S60 Open to new features

While I don't work for S60 Marketing, I have obviously been "helping" in that area promoting Nokia and S60 through this blog as well as my own blogs. Unfortunately, I've been unable to attend any of these cool S60 parties.

However, the upcoming event in San Francisco couldn't have happened at a better time. I'm way overdue for a visit to the home office in Mountain View--just down the 101 from San Francisco--and it's a great fit into my personal schedule.

I am very excited that I can make this work. I wouldn't miss this party. If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area or can make it there on the 23rd of October, get on the guest list now! I look forward to meeting all you S60 fans in the Bay Area.

I do wonder, though, when we'll see an Evening with S60 event up here in Seattle?

The folks at Worth1000 are running an interesting Photoshop contest where people are taking ads for today's products and placing them in retro-style ads.

For those of you not from the US, or are not up on your history, Rosie the Riveter (pictured below) was a cultural icon in the US during World War II. The US Government used Rosie in various media of the day to encourage women to go to work to support the war effort.

I couldn't resist sharing this photoshopped picture of Rosie the Riveter sporting a Nokia device.

(Photo by brypro63)

Those familiar with Nokia's history know that Nokia's been around since 1865. We weren't selling phones back in the 1940s, but if we were, I'd bet a woman like Rosie would be carrying Nokia device!

Here I was blogging on the See Into S60 blog, and then I suddenly stopped. The powers that be decided that it would be better if I had my own blog on the S60 site, as opposed to commandeering the See Into S60 blog. Unfortunately, that process ran smack into the middle of the summer holidays in Finland.

Of course, none of this stopped me from blogging. I had plenty to say on my personal blog and elsewhere. No shortage of interesting things to write about.

The Convergence Zone is an exploration of the convergence of software, services, and features onto mobile devices. What's on your device? How do you use it? Where and when do you want to use it? What are some of the implications of all this? These topics and more are fodder for discussion here at The Convergence Zone.

The name of the blog came from a weather phenomenon here in the Seattle area the local meteorologists call the Puget Sound Convergence Zone. It's basically where the winds coming off the Pacific Ocean split by the Olympic Mountains will "converge." Given the topics I wanted to cover here, The Convergence Zone seemed like an appropriate name.

Hope you all follow along as I take this journey into The Convergence Zone. If you see something you think I should cover, leave a comment here or send an email to dwelch -at- s60 dot com.