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• Nokia N900 Trailing in the 2009 Engadget Awards

  Mark Guim

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:55 am

  There’s still plenty of time, but after 4 days of voting, the Nokia N900 is losing badly to the iPhone 3GS in 2 categories of the 2009 Engadget Awards. Do you think the N900 is worthy to grab the titles Smartphone of the Year or Gadget of the Year? Vote now! Nokia also snagged a nomination for the Booklet 3G in the Netbook of the Year category. I think they should win all the 3 categories, but this fanboy and Nokia blogger may be biased. You can vote until February 20th 11:59PM EDT. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Conversations on Nokia N900 Adds Support for Facebook…

• Conversations on Nokia N900 Adds Support for Facebook Chat, AIM, MSN & More With Extra Protocol Plugins

  Mark Guim

  5 Feb 2010 | 9:28 am

  This is big! The latest version of Extra Protocol Plugins for Conversations and Contacts on the Nokia N900 adds support for Facebook chat, AIM, MSN, and more. The integration of instant messaging within the contacts book on the N900 is already excellent, but the addition of more services make the N900 an even more powerful messaging device. After installation, you can go to Settings – VoIP and IM accounts to add your accounts. All your IM buddies will show up in the Contacts book, but you can view them by groups, too. You can merge your contacts so that you have all your friends’…

• Nokia N97 & N97 Mini’s Latest Firmware Hacked

  Mark Guim

  4 Feb 2010 | 10:53 pm

  Just a few days after its release, the latest firmwares on the Nokia N97 and N97 mini (v11, v20, or v21) got hacked by the group, PNHT. Hacking enables users to install unsigned applications without worrying about certificate files. This is a scene from the Symbian community that I’m not too familiar with. I suggest following these guides with caution because you may brick your devices. Guide: How to hack the Nokia N97 v20/ v21 Guide: How to hack the Nokia N97 Mini v11 Thanks Ying. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Thumbs Up to Nokia’s Ovi StoreNokia N97 and Nokia…

• Nokia’s Ovi Store Updated With New Content Sorting (Excludes Maemo)

  Mark Guim

  3 Feb 2010 | 11:47 pm

  The Nokia Ovi Store team rolled out an update on Thursday to provide faster access to relevant content with new content sorting for the store. This seems to apply to S60 devices only like the Nokia N97 mini because I do not see the changes on the Nokia N900. The update is available through a prompt when opening the Ovi Store. From the team, Our focus with this release is simple: to provide you a faster way to sort through the Store content catalog. Starting with this new release, you will notice the sorting options as you navigate through the store. These sorting options, “Top Free”,…

• Nokia C5 Leaked – Is Codename Mystic Part of the C series?

  Mark Guim

  3 Feb 2010 | 1:56 pm

  Daily Mobile just published some photos of an unannounced device called the Nokia C5. They expect it to be revealed during Mobile World Congress in less than 2 weeks. It runs Symbian S60v3 FP2 with a 2.2in screen. These photos of the C5 also seem to legitimize the leaked photos of another phone in question codenamed ‘Mystic.’ This seems to be a mid-level phone, so I don’t expect it to be priced so high. Last month, we also discovered a Qwerty device codenamed Mystic. It runs S60v3 and seems to share a similar look with the C5. Let’s all hope these aren’t the only…

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• Nokia Messaging for Social Networks Beta, Update February 2010

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:38 am

  In the February 2010 Update: S40 support, bug fixes to improve client performance, and minor feature enhancements: Facebook – Upload photos to selected albumFacebook – Timestamp improvementTwitter – Direct message Twitter – Post with LocationTwitter – View  profile of people you are following and posted tweetsTwitter – View own profile and posted tweetsTwitter – Mark as FavoriteLearn more and download: Nokia Messaging for Social Networks Beta

• Beta Labs contributor of the month, January 2010: luisfelipeperez

  5 Feb 2010 | 3:39 am

  Written by Tommi Vilkamo, Manager of Nokia Beta LabsOnce again, it is time to nominate the Beta Labs Contributor of the Month. This time, we sorted the list of registered Beta Labs users - more than 140000 already - in terms of how many of their comments had been marked as "helpful" by the community and "starred" by the Nokia staff. Among the leaderboard list (we won't show this in public because this is not a competition), there were mostly usual suspects. Thanks for sticking around, truly appreciated! But also, there were some new friends, including our new winner,…

