This is the road I live on. It’s around 18.00 on a Wed night. The soft snow seems to muffle the sounds even more and the white makes the whole area seem calm. How different from bare asphalt and concrete.
It’s so beautiful here.
Quiet road
Anina : Top model et geek
PDA France visited Anina’s exhibition and had quite a bit to say. Here’s the link, if you can read French.
Link: Anina : Top model et geek.
One of the funnier lines is this:
Je ne pouvais pas me faire avoir par la belle opération marketing d’un constructeur téléphone, aussi créatif qu’il soit.
As I understand it, the guy was so bowled over by her exhibition, which happened to have a bunch of Nokia products, that he couldn’t help but think this was a Nokia thing.
Well, sorry dude, but this is how I like to do marketing – find enthusiastic people, give them the right tools (thanks Xavier and Ilpo!), and let them wow the world.
Indeed, that’s what Anina has done, and we have many more things we want to create together. Yes, we helped her along, but she’s the one with the creative genius – SUPER DUPER MODEL, I say.
She’s something!
attribution: the picture is from the PDA France article
Espresso of finality
Cake and coffee (not espresso, though) at my friend’s birthday (Kalle).
Here’s one of the many espressos my friend Selma always offers me when I’m at her house.
This was a delightful espresso in Ventimiglia, Italy. Olli, Carita (Fatal!), and I hopped over to Italy while we were in Monaco, preparing for the NMC.
Another fine end of meal by Selma – with espresso, of course. This one was particularly tasty.
A post by JY, reminded me that I like taking photos of the espressos I drink. Or at least I thought I took many photos of espressos. I think I don’t because the espresso is a nice ending to a lucious meal, or a device to force us to stop-savour-enjoy Life. Pulling out my phone to Lifeblog it sometimes doesn’t fit.
Here are some photos of memorable end-of-meal delights.
Lifeblog as a term?
It’s a dangerous proposition for a product name to turn into a verb or generic noun. For example, some people still say ‘xerox’ instead of photocopy. And, if you’ve ever read some of those writer’s magazines (I admit, I have), you’d have sees companies like Kimberly-Clarke begging for folks not to turn Kleenex into a noun (it’s facial tissues, if you want to know). I think the biggest example now is Google – we don’t search the Web, we google the Web.
Well, as is usual in the read-search cycle of wending one’s way through the Web, I came across a reference in
Engadget that has nothing to do with Lifeblog, but references to it as a
noun:
And I remembered one from The
Register, and searched for it with Google (as opposed to just googling it):
storage is now pretty well cheap enough for you to just record your whole life in a lifeblog
I say it’s dangerous, because using a product name as a noun or verb actually dilutes the impact of the product name or brand (or so we marketing mavens have been over-trained to think of the brand). Therefore, I cannot fully say I am happy or sad. Sad, if this alternate usage of the product name will diminish us and then diminish our parent brand. Happy, meaning that we are already getting to the state where folks are thinking of us and how we apply to other things in the world.
I suppose I could be happy if folks said ‘Lifeblog’ with a capital ‘L’ meaning our product. I don’t mind also if folks start propagating other terms referring to products in our class:
- multimedia diary
- automatic multimedia diary
- life recording
- life recorder
- life browser
- life archive
I’m not so sure about these terms:
- lifeblogging
- a lifeblog
- lifeblogger
So, short of me being a ninny, I’d rather at this stage that we get referred to as Lifeblog (as a product name). I think in the above two examples, that would have fit well. But, part of me is thrilled to have been thought of and used in this way.
Ah, ambivalence…
Cool sunrise
Mon 22.11.2004 08.47
Black and white
Sun 21.11.2004 16.20
Sun 21.11.2004 16.21
Light, dusk, snow, trees
Running log
I don’t know if I said this yet, but I really like Lifeblog. Ok, so I am heavily biased. But, I’d like to share one way in which using Lifeblog has been easier for me than any other tool.
