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Once again, Matt Jones has sent me a nice link of a review of Lifeblog (from another Jones). I have some comments to add to what was said:

Link: Thoughts, trends, and experiences in mobile and wireless data, multimedia and services
Mobile killer app? CHOICE | Mobile Jones.

I’ve been using Nokia’s LifeBlog on my phone for collecting and packaging photos and thoughts while mobile.

 

I’ve been using mobile tools to start blogging, but not moblogging per say. My cameraphone is always with me, and I have Lifeblog installed on my phone and my laptop, but when it comes time to upload the photos and text, I do so in a multi-step process rather than being charged per kilobyte from the phone.

This is something that I call the ‘dark underbelly of mobile services’: the cost of uploading is still something that folks want to avoid. Will this slow eventually the adoption of photo posting from the mobile as file sizes increase as the phone cameras pile on the megapixels?

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So, I have the capability of collecting the information while mobile, but don’t feel the requirement to post it immediately. The time independence of blogs, podcasts, and/or the web are the strength of these platforms. Where is the immediacy requirement to use mobile networks versus nomadic wi-fi or static wired broadband?  I haven’t found it, yet.

I find that with my compulsive behaviour pattern, I capture a moment and want to share right away. The longer I wait, the less likely I will post. Of course, some things can wait longer than others, but my interest in posting a specific item goes down the longer I wait. It might have to due with me using my blog as a ‘this is what I am doing’ rather than a ‘this is a thought I have mulled about and brought forth for discussion’.

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The user experience with the PC LifeBlog application is excellent. Nice touches everywhere:

   
* visual feedback of image and text window wrap after the posting process is complete
   
* sync with multiple phones is an important feature for couples and families
   
* integrated with Nokia PC Suite to make transferring files to and from the phone a snap

Thanks.

My only concern with LifeBlog is the price for a license.  I can’t see paying $40 for it, but there’s good news.  The trial version allows storing up to 200 images with no mention of a time out.  So theoretically, if you backup photos and delete them from the LifeBlog application the trial would last quite a long time.

Ya-ha… I have heard of this suggestion before, and thought it interesting. But, hey, it defeats the whole purpose of the software. To go through all this only to post? There are easier ways, I think, without going through the rigmarole of keeping a Lifeblog and deleting stuff. Each to their own.

 

Nice review, in any case. Thanks.

The one to watch!

Link: Anina Top Model technologique /// Marketing viral – Buzz marketing ★★★.

Top model international, Anina n’en est pas moins accroc aux nouvelles technologies. Jonglant avec les possibilités de la mobilité, éditant son site Internet et son blog elle-même, nous avons interviewé la belle pour en savoir un peu plus sur le buzz dans le monde de la mode…

Link: O’Reilly: A Quick Guide to Digital Shoeboxes.

For many consumers, just mentioning words like media management is enough to send them running away screaming. These are the people who have bought digicams because they’re cheap and easy; they may well have given no consideration to managing their photos in any meaningful manner.

This is a pity, because unless the digicam generation takes some action now to make proper, useful photo archives, it is going to be in something of a muddle in 30 years’ time, when it collectively tries to relive its younger days and finds that nothing is labeled or captioned properly.

Gil is right – the apps he describes here are digital shoeboxes. But digital shoeboxes are the equivalent of getting your folder of photos and either throwing them into a showbox or putting them all into an album, organized by roll of film.

What people really need is some way to go beyond that, more like a digital scrapbook. A digital scrapbook (or multimedia diary) is one of the design drivers for Lifeblog. A scrapbook adds context to the photos.

Great perspective.

Link: O’Reilly: The File Manager Is Dead. Long Live the Lifeblog.

Author’s note: When you stop and think about how far computers and multimedia have come in just the last ten years, you can be forgiven for allowing your head to spin a little bit. Our computer hardware is getting so small, and so cheap, so quickly, that we can barely keep up.

What are the implications for a future where digitial photography and video are as everyday as sending email? How do we cope with that much media; store it, browse it, use it? Christian Lindholm, one of Nokia’s chief professional thinkers, has been experimenting with a new kind of weblog that he says offers a first step toward better media management. There’s a long way to go yet, but his ‘lifeblogging’ concept is as good a start as any.

Wow. The things I find out from other people outside the company. I really haven’t thought about any patents linked to Lifeblog. That’s why I am the marketing dude and not running the place. 😉

Link: Mobilitee.

Method and apparatus for automatically updating a mobile web log (blog) to reflect mobile terminal activity