• Introducing Nokia Diagnostics, an experimental troubleshooting application

  3 Feb 2010 | 11:26 pm

  Written by Ravi Sarma We are pleased to present to you a new experimental application called Nokia Diagnostics. Our intention is to create a solution for helping millions of Nokia users diagnose, troubleshoot, and configure their devices with ease on their own. We believe that exposing this idea to the Beta Labs community and sharing this application prototype would help us realise just that.With Nokia Diagnostics, you can diagnose, troubleshoot and configure your device using five different tests:Network Coverage test. You can get all the network related information and detect offline status…

• Introducing Nokia Custom Dictionary for predictive text

  31 Jan 2010 | 11:59 pm

  Written by Sethu Pillai, Nokia Custom Dictionary teamWe are pleased to publish Nokia Custom Dictionary on Beta Labs to share with the community and gather feedback. We designed this experimental application to address the wish that many S60 users have had: to be able to edit the list of words used by the phone for text prediction and transfer it between phones. Nokia Custom Dictionary does exactly that, and we’ve also given you the chance to import words from a text file.  This means you can quickly “teach” your phone commonly used words or even create specific word lists to…

• Nokia Ovi Suite 2.1 Beta updated

  29 Jan 2010 | 5:14 am

  Written by Samuli Ylinen from Nokia Ovi Suite teamHi and thanks for continuing support for Nokia Ovi Suite 2.1 Beta testing. We’ve processed lots of feedback coming from you, categorized those to different areas, studied and fixed many errors, added many new ideas into backlog. Now we’re ready to give you updated Nokia Ovi Suite 2.1 Beta release, where many of reported error reports are fixed. Many of your suggestions are under evaluation by our team for future Nokia Ovi Suite releases.Fixed for Thunderbird 3.0 support, now you can choose Thunderbird 3.0 for contacts sync in Nokia Ovi…

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• Forum Nokia Podcasts: Episode 033 - Discussion with Ian Smith, SVP of Fizwoz.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:49 am

  In this episode, I-magine Media’s Doug Wolens speaks with Ian Smith, the founder and Senior Vice President of Fizwoz.com, a premier online marketplace for mobile media. During their conversation, Ian explains what mobile technology means to him, and how Fizwoz will change how consumers use their mobile devices. What is the end result? Allowing consumers to make money from the pictures they take using their mobile devices, such as the Nokia N900 mobile computer. Listen Now Download MP3

• How to develop Flash Lite enabled WRT widgets with Aptana and FDT

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:24 am

  I've published a couple of articles explaining how to setup a single integrated environment that allows to develop Web Runtime widgets with Flash Lite content. The environment is based on Eclipse and three different plugins: Aptana Nokia Web Runtime plugin for Aptana FDT The articles explain the complete setup process, and show how to develop a simple Flash Lite enabled widget: Web Runtime and Flash Lite integrated development on Eclipse  How to use FDT and Aptana to create a Flash Lite enabled WRT widget

• Guarana UI video from INdT

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:30 pm

• Programming the Mobile Web, the book available

  5 Feb 2010 | 1:19 pm

  I'm happy to announce the availability of my upcoming new book, "Programming the Mobile Web" from O'Reilly. It is available now in Rough Cuts version (online) open for feedback for the final version to be printed in a couple of months. The book covers the mobile web as a whole with all possible platforms (including Nokia's platforms), compatibility and technologies. Today, there is available more than 50% of the book and more content will be updated automatically. Rough Cuts and preorder: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807795 The Table of Contents: The Mobile Jungle Mobile…

• Reusing the N97 memory reorganizer

  5 Feb 2010 | 8:45 am

  Many people have found via Software Update there is a nice little application called Memory Reorganizer that recovers some of the scarce memory on the N97's C drive. The side affect of running this once is that the app will uninstall itself when its finished doing its magic job of recovering your memory... Unfortunately if you  are like me and install lots of apps, memory soon runs out and this little app seems to clean it all up nicely.   Here the tip: a) If you go to the Application Installer and remove the "Reorganizer uninstall" application. This will then allow you to…

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• tlkng wth tnkgrl #22

  matthew bennett

  27 Jan 2010 | 9:16 am

  In this episode, we cover Android hacking, check out the Palm Pixi Plus, Google’s Nexus One, and … More! Thanks to tnkgrl of tnkgrl Mobile for participating. And Extra Thanks goes to Tony of Fone Frenzy for the editing and greenscreen effects. Thanks, Tony! Share this posting

