Day two of the conference and the hoards have arrived.  Monday and its 40K visitors felt empty by comparison.

Several diamonds in the rough (by rough I mean dozens of consultancies / me-too LBS applications / equipment testing products / traditional telco equipment OEMs / etc), though you really have to put in some miles to find them (both in terms of footsteps and conversations).

A pleasant alternative was the investor / operator "Speed Dating" session that brought the 50 Mobile Innovation finalists to a collection of investors and mobile operators for 5 minute rapid fire discussions.  Not a great deal of time to form a qualified opinion, but certainly enough to learn which CEOs have perfected the art of the elevator pitch - some of which were brilliant.

Generally a great collection of private companies from across the ecosystem.  Peter mentioned all the category winners in his last posting (truly impressive businesses), so here are a few others that also captured some interest.

Mobile Intelligence Solutions:  Music categorization algorithm that aides music discovery...enabling mobile operators to identify and promote great, but unknown bands through their music portals.

Media Net:  Downloadable language translation application that operates on most devices and is an absolute must-have tool before my next trip overseas - at least if I'm destined for a local speaking one of their 25 supported languages.

PixSense:  White label personal media storage / retrival service that automatically captures all mobile media and synchronizes to carrier portals / PCs / social network sites /etc. - effectively leveraging the proliferation of mobile generated content into a new service offering for mobile operators.