Announcements

Nokia Lifeblog now available for the N90 and N70

Posted on by charlie

Dan Goodall, product manager for Nokia Lifeblog, has told me that there’s been an update made to Lifeblog PC and that there’s a new version of Lifeblog mobile that is compatible with the Nseries phones N90 and N70.

Because I haven’t been able to play with any of the Nseries phones (never seen a working version of the N70 or a prototype of the N91) I don’t know too well what the improvements to Lifeblog mobile are. But, what I have seen has been really cool, such as mpeg4 support, landscape viewing on the large N90 screen, fresher look, more file info available, and some other cool things that I’ve seen them talk about.

I will admit that I prefer the Nokia 6680 over the N70 (mostly because I know it better), but I would change to an Nseries phone just to have the updated Lifeblog.


Oh, and almost forgot. I think Lifeblog is free to Nseries users. Woohoo!

Extras

NetEconomie :: Anina.net : “On peut être un mannequin et s’intéresser aux technologies mobiles”

Posted on by charlie

I might not be involved in promoting Lifeblog as my work any more, but who needs me any more, if Lifeblog has Anina – a real evangelist with enthusiasm?

What makes her tick? Read this article in NetEconomie. My favorite quote among many – ‘I want to, in the end, show one can be a woman, a model, and have a true project linked to new technologies.’

And that’s the magic of Anina.

Link: NetEconomie :: Anina.net : "On peut être un mannequin et s’intéresser aux technologies mobiles".

Je veux enfin montrer qu’on peut être une femme, un mannequin, et avoir un vrai projet lié aux nouvelles technologies.

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My trip to Brasil – Festa Junina

Posted on by charlie
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June is about the Festa Junina where everyone dresses like a country bumpki, sets off fireworks and balloons, and dances to fun music.

I only now made the connection that this Festa is the same as Juhannus in Finland, though celebrated differently.

How interesting.

Here the workers for one of the airlines running the shuttles between Rio and Sao Paulo are all dressed up in Festa Junina garb.

Reflections

‘Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.’ – Jobs at Stanford’s commencement

Posted on by charlie

jobs is an interesting character and has been part of my folklore for a large part of my life. I’ve been wondering how age has been treating him, how he has been ‘maturing’. In his commencement speech at Stanford, I see a few great nuggets to pick up and mull over at this interesting stage of my life.

Link: ‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

And my dots looking back are pretty interesting. Gotta keep ’em going.

Extras

Brazilians are lining up to blog

Posted on by charlie

Link: Brazilians are lining up to blog photos.

Only 500 people per country can join each day. I just joined and was the 149th American today. But Seifer says the Brazilians tap out their 500 within the first 15 minutes after midnight.

I just came back from Brasil and spoke with the leading service providers and operators there (in Portuguese, natch). Blogging is really big. Mobile blogging is, too.

A few things I saw:

  • There is a service provider, UOL, that really gets mobility – they not only have mobile blogs, but their blogs are easily read from mobiles or PC web browsers. That’s great.
  • I heard that Fotolog (mentioned above) actually has a huge percentage of Brasilians on their service.

  • I heard that Buzznet also have a large number of Brasilians on their service.

  • Orkut, from Google, apparently is mostly made of Brasilian users. Go figure.

I bet Brasilian-Portuguese is the 3rd most common blogging language (after American-English and French-French). In all my travels, I have never seen such a deep penetration and understanding of blogs outside of the US or France (don’t get me talking about Europe in general).

Indeed, I think the US, Brasil, and France show best the different aspects of where blogs have come from, what makes them successful, and where they are going.