• tlkng wth tnkgrl #21

  matthew bennett

  4 Jan 2010 | 3:19 pm

  It’s time for another podcast (32 min): - Audio version - Video version Tony Peric (fone frenzy) is joining tnkgrl while I’m taking a break due to real-life stuff, and needing to fix my motorcycle instead of editing/uploading video. Big Ups to Tony of FoneFrenzy for picking up my slack. What, what?? This week we discussed the Nokia Booklet 3G, the Google Nexus One, the Nokia N97 mini, the Nokia 7705 (GSM version) Nukia O1 (KIRF), amongst other things! Enjoy Click here to subscribe to this podcast. Share this posting

• tlkng wth tnkgrl #20, one year anniversary!

  matthew bennett

  15 Dec 2009 | 1:10 pm

  In this episode of tlkng wth tnkgrl, we talk about the Samsung Behold II, Symbian S60V5 vs Maemo, batteries, and which mobile device you should buy your loved ones for Christmas. It’s a week old, because we had to spend $100 to have the MP4 video fixed after the camera died and didn’t write the file correctly. Enjoy! Make sure to check out tnkgrl’s blog, tnkgrl Mobile. You can also listen to the audio version and subscribe to the podcast over at tnkgrl Mobile. Share this posting

• Fireside chat with Julien Fourgeaud of the Symbian Foundation

  matthew bennett

  2 Dec 2009 | 8:50 am

  I recently had dinner with Julien Fourgeaud of the Symbian Foundation. Julien was in town to participate in the keynote panel discussion at a Navigation and Location Services conference. We had a nice chat about the present and future of the Symbian Foundation. We cover the migration from S60 to SF2 to SF3, upcoming hardware, QT, and new manufacturers on board with Symbian. Enjoy! Make sure you also check out Ideas.symbian.org. They’re making a HUGE effort to get community feedback rolled into future versions of Symbian. This website provides direct input from end users to be heard by…

• tlkng wth tnkgrl #19

  matthew bennett

  24 Nov 2009 | 11:24 am

  Tony Peric of FoneFrenzy joins us in this episode. Tony shows off his Palm Pixi, tnkgrl unbrands her SE c905 from at&t, fragmentation of Android, matthew revisits the Ovi Store on the N97, and lots more! Special thanks to Tony Peric of FoneFrenzy.com and tnkgrl of tnkgrl Mobile for contributing. We’re having a great time making videos for you. Leave a comment if there’s anything you want us to change or talk about, please please please! Share this posting

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• Should you use Firefox Mobile or the stock N900 MicroB browser? [A Comparison]

  ang

  5 Feb 2010 | 7:43 pm

  There’s a browser war going on, but it’s not the typical IE vs. Firefox series of battles. No, on the N900 it’s Mozilla vs. Mozilla, brother vs. brother, with the stock MicroB browser on one side and the latest Firefox Mobile 1.0 on the other. Which one is better? It’s a tough call, that’s for sure. I tested both browsers under the same conditions (Home wi-fi connection, clean reboot, empty caches) with my Nokia N900. For the timing tests, I used XNote Timer and took the average of three times. And now for today’s events… Startup Time How long it…

• How-To: Enable Flash in Firefox Mobile 1.0 [N900]

  ang

  28 Jan 2010 | 12:41 pm

  The good news, first: Firefox Mobile 1.0 was been released for Maemo 5, and it brings a couple of sweet improvements to the table. Flash, however, is not one of them. It’s disabled by default, but it’s pretty easy to get it back with these simple steps. The Setup You’ll need the latest version of Firefox Mobile 1.0. Get it from the Mozilla Catalog repository (which should have been added with the Maemo PR 1.0 update) via Application Manager. How To 1. In the address bar, type in about:config. You should get a warning message that asks you to confirm that you want to mess…

• Nokia: Ovi Maps Now Free, a “Game-changing Move”

  ang

  21 Jan 2010 | 6:53 am

  A “secret” launch event early today (one that I’m sure many of us thought was for a new handset) brought the news that Nokia’s Ovi Maps will be completely free. That’s Drive and Walk navigation, Lonely Planet guides, the whole shebang. Free. And it’s available now. Sweet. It’s a great move, but far from “game-changing”, that’s for sure. Pessimists could say it’s typical Nokia M.O. – moving to offer something after the competition, and in this case, Android Maps – but it’s still a welcome gesture. The new…