Rapidly approaching an advanced age, I decided to take up running. I started gradually back in August and now I am regularly running a few times a week (6 km, woo-hoo!). After every run, I either sit at Lifeblog on the PC or, with Lifeblog 1.5 (coming soon, I promise!), use Lifeblog on the phone, to type in a Note of my run – the Running log.
I label every note with the title ‘Running’. I also change the time anchor to be roughly when I returned from the run. In the note I mention the route, the time, and anything interesting or notable about the run.
I also have added photos and graphics to the log. At home, I run a regular route, so I went to a local online mapping app, downloaded a map of my route, annotated it in Photoshop, and then imported and labeled it in Lifeblog. When I run while traveling, I usually take a picture of a map to show my route.
And here’s the final touch – whenever I want to look back on my running, maybe to see the times or maps, I just enter ‘Running’ into the search box and Voilá! My whole log is there. The key thing is just to label consistently, making it easier to search later on.
One thing I don’t do is show the days that have no items. Then I get to see all those days I didn’t run and end up feeling guilty when there are too many.
My running shoes
Running in San Diego – overlooking La Jolla Shores.
Running in Monaco – looking back over Monte Carlo
One of the runs I did in Monaco. Ran out of road, so I went the other way the next time.
The other run I did in Monaco.
Today, while running, looking over Seilimäki, in Espoo Finland. It was between -5 and -10 celsius. There was fresh snow on the ground.
Funny thing happened today
I’ve been trying to call a friend of mine (on his mobile phone number) in the US and I kept getting his voice mail (with his voice and all). I finally left a message, but still no response. And it was always going to voice mail immediately. I thought either he was always on the phone or it didn’t accept calls that do not send the caller-ID (which can happen with long distance calls).
Finally, I left a message on his home phone and he immediately sent an email for me to call him on his cell phone – it was a different number!
Turns out the number I had was really old. Seems like the company, Sprint, had never turned off his voice mail on the inactive number.
Fun-nee!
Listening to the cusotmer – features requested in July
I read this post a while back and (google) bumped into it again.
Some of Steve’s wishes have been answered with Nokia Lifeblog 1.5 (out soon):
1) …anything i can do to an object in other parts of the Series 60 UI, allow me to do from the Lifeblog interface
Done. From Lifeblog, you can reply or forward messages, and send items such as images via MMS or email or Bluetooth. Just like in the Gallery, but better.
2) Sync/Upload via Bluetooth
Uh, you should be able to do that with all versions of Lifeblog. We support whatever the phone and PC mutually support – cable or Bluetooth synch.
3) ability to add notes for that day
Done. Available in 1.5. Really cool too when you add a bluetooth keyboard to the mix. It was one of those features I would not negotiate on. It is a diary.
4) calendar widget integration…isn’t this really just an extension of a calendar view?
Uh… not in Lifeblog 1.5. Sorry.
5) upload to a server – i understand this isn’t a moblogging tool, but it sure could be a cool one! i’d rather just have a safe place to store everything…hell, can i send it to my iDisk somehow? i wish.
In Lifeblog 1.5 we’ve added Posting to Web via Atom. I don’t think you’ll want everything uploaded from the phone, since each image is at least 300k. That’s a long time ($$ or €€) over GPRS. But, we know you’ll want to post some stuff, so that’s why we have Post to Web (it is LifeBLOG).
I am biased, but Lifeblog is the best mobile blogging tool for me (and it’s great on the PC, too). And it’s not just that – you blog from the multimedia rather than adding multimedia items after writing all the text. It’s about sharing the multimedia, so you can post practically any Lifeblog item to your blog. That’s why I like it.
And, after you post, a little post item is placed in your Timeline. That post item has the link to the post, which you can then open to view, email or, from the phone, SMS to someone. I think that’s cool – live it, blog it, tell everyone about it.
But, hey, Lifeblog is not just about blogging. More ramblings on that another day.