Many of you may of already noticed Mobbler, the ever so popular last.fm Music Scrobbler now being available in the Ovi Store. 

I know that our very good friend Clinton Jeff, of ZOMGitsCJ noticed it, and wrote about it on his blog, and now we have the story behind how Mobbler made it to the Ovi Store, and is quite a success story. Below is a qute from Rod Burns from Symbian Horizon.

I wanted to highlight a real success story for the Symbian Horizon program. The Mobbler application (‘Mobbler – A Last.fm Radio Player and Scrobbler for Symbian’), is open source, free and developed by a community of volunteers. The application is already popular as an unsigned download but access to Symbian Signed and publishing in Ovi is a barrier because of their non-commercial status.

This limits the reach that they have. We tested and signed Mobbler through the Horizon program and published it on the Ovi store this week.

In the first 48 hours of being published the application has been downloaded almost 1500 times from all over the world including 116 in India, and downloads in unexpected countries like Tajikistan and Azerbaijan.

This is a great achievement and really shows why the Horizon publishing program is so worthwhile. We have not only made the guys at Mobbler happy but we now have a fantastic Last.fm player for Symbian which we can shout about in the same way Apple do about their third party applications. But even better, this one was created through the collaboration of our community.

The work does not stop here though and we hope to be able to provide a route to market for Mobbler in China through our relationship with China Mobile.

You can find Mobbler, in Ovi Store here, or simply fire up Ovi Store on your Nokia handset, and either search for Mobbler, or checkout new items. Although the application is free, you will need a last.fm account, which is also free depending where you are in the world, so please checkout the last.fm terms here.

This long awaited activity manager combines contacts, calendar and todos in a user friendly interface, giving you a more satisfying way to manage your life's activities.  DreamLife is visual, intuitive and clever, designed for users of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung or LG smartphones running Symbian S60.

Whether you are a small business owner, a professional or a parent, you will find DreamLife's features effective for organising and managing your busy schedule and network of contacts or that of your family's.  DreamLife's key benefits include:

• Easy to distinguish individual activities, conflicts, and free time slots from the innovative planner view
• Instant overview of your activities including details of appointments, todos, reminders, and anniversaries as well as event categories, status and attendees at a glance
• Organise your contacts and activities in a meaningful way using hierarchical categories
• Plan in the context of your day's activities while you enter new entries via the unique 2-pane activity editor
• Instant search of your contacts using global find, key match, sort or a combination
• View and use all your contact's information and notes on one screen, thanks to business card layout
• Powerful links between calendar and contacts let you attach and then jump to a contact from a calendar entry; you can also create new activities for contacts directly from the contacts list

More details, including download information can be found over at the DreamLife website here.

Thanks to Teo of Symbian Freak for the heads up.