I haven’t looked at my Lifeblog archive in a long time. Without the software, it’s just a deep tree of folders holding all sorts of media over many years.
For some reason, last night, I took a peek, flipping through old photos and text messages from another time. Sigh, that Nokia is no more.
But I found some screen shots (with a date and URL) of how we would post from Lifeblog.
Blogging from my phone
I don’t want to go into the interesting origin story of Lifeblog and my brief time with it, but, as the name suggests, blogging was a key feature. And not just any blogging, blogging from the phone.
Before Lifeblog, there were some hacks to get photos online. But with Lifeblog, or so it became, it was easy to compose a photo-centric post from your phone (thanks to the genius of the engineers on our team and at Six Apart). The Six Apart folks even made cool templates to showcase the photo posts.
Screen shots!
And in case you’re wondering, here’s what’s left of the post, the template long lost after many digital migrations.
A trip to the archives
These images were used to teach folks how to post. And there was also a post to teach folks how to put their settings in. How quaint!
What a time! As a team, we were breaking all sorts of ground. It was the closest I got to start-up mentality at Nokia.
Alas, Lifeblog never reached it’s potential, never got fully baked, faded away in neglect.
And folks like Apple and Instagram made it all look new again.
[Now back to my therapist after opening up these and a ton of related old cobwebbed memories I should know better than to disturb.]Image from the launch website (found in this post of mine)
