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Ovi by Nokia

Busy right now, but wanted to let you all know that ovi.com is what's kept me away for all this time. Oh, we're not done yet, won't be for a while, but we hope to start trickling out stuff by the end of the year.

Really exciting, if you want to know.

When I get back to Finland (I'm in London at a workshop) I'll try to tell more.

For now, go read read it here:

Link: Meet Ovi, the Door to Nokia's Internet Services:

Nokia today introduced Ovi, the company's new Internet services brand name. With the introduction of Ovi, Nokia is expanding from a focus on mobile devices to offering a range of Internet services. Ovi, meaning 'door' in Finnish, enables consumers to easily access their existing social network, communities and content, as well as acting as a gateway to Nokia services.

links for 2007-08-29

• Ovi by Nokia
  Watch this space for my baby!
  (tags: nokia ovi services web music games maps photos socialsoftware)

links for 2007-08-28

• Clive Thompson on How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense
  But here's my bet: The animating genius behind Twitter will live on in future apps. That tactile sense of your community is simply too much fun, too useful — and it makes the group more than the sum of its parts.
  (tags: sixthsense 6thsense newempathy apps article communication community emergence daily culture emotions inspiration interaction interesting internet life jaiku twitter socialnetworking social web psychology sharing social_software socialnetworks socialsoftware society presence online messaging)
• mydaytrip.com
  (tags: travel socialsoftware)
• Nokia votes "No Confidence" in their US marketing team
  History of Nokia Failures in the US Market. A good one by mojo.
  (tags: nokia america marketing business failure phones)

links for 2007-08-27

• Open-Source Biology Evolves
  (tags: biology opensource geneticengineering biotech futureofbiology)
• Intentional Biology Homepage
  By Intentional Biology we mean a rational and, as possible, controlled human interaction with the living world.
  (tags: biotech biology biomedicine futureofbiology science)
• Avec Mobile: Wi-Fi Access Point Doesn't Have to Be an Ugly Box in the Corner, but a Discreet In-Wall Element - WLAN, wireless, smartphone, laptop
  HD Communications Corp has designed an in-wall Wi-Fi hotspot that looks like another power point on the wall. The in-wall Wi-Fi access point also includes an Ethernet port, making it a new way to wire a house or office.
  (tags: Wifi design wireless)
• Hey Norton! - Ken Norton's blog - Everyone into the clouds
  What do you think it will take for average consumers to make the leap and for web-based apps to be as ubiquitous as Microsoft Office? [via Sippey]
  (tags: webos online webdev webdesign apps google)
• Steampunk (photo gallery) - The Boston Globe
  (tags: steampunk cool futurepast hacks)
• Arsebook | Welcome to Arsebook!
  Arsebook is an anti-social utility that connects you with the people YOU HATE. [via Chika]
  (tags: Facebook funny humor parody people social SocialNetworking socialnetworks socialsoftware web community internet)

Making an effort to understand the noise

Been spending the day, reconnecting to my internet-plumbed networks - Facebook (new to me, sorry), Twitter, flickr, Google Reader, dopplr, and this very site.

It was interesting to be disconnected. But, I needed a break, sort of like digital rehab.

I just might be back. And it's not because... well, I'll save that for a bit longer, just to tease.

Well, I've had a few brainwaves about noise and radio and what all these services are really trying to provide. I need to make a few notes before I can properly divulge them here (at least in writing). Nonetheless, I need to immerse myself back into the emanations of quanta coursing the internet to be able to better express and create something from this brainwave.

Yeah, I'm a geek. More to come.

links for 2007-08-24

• India passes US to become Nokia's No. 2 market for mobile phones | InfoWorld | News | 2007-08-23 | By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service
  The Indian market has been growing at a fast pace. The country added 7.3 million cellphone subscribers in June, taking the total to 185.1 million, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
  (tags: emergingmarkets india phones trends)
• London police arrest man for 'stealing' Wi-Fi | InfoWorld | News | 2007-08-23 | By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service
  Man who used his laptop to access someone else's wireless Internet connection is arrested as part of a campaign against Wi-Fi thieves [CS - Maybe educate the wifi owner? Duh.]
  (tags: humor funny wifi)

Antoine RJ Wright on: Social Networks as a Mobile Device Enabler

Antoine, upon whom I stumbled via MobHappy's Carnival of the Mobilists, has a nice thought stream on social network apps that meld well with the mobile. Ok, so they're a ton of folks talking about this, but I particularly liked his comment that:

"Mobile devices are already here as the handshake, and so the question is, what are social networks doing to get you off the computer, and get you in front of one another?"

Lately, I've kept repeating that the mobile is the ultimate social networking machine. Instead of trying to plop these services onto a mobile device, we need to use the mobile devices to FUEL our social interactions online, especially to do what Antoine says: to lead to a handshake.

In the end, it's our first life that counts.

Link [via Carlo and gang]: AntoineRJWright.com - Personal Musings:

Already living within our social interactions, mobile devices facilitate our innate ability to interact with one another, and extend that beyond the temporal to an attachment that we can reconnect at [nearly] anytime.
...
When a social network can get past the place of just engaging the connected tool to facilitating a live interaction, then we have a software service that would take the handshake metaphor appropriately into the 21st century.

links for 2007-08-23

• Boston Red Sox - Faraway faithful - The Boston Globe
  Across US, it sounds like Red Sox nation. - Yeah, the Yankees might win more, but theyve got no heart. Go, Sox!
  (tags: baseball teams sports fans)

links for 2007-08-06

• Many paths lead to dream jobs - The Boston Globe
  (tags: work life philosophy business personal career)

links for 2007-08-03

• YouTube - DEC - Glimpse of the Future, 1994
  Quaint. [hat tip to Aapo]
  (tags: futurepast internet web history)

links for 2007-08-02

• Design for the Real Mass Market
  (tags: design emergingmarkets strategy)

links for 2007-08-01

• Technology Review: Blogs: David Ewing Duncan's blog: Craig Venter: The Bill Gates of Artificial Life?
  (tags: biotech business syntheticbiology biotechnology craigventer)