• Something a little different: Google Nexus One Review

  ang

  20 Jan 2010 | 9:45 pm

  The Google Nexus One Review Yep, I picked up a Google Nexus One. For me, it’s my first serious foray into Android and the land of the Eclairs, Donuts, and Cupcakes. Would Google’s full touch-screen phone entice me to completely drop my two-week-old Nokia N900? Hardware The Nexus One is a beautiful phone. Period. It feels expensive – contrast that to the N900, which just feels like high-quality plastic for the most part – and HTC has done a great job with the look and feel. The front and sides are some kind of metallic plastic mix, while the back cover has a rubbery…

• The N900 Gets Its First (Major) Update: PR1.1

  ang

  14 Jan 2010 | 11:05 am

  Grab the latest Maemo PR1.1 update now! A massive 90MB update was released today for the Nokia N900. There are way, way too many changes to list here, so I’ll pull out a couple of the highlights: - Performance improvements in Browser - Silence ringing by flipping face down - Lower RAM consumption while capturing video. - Application Manager UI speed improvements. - Email faster with large mailboxes. - Maps: Route calculation and search performance improved. - Improving WLAN connection stability - Add voicemail shortcut support. - HW volume keys always have same orientation. Quite a…

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  Nokia E71 Blog For Fanatics

• Catch Up With Updates To The Google Maps Application: Sync Favorites, Maps & Add Layers

  Mike Macias

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:10 pm

  It’s been awhile since I mentioned the Google Maps application that I use so often on my E71. Since that time it’s received some huge updates that I’ve been meaning to share with you E71 Fanatics! Almost on a daily basis I open it up to search for a gas station, local pub, bank, or a place to buy flowers. I get details I need such as the phone number, directions, reviews, etc. It’s really astonishing. I even save my favorite places for later viewing and fast access for directions.I don’t only use Google Maps on my smartphone. I also use the powerful webpage on my computer to find…

• Opera Mobile 10 Beta 2 For E71 Out, Sync Bookmarks, Speed Dial, Settings

  Mike Macias

  2 Dec 2009 | 7:07 am

  Perhaps the most advanced and useful application for the Nokia E71 & Symbian platform has just be updated to Beta 2. Of course I' am talking about the new Opera Mobile 10 which Nokia fanatics across the world have come to love. One of the most highly demanded features of Opera Mobile has been bookmark sync – and now it’s here. This sync is not just for bookmarks. It also goes for certain settings and the popular speed dial feature that Opera users have come to love. Not to mention there is a very slick download manager to check out as well. The folks at Opera have really done…

• Use Internet From Your E71 To Connect An iPod Touch To The Web - Perfect Combination

  Mike Macias

  30 Nov 2009 | 10:25 am

  Do you love your E71 so much that not even the mighty Nokia N900 tempts you to upgrade? You're not the only one. Many other E71 Fanatics don't see a need to dish out more money for a smartphone. But there is still that part of you that wants to keep up with the latest technology. It's the current trend & a standard for newer smartphones to include a large touchscreen display with great multimedia functionality. The iPhone (and iPod Touch) is very tempting with all of the cool apps that you can download and the eye candy, but for most E71 users the iPhone is majorly lacking and can't be used…

• Nokia E71 Firmware Version 400.21.013 Released, Mostly Fixes & Improvements

  Mike Macias

  30 Nov 2009 | 9:54 am

  Over the Thankgiving Day holiday weekend Nokia decided to release the new E71 firmware, version 400.21.013. The timing makes perfect sense because Thanksgiving is a North American holiday and the firmware wasn't released for the E71-2 which is the North American version. At least it's not showing up on my Nokia Software Updater screen. Maybe some of you are having better luck. Congrats to the rest of the E71 Fanatics around the world who are able to update.Here is the E71 firmware changelog sent to me by reader Marcos. (Thumbs up buddy!)NEW FUNTIONALITIES: • Nokia Messaging IM2.0 • Gimlet…

• Official Facebook Application For The Nokia E71 & E72... Finally

  Mike Macias

  25 Nov 2009 | 10:58 am

  Well it's finally here - the official Facebook application for the Nokia E71 (and E72). I'm assuming this app will work on all S60v3 devices including the N86. For some reason Nokia decided NOT to announce this news, even though their loyal E71 users have been waiting for this since it was preinstalled on the N97 months ago.Description:Facebook ® for Nokia E71/E72 lets you keep up with your friends right at yourfingertips. Update your status, see what your friends are up to, upload photos,check messages and lookup phone numbers when you need them anytime and anywhere.Facebook allows you to…

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  Chris Heathcote: Senior Experience Specialist

• no map for this territory

  Chris

  5 Feb 2010 | 7:43 am

  I’ve been playing with Mapumental a bit, as it’s a front end to an awful lot of data, particularly public transport. I’ve been creating maps of how far you can travel in an hour for a few places: 1 hour from EC2: 1 hour from SW11: 1 hour from W9: But the maps only show one snapshot, one piece of the story. Being able to grab a slider, and see how things react, makes a difference – looking not only at the rate of change, but for the rate of change of the rate of change. There is no single view that can either capture or convey this, no static insightful picture.

