General

Clever comment on a use for Lifeblog

Posted on by charlie

Link: Golden Swamp: Lifeblog for Learning.

Lifeblog for Learning
Nokia proudly announced in a recent press release a software and service called Lifeblog. It powers a cell phone to collect images and video which the software then organizes chronologically and makes available for reuse. This principle would be ideal for gathering materials for learning something, like lesson assignments and page scans. The kids already have the phones. But the way schooling is set up the wireless world is turned off. That is increasingly a reason school is becoming irrelevant, or at the least, out of touch.

General

Nice comment on Lifeblog from a user

Posted on by charlie

Link: TANKERx – Thoughts, Meditations and Brain Dumps: SMARTPHONE: The Difference Between Cool and Brill!.

Take, for example, my favourite piece of software at the moment, Nokia Lifeblog. I don’t have to do or know anything about my Smartphone to use it. I take my photos or videos, plug in the phone and there they are, on my PC, organised in a TimeLine with the messages that I have sent and received presenting me with a virtual account of my day! I mean, that’s just brill! It’s not efficient, it doesn’t make me work any better, quicker or quieter – it just does what it does, complimenting the way I do things (just look at my Moblog), enabling me to be who I am and not what I need to be to make it work.

Announcements

Where I will be tomorrow – Blogger-Treffen Berlin

Posted on by charlie

Thanks to Marius for pointing out that I am some sort of panelist at the blogger meeting in Berlin tomorrow. I thought I was just going to lurk about. Nope. Sneaky Heiko and Loïc are making me sing for my snacks.

Link: Blogger-Treffen Berlin.

2 Vortr�ge stehen bis jetzt fest:

1. Dr. Thorsten Wichmann: �bersicht �ber Entwicklung von Weblogs in Deutschland
2. Charlie Schick (Nokia): Vorstellung des Konzepts der LifeBlog-Software von Nokia

You can get more info here.

Announcements

Erik Thauvin’s LifeBlogger app updated

Posted on by charlie

What?

LifeBlogger allows you to post your Nokia Lifeblog favorites to your blog.

Your images, text notes and videos can now be effortlessly posted to your blog using FTP (Blogger, etc.) or via the MetaWeblog API (Movable Type, Radio UserLand, etc.) [More…]

Link: LifeBlogger.

I haven’t used this in a while, since I use TypePad, so no problem blogging from Lifeblog 1.5. But it should be nice for those who use other blogging providers or those who think we are trying to build a proprietary protocol for blogging and rule the universe (bwahahaha!).

Let me know how it works.

And, way to go Erik.

Tips & Tricks

Lifeblog mobile blog settings

Posted on by charlie
Under the Options menu, go to Settings
Under the Options menu, go to Settings
Select Weblog Settings
Select Weblog Settings


The Username is your blog username, the Password is your blog password (case sensitive, usually)
The Username is your blog username, the Password is your blog password (case sensitive, usually)
The server address is actually what Lifeblog uses to communicate via Atom, the protocol it uses to post to the blog server. In this case, the server address is the TypePad Atom entry point. In the near future, we hope to list a few other blogs that you can post to.
The server address is actually what Lifeblog uses to communicate via Atom, the protocol it uses to post to the blog server. In this case, the server address is the TypePad Atom entry point. In the near future, we hope to list a few other blogs that you can post to.


Info on the Internet acess point is in the next image. But, while I am here, the Optimise image resuces the size of the image for upload. You could send the full size image, but it'll just take longer.
Info on the Internet acess point is in the next image. But, while I am here, the Optimise image reduces the size of the image for upload. You could send the full size image, but it would just take longer.
For the Internet access point, use the open internet access point on your phone, not the WAP or MMS access point.
For the Internet access point, use the open internet access point on your phone, not the WAP or MMS access point.



In case you are wondering how to make your blog settings in Lifeblog mobile (and on the Lifeblog PC). Lifeblog currently is compatible with the Nokia 7610, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6670, and Nokia 6260. The only blog service that is compatible right now with Lifeblog is Six Apart’s TypePad weblogging service.