobile gadget or application. Last night, the focus was pulled back a little further to provide a bigger picture of the mobile web and mobile ad area. But we could not completely escape seeing new apps. AdMob is about to open beta testing on a new mobile analytics package. It seems very similar to the look and feel of Google Analytics but of course is focused just on the mobile area. Instead of getting a report of which browsers your users are using on your site, you can find out which carriers and which mobile devices they are using. Combine this feature rich data with a slick interface and you get a mobile marketer’s dream. Combine it with the price, FREE, and you get an easy way for companies to investigate how useful the mobile web is for them.The reason that it is free is that it will give AdMobs the best source of valuable data into the mobile ad market, which is predicted to be worth billions.

The most interesting point from the AdMob’s presentation is that AdMob is currently used on 5500 mobile sites. I would love to know what percentage this is of all mobile sites. If anyone out there has an estimate, let me know.

The promise of AdMob’s Analytics is great, but Opera presented their measured data on the state of the mobile web. This includes breakdowns on most popular websites across specific countries and how quickly number of users are growing. One thing that I found interesting was that the average user is viewing 202 pages per month and that WAP sites, which were never very popular, are becoming a smaller percentage of the number of sites being visited.