• Long Finance

  Chris

  2 Feb 2010 | 1:45 pm

  Yesterday I attended the Long Finance conference, taking some of the principles of the Long Now foundation and trying to apply it to capitalism and market economics. There were two panels, the first on the Long Now & long-term thinking with Stewart Brand, Brian Eno and Alexander Rose, and the second on enduring value and the eternal coin, with Edward Bonham Carter, Professor Sir Roderick Floud, and Bernard Lietaer. In between were a few other short presentations, and, errr, surprisingly successful attempts to get bankers singing. Very very rough notes, with little attribution – the…

• truth is stranger than fiction

  Chris

  2 Feb 2010 | 11:51 am

  Asylum, my Lyddle End 2050 building: OMA’s interlace residential complex: Tbilisi Roads Ministry Building: (via Owen Hatherley)

• the past is the curse of the present

  Chris

  24 Jan 2010 | 3:33 pm

• London Gastronomy Seminar #2

  Chris

  21 Jan 2010 | 4:06 pm

  Great LGS again tonight, looking at wine and coffee. We were also given a sample of a very interesting white wine (macerated, unusual for white wine) – it was yellow, cloudy, smelt of sweet apples, tasted herbal, slightly metallic. Also, two samples of coffee, one tasted quite traditional to me, but the second was mindblowing – smell of farmyards, just about turning perfumed/bergamot when drunk. Showed just how different coffee can be. Definitely something worth unpicking about how context and knowledge changes perception – of taste, quality, and worth. Russell’s…

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• Applications on Maemo

  21 Jan 2010 | 5:20 am

  Some people are questioning Maemo as an application development platform. I claim that it is one of Maemo's strong points going forward.We have always had a strong and productive maemo.org community that builds very interesting stuff. Their work has been available for more advanced Maemo users already for some time. I claim that the depth and coolness of those apps and compos beats almost any other mobile platform. Maemo is open and as a true computer OS it allows developers to create really nice applications, widgets, and extensions. If you want to experience them just open disabled…

• Maemo is on the right tracks ... Friday afternoon!

  15 Jan 2010 | 5:57 am

  When we started Maemo 5 we said: let's make the world's best pocketable computer, that is also a good phone! That is exactly what we've managed to do. And this is my vision of the future, too.My impression is that if you read reviews and blogs, all of those that start with "Internet", "Computer", "Multimedia", "Networking" or any other such terms love N900. They think it's the best device out there. Those, who think it primarily just as a phone have more concerns.Just as we planned! The best browser ever, the best conversation view, the best social network integration, very good camera &…

• A good start for 2010!

  12 Jan 2010 | 5:54 am

  Happy new year!We opened Ovi Store beta today for Maemo 5, i.e. for N900. Go and check it out! More here.I made a trip during the new year. And I used my N900 to take a lot of pictures. There are at least two advantages in N900 over a conventional camera:1) The sharp high resolution screen makes it possible to really edit pictures with the device. I think somebody should build or port a good image editing software for Maemo 5. The screen would make it really useful. But even with the in-build editing capabilities you can do nice stuff.2) I can upload the images directly to my Flickr,…

• Houston, we have a take-off!

  10 Nov 2009 | 12:03 am

  We gave a few hundred Nokia N900s out to the Maemo Summit participants. That happened about a month ago. You have now been using the devices and provided us with feedback. Thank you so much! That has been very helpful. You've helped us to focus our effort and work on the remaining issues. That's why I want YOU to be the first to know.We have also been testing the software extensivly in our own labs. We will continue working on the software and will provide important software upgrades as we go forward. But we also wanted to have very good software release to start with. Based on our testing…

• My vision of Maemo ... at least a part of it

  8 Nov 2009 | 3:45 am

  We say that the Nokia N900 running Maemo 5 is a computer. It is a computer in your pocket. What an earth do we mean? Let me try to explain what I think. This is my interpretation.A computer of 2009 -- not 1999When I talk about a computer, I talk about a computer people use today, especially young people. Think about the internet, messaging, sharing, openness, and think about browsers and players. Don't think about spreadsheets, word processors, file managers, or closed systems. That should put you in the right ballpark to start with.Open and expandableI want Maemo software to be expandable…

