Extras

Seth’s Blog: Small is the new big

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Before I joined Nokia, I worked for a company of 1 – me. Everything I created, was created by me. It was great, and I was really growing personally, on the path to creating some more great stuff.

When I joined Nokia, I think they had over 60,000 employees (now I think they have about 54k, in 60 countries). It was my first office job. A very different experience. My advantage in the company, in some ways, is that I think as a little guy working with, not for, a big guy. It gives me a bit of a rebel attitude, allowing me to ignore the big company stuff, while delivering the speed and savvy that a little guy can bring. On the flip side, I have been constantly frustrated by things that small shops do that I can’t do because I work in a ‘beeg’ company.

But sometimes I think, if you’re shooting to ship a few hundred million units of electronics in 365 days, I think small might not cut it. Maybe.

Sigh. In what I do (wordsmith and imagineer) maybe small is just as good, if not better. Maybe even just a better proposition for me. Right?

Link: Seth’s Blog: Small is the new big.

Don’t wait. Get small. Think big.

Extras

Wireless: For those often on the go, blogging from a cellphone – Technology – International Herald Tribune

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Link: Wireless: For those often on the go, blogging from a cellphone – Technology – International Herald Tribune.

Six Apart’s mobile blogging software depends on the operating system of the phone rather than on individual partnerships with mobile phone operators. Its application is the power behind the Nokia Lifeblog and therefore must be run on a Nokia Series 60 phone.

General

Blogs: What do corporations want?

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A great little commentary on the same things I have been observing: there is an great uncertainty as to the who, what, how or corporate blogging.

Link: Guidewire Group – A Social Media Enterprise: What do corporations want?.

Interestingly, there was little discussion about corporations and the blogosphere at these events. Based on conversations I had over the course of the three days, it’s clear that there is very little mutual understanding between the entrepreneurs, geeks and enthusiasts on one side and the mainstream corporate marketing and communications professionals on the other. Which makes me feel like a U.N. interpreter.

Tips & Tricks

Nokia Data Mover

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In the past few months I’ve had to migrate from a Nokia 7610 to a Nokia 6680, and then again from a Nokia 7610 to a Nokia 6630. Having had to change phones so many times, I wanted to try Nokia’s little Data Mover that comes with the new Series 60 phones.

The move to the 6680 was a charm. Basically, everything moved, I didn’t suffer any duplications, everything was set the way I had set it on my 7610. I don’t recall what I did with my Lifeblog data, though, so I don’t know if Lifeblog behaved during the transfer.

But, hey, it was easy to do – start the app, transfer part of it to the old phone, transfer patiently, and that’s it.

I just want to mention that it didn’t go so well when I went from the 7610 to the 6630. first of all, I wanted to go from the 6680 to the 6630, but the Data Mover didn’t work I think Data Mover is a one time deal and might prevent moving data to a next phone. Not smart if I am going to want to move my data to an even newer phone.

So I had to uninstall the little Data Mover app from my old 7610 and do the process all over again with the 6630. Turns out the 6630 transfers less stuff than the Data Mover on the 6680, so obviously there was some evolution of the app in the mean time (the 6630 came out before the 6680). But, that also meant that the experience wasn’t the same. And when I did transfer, it was a mess, since the Lifeblog thumbnails and such confused the whole issue.

Sigh.

At least I know that this nifty little data mover app is getting better and better. Indeed, with all the data we are starting to carry on our phones, upgrading and moving all personal data should be painless. Data Mover is certainly on the way to making it completely painless.

Announcements

Lifeblog on the Mac, anyone?

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Anyone up for working up a Lifeblog-like client for the Mac? It’d entail writing a PC and mobile client and using Apple’s iSynch tools.

I’ve modeled it in different ways and complexity that I think most of the cool Lifeblog features could be copied on the Mac pretty easily (except for the true sync part – that’s never easy).

Anyone game?

ADDED 10 June: Before anyone gets too excited, this has nothing to do with Lifeblog (I left the team) or Nokia. It’s a personal wish. In any case, I have already received some direct queries. So let’s see.