Lifeblog

links for 2007-10-28

• The Outsourced Brain - New York Times
  "I discovered the Sacred Order of the External Mind. I realized I could outsource those mental tasks I didn’t want to perform. Life is a math problem, and I had a calculator."
  (tags: philosophy complexification community communication internet socialsoftware society)
• Semapedia.org » Blog Archive » Upcoming MobileCamps in LA, SF, and NYC
  (tags: mobilelifestyle mobilecomputing mobile conference conversation wireless)

Google Calendar for iPhone

Stumbled upon this yesterday. So pretty.

Sigh.

And, yes, there is One Web, but if you can tailor the experience, then do it.

Link: Google Calendar:

Just launched!

Stay on task with Google Calendar on your iPhone
With an easy-to-read interface, Google Calendar now works (and looks) better on your iPhone. Enhanced 'touch-screen' buttons and color-coded events make keeping track of your schedule - and viewing others' calendars - even easier while you're on the go. Learn more.

Kids and phones and IM and SMS

A colleague was mentioning how his (American) daughters were getting all caught up with Webkinz:

"Webkinz pets are lovable plush pets that each come with a unique Secret Code. With it, you enter Webkinz World where you care for your virtual pet, answer trivia, earn KinzCash, and play the best kids games on the net!"

There's some IM involved and he said his daughters were nuts over it.

Yes, girls are natural connectors and communicators and love IM.

But, my daughter has no interest in the Web or IM. Y'see, she's had a mobile since she was 7 and from day-one grokked SMS.

My thought is: How does giving kids mobile phones with SMS change the way they view things like IM? _Especially_ for kids who have never done IM (that's the spin - SMS kids of today grew up on IM)?

links for 2007-10-24

• I Should Be Writing
  "A podcast by a wanna-be writer for wanna-be writers. Let my stack of rejection letters and battle scars benefit you."
  (tags: podcasts writing support tips writer inspiration personal podcast publishing reference books culture english fiction fun)
• Dashwire.com
  "At Dashwire, we believe that some things are just easier to do on your computer. Dashwire’s free service automatically mirrors your mobile phone to the web, making it significantly easier to manage, enhance, and share the memories captured on your phon
  (tags: ovi services mobile web)
• BluePulse shows how you compete with Facebook and MySpace… « Scobleizer
  [hat tip to rudy. i need to give these guys another look tho, a mobile-only play...] "But why is this social network gaining millions of users when Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc are out there already and are very entrenched? Because they focused on a s
  (tags: bluepulse socialsoftware SocialNetworking socialnetworks services mobile)

Tired words: Technology

Haven't had many tired words lately (though I have had my overload of tired other-things). This one comes from an event I was at where it was way overused.

Technology - I am finding myself less and less a technologist and more and more a story person. I'm not an idiot (you can argue, if you want), I do know my tech. But, I spend more of my time searching for the story behind the solution - how is something used or hacked (as in, unexpected use and why) and how it relates to the person using it. It's my service mind. Technology is not a thing, but a tool that needs to disappear into the background. At this latest event, I kept telling folks to quit obsessing about the tech and focus on what they want to deliver to the user. The word was repeated so often, like some sort of object, that by the second day it really bugged me. All that repetition suggested to me that 'technology' was a place-holder for something that was missing that they couldn't put a finger on. And it seemed that the tech dominated over the simplest solution (hmm, sounds familiar).

You can review all my previous 'Tired Words' here on this page.

links for 2007-10-21

• Cognections: Puzzled Monkey
  I was waiting for my mates, having a Dinglefoot at the Money Puzzle, while a greek improv band with a bazuki was dancing on the tables. [A new short short story of mine.]
  (tags: story writing)
• YouTube - Fantoche (2 times)
  [Awesome bit of animation made on a wall and interacting with real world - hat tip to infovore.]
  (tags: animation youtube)

links for 2007-10-19

• Nokia’s Latest Pocket Computer (the N810) as Mobile Platform
  [hat tip MarkoA - I really like how they put this] The real news, though, is around Nokia’s efforts to build its Ovi platform. Ovi is a set of APIs that Nokia is using to create mobile Web services for its phones, including the N810. And it wants other
  (tags: nokia ovi services mobile mobilelifestyle mobilecomputing N810)

links for 2007-10-17

• Bird Lovers Only Rescue: May I have this dance?
  this bird has rythm!
  (tags: funny humor joke music nature Videos video bird animals Dancing fun)

Nokia Lifeblog on Wikipedia!

Heh, Hugo vK tipped me off that Lifeblog has a wiki page. And on that page you can find setting to your heart's content.

I think these settings can also be used in the web uploader on some Nseries devices, as well.

Way to go, Hugo!

If you could put one thing in the device hardware...

... what would it be.

I dream of a button that, when you press it, does something amazing. Not sure, though, what that amazing thing would be.

What about you?