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  Ivan Kuznetsov: Team Nokia

• Elements of Twitter Style: Attempts at Clear Communication and Attribution for People and Machines

  Karl

  1 Feb 2010 | 5:23 am

  one must first know the rules to break them This is a rather hyperbolic statement but Twitter is probably one of the most fascinating emergent communication and collaboration platforms i’ve come across since writing. communication and collaboration on twitter is very much an emergent, dynamic, and uniquely colored by the individual’s experience. Rather like writing in Shakespeare’s time where spelling and grammar was a fluid, people are experimenting and learning as they participate more. For this reason I thought I’d provide some examples of how I’m using and…

• Social Media and Collaborative Marketing

  Karl

  25 Jan 2010 | 4:38 pm

  Shiv Singh from Razorfish has put a great presentation that highlights the value of social media as part of a collaborative approach to marketing. Shiv calls it Social Influence Marketing, but it’s essentially an approach to marketing that includes the customers in many of the activities. Anyway, worth digging through this presentation, I love slideshare Social Influence Marketing Trends View more presentations from shivsingh. Found via Center Networks

• Avatar – 23 Minute Behind the Scenes Special, Great Demo of Augmented Reality

  Karl

  22 Jan 2010 | 7:13 pm

  Everyone knew that Avatar was a technically advanced, but you will probably be surprised at the amazing fusion of performance and technology. The whole special is brilliant and if you liked the movie you will enjoy this a lot. The real treat though was how James Cameron was using essentially an augmented reality camera to shoot the scenes, in other words he’s looking through a virtual camera in which he can see the combination of the real world actors inside the virtual world he has created. In many ways an advance on the old virtual reality helmets that were all the rage in the…

• Martin Luther King Jr. on Technology

  Karl

  18 Jan 2010 | 2:42 pm

  “Through our scientific genius, we have made this world a neighborhood; now, through our moral and spiritual development we must make of it a brotherhood. In a real sense, we must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King Jr.

• Generic Social Strategies: Become the Platform or Drive the Community

  Karl

  22 Dec 2009 | 1:11 pm

  Michael Porter popularized the idea and proposed generic strategies for organizations like Cost Leadership and Differentiation. Normally i’m not a fan of generic strategies as I don’t think they really lead to a sustainable advantage. IMHO most strategies should take such good use of your organizations talents, capabilities and resources that it should be virtually impossible to copy your strategy. In other words if you are worried about sharing your strategy with people because you think people might steel it, I’d suggest you find a new strategy. That being said I’ve…

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  Charlie Schick: Social Media Relations

• links for 2010-02-08

  charlie

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:04 pm

  Best Connected Individuals Are Not the Most Influential Spreaders in Social Networks "By contrast, "a less connected person who is strategically placed in the core of the network will have a significant effect that leads to dissemination through a large fraction of the population."" [via @drkiki] Maybe now folks will realize that numbers of followers alone, doesn't cut it. (tags: interesting social research socialnetworking network sharing psychology socialnetwork relationships networks content socialmedia sociology influence k-shells)

• links for 2010-02-04

  charlie

  4 Feb 2010 | 10:07 pm

  Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: The Curious Case of the Evolving Apostrophe "A new technique for analyzing early English texts is gradually revealing the history of the apostrophe." [via @EvilSue] (tags: grammar apostrophe writing history) Dynamic Dummy Image Generator - DummyImage.com "Simply add the width, an 'x', and the height (example) of the image you want and my script will spit out a gray box to the size you want with the image dimensions in black Arial text centered in the middle of the box." [via @mattbalara] (tags: web design tools tool webdesign…

• links for 2010-02-02

  charlie

  2 Feb 2010 | 10:03 pm

  Where bio begins: The Future of Life Science. Very intriguing. Well done. Where does Biology begin for you? (tags: biology marketing science molecularist future buzz)

• links for 2010-02-01

  charlie

  1 Feb 2010 | 10:04 pm

  Elements of Twitter Style: Attempts at Clear Communication and Attribution for People and Machines "Slashtags are a simple way to add information to a tweet that helps both people and machines understand context around a tweet. At the end of the content of the tweet you add a / followed by some two and three letter codes that provide the meaning (common slashtag codes are by, via, cc, and re)." (tags: twitter grammar socialnetworking hacks)

• links for 2010-01-31

  charlie

  31 Jan 2010 | 10:05 pm

  Subtraction.com: Notes on iPad "Those looking to the iPad to return us to some semblance of a print-like reading experience are basically wrong, I believe. In fact, lots of really smart people will continue to get this wrong going forward. We’re all still figuring out. That’s the definition of an opportunity." [via @moleitau] We shouldn't try to make the iPad reading experience mirror a static paper-based magazine anymore than Gutenberg should have tried to make static paper-based books be like monk-o-matic manuscripts, that is, hand-written mutli-dimensionally illustrated…

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  Karl Long: Web/Social Media Integration Manager

• Elements of Twitter Style: Attempts at Clear Communication and Attribution for People and Machines

  Karl

  1 Feb 2010 | 5:23 am

  one must first know the rules to break them This is a rather hyperbolic statement but Twitter is probably one of the most fascinating emergent communication and collaboration platforms i’ve come across since writing. communication and collaboration on twitter is very much an emergent, dynamic, and uniquely colored by the individual’s experience. Rather like writing in Shakespeare’s time where spelling and grammar was a fluid, people are experimenting and learning as they participate more. For this reason I thought I’d provide some examples of how I’m using and…

• Social Media and Collaborative Marketing

  Karl

  25 Jan 2010 | 4:38 pm

  Shiv Singh from Razorfish has put a great presentation that highlights the value of social media as part of a collaborative approach to marketing. Shiv calls it Social Influence Marketing, but it’s essentially an approach to marketing that includes the customers in many of the activities. Anyway, worth digging through this presentation, I love slideshare Social Influence Marketing Trends View more presentations from shivsingh. Found via Center Networks

• Avatar – 23 Minute Behind the Scenes Special, Great Demo of Augmented Reality

  Karl

  22 Jan 2010 | 7:13 pm

  Everyone knew that Avatar was a technically advanced, but you will probably be surprised at the amazing fusion of performance and technology. The whole special is brilliant and if you liked the movie you will enjoy this a lot. The real treat though was how James Cameron was using essentially an augmented reality camera to shoot the scenes, in other words he’s looking through a virtual camera in which he can see the combination of the real world actors inside the virtual world he has created. In many ways an advance on the old virtual reality helmets that were all the rage in the…

• Martin Luther King Jr. on Technology

  Karl

  18 Jan 2010 | 2:42 pm

  “Through our scientific genius, we have made this world a neighborhood; now, through our moral and spiritual development we must make of it a brotherhood. In a real sense, we must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King Jr.

• Generic Social Strategies: Become the Platform or Drive the Community

  Karl

  22 Dec 2009 | 1:11 pm

  Michael Porter popularized the idea and proposed generic strategies for organizations like Cost Leadership and Differentiation. Normally i’m not a fan of generic strategies as I don’t think they really lead to a sustainable advantage. IMHO most strategies should take such good use of your organizations talents, capabilities and resources that it should be virtually impossible to copy your strategy. In other words if you are worried about sharing your strategy with people because you think people might steel it, I’d suggest you find a new strategy. That being said I’ve…

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• A business case for Nokia's Rs.500 ($10) phone

  Manas Ganguly

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:23 am

  Reports suggest that Nokia readies a made in India Rs.500 ($10) and Rs.1000($20) phone for Mobile World Congress (Barcelona) In 2004, Nokia changed the rules of the mobile handhelds game by launching the Nokia 1100. The Nokia 1100 was a true “fortune at the bottom of pyramid” waiting to happen for Nokia. This opened up Asian markets and Nokia took unassailable positions in emerging markets. The rules of the game changed to cost of ownership formulas for the less privileged. Mobiles became the common man’s device. Combined with falling tariffs, the Nokia 1100 was the start of the Telecom…

• Your Ticket to Country Club Riches

  Federick

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:48 am

  About the time they told me I’d need a team of security guards to escort me to the men’s room, I knew I’d done it. By it, I mean ticked off a roomful of folks so pompous that you couldn’t tell where their silver spoons ended and their perma-scowls began. Even worse, I committed this crime on the holiest of grounds … Brace yourself for the horror! That’s right. I wore seersucker shorts, a red Ralph Lauren polo shirt, and flip-flops to a local country club, where I was supposed to interview a “wealth manager” who was reading passages from his…

• Nokia pilot ‘point & find’ Posters

  Afreen

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:14 am

  Colchester, South East England might not seem like the most likely location for a pilot of cutting e

• Nokia 5610 UMTS Sakura Red Handy

  mjjlamdee

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:15 am

  Nokia GSM NOK 5610-RED Handy Shop Kaufen Nokia 5610 UMTS Sakura Red HandyKlasse Handy , wie beschrieben.Jederzeit und gerne wieder. UMTS-Quadband-Mobiltelefon 3,2-Megapixel-Kamera mit Autofokus und UKW-Radio Display mit 5,6 cm Displaydiagonale und 16,7 Millionen Farben 20 MB interner Speicher und microSD-Speicherkarten-Steckplatz Lieferumfang: Nokia 5610 XpressMusic, Nokia Akku BP-5M, 900 mAh, Nokia Reise-Ladegerät AC-4E, Nokia Musik-Headset HS-45 (mit Fernbedienung AD-56), Nokia Micro-USB-Datenkabel CA-101D, Nokia microSD-Speicherkarte MU-22 (1 Gbyte), deutsche Bedienungsanleitung Kompaktes…

• Embargo: WorldMate Teams Up with LinkedIn

  James Kendrick

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  The WorldMate travel service has been a long-time companion to 5 million frequent travelers. The web service that makes keeping on top of travel arrangements a breeze is paired with smartphone apps to bring all its benefits into the palm of traveler’s hands. There are WorldMate apps for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Nokia/ Symbian phones. BlackBerry users will especially benefit from a new partnership that WorldMate announced today, integrating the travel service with LinkedIn. Not only does this bring helpful new features to the WorldMate BlackBerry app it also means WorldMate…

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• NEWS: Symbian goes open source ahead of schedule

  Amy-Mae Elliott

  4 Feb 2010 | 8:14 am

  "Free code to everyone" The Symbian Foundation has announced it has completed the open source release of the source code for the widely-used smartphone platform. This means the 10-year-old Symbian platform, which has been the OS for over 300 million devices around the world, is now completely open with the source code available for free. "Any individual or organization can now take, use and modify the code for any purpose, whether that be for a mobile device or for something else entirely", says the Foundation. ?"The development community is now empowered to shape the future of the mobile…

• NEWS: Nokia 6303i classic announced

  Amy-Mae Elliott

  4 Feb 2010 | 3:05 am

  Based on a "proven formula" Nokia has announced the Nokia 6303i classic describing it as "a sophisticated and compact device". Said to follow in the footprints of the Nokia 6303 classic, building on what Nokia calls the "proven formula that made Nokia the world leader in mobile phones" the candybar phone will launch in the first quarter of 2010. With a 2.2-inch display, the stainless steel 6303i gets a 3.2-megapixel camera, email and IM through Nokia Messaging and what's said to be great battery life. It's not clear at this stage what improvements it offers over the 6303 classic, as the spec…

• NEWS: New Ovi Maps hits 1.4 million downloads

  Amy-Mae Elliott

  3 Feb 2010 | 2:59 am

  1.7% of compatible handset owners take Nokia up on something for nothing offer Following the release of a new version of its Ovi Maps, making the mapping and navigation software and service free on certain phones, Nokia has announced it has hit a milestone. Nokia says over 1.4 million have downloaded the application across the world with China topping the list and Italy, the UK, Germany and Spain making up the rest of the top five countries. The top five most popular Nokia devices installing the download have been the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia N97, Nokia 5230 and Nokia…

• NEWS: VIDEO: Nokia explains new Custom Dictionary beta app

  Amy-Mae Elliott

  1 Feb 2010 | 3:39 am

  Make text predictions personal to you Nokia's Beta Labs team has introduced a new "experimental" app - the Nokia Custom Dictionary - that lets users better manage their S60 phone's wordage. The custom dictionary is used for storing your personal words that are used frequently while typing that will then come up when you're typing in predictive text mode.Taking the functionality further, you can also view all the words in your custom dictionary, edit and delete existing words, export and import the dictionary as xml file to another phone and scan in words to add.The Nokia Custom Dictionary can…

• NEWS: Firefox goes mobile

  Stuart Miles

  30 Jan 2010 | 11:29 am

  Nokia N900 owners first to benefit Mozilla, the organisation behind?Firefox, has confirmed that you can now get a mobile version of its popular browser. However, before you hunt for the download button on your phone, it's currently only available on the Maemo operating system found on the?Nokia N900.? "Starting today,?Nokia N900?owners can enjoy many of the same Firefox features they know and love on the desktop on their mobile device", said the foundation in a blog post. Key features dedicated to the mobile offering according to Mozilla include the lack of a need to type and the promise of…