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In my last post, many of you got caught up in the fact that you can sync iTunes with a Nokia N95. Of course I know there are third-party tools that can do this, but that wasn't really the point. The real point was that for convergence to really take hold, the integration into the various aspects of our lives has to be seamless and it has to be that way in the box, meaning without third party add-ons. The integration that the iPod has with iTunes is simply an example of how easy that integration has to be.
Certainly one area that the Nokia N95 has a leg up on over some of the competition is in photo sharing and mobile blogging. Tools are built-in that enable this fairly easily--but only if you use Flickr and Typepad respectively. You can use the built-in Lifeblog with Vox or you can use the Vox Mobile application for tighter integration. If it weren't for Lifeblog and/or Vox Mobile, I would almost never update my Vox blog!
That being said, there could be more integration with more services in these areas, including video sharing sites, and the integration needs to be in the box. I would also take it a step further--we also need integration with new services that haven't even been thought of yet. Adhering and actively promoting open standards that are in-use by others is one way to ensure in the box integration with this new generation of services.
What are some ways Nokia could enable better in the box integration? Share your thoughts in the comments. I can't promise our ideas will make it into future products, but I have no doubt they will be read and considered.
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Good Points!
Look at how Shozu let's you connect to essentially any service you want, I'd like that from Nokia. The Flickr and Vox exports are fine, but take many more clicks are not as featured as what Shozu can do. Shozu though limits the real power of these new N-series by only allowing a 4MB video upload... Nokia could easily just let the (power) user do what they want with their multimedia computer.
Enable and Empower ...
Posted by: Jonathan Greene | May 23, 2007 03:30 AMI'm going to disagree with Jonathan. Shozu is one of the most unreliable applications I've ever seen. So far it has failed on a Nokia N73, N93, N80i and N95. And for what it's worth, it was just as bad on a Treo 700W and Motorola Q. Shozu exhibits nothing but potential of what an app could do if it were well written, but apparently it isn't. I'll not be in any hurry to install it again and break a phone once more. Best case is reload firmware and reload the phone. Worst case, the phone turns into a brick and has to go back to Nokia.
Shozu - Bad Mojo. And the developers are donwright unresponsive in my book. All talk, no action and deplorable support forums.
Posted by: Ken Camp | May 23, 2007 05:08 AMI'm not suggesting Shozu be the app included... sorry if that was not clear. I'm suggesting that Nokia take the Shozu approach which lets you upload to any service and include that function for the power users... Flickr and Vox are nice, but there are MANY more places I want to be sending my content.
Posted by: Jonathan Greene | May 23, 2007 05:20 AMYeah..in my opinion shozu is a memory hog. Waht we need is some lighweight widget like app that runs in the background and implements the best features of mgmaps + the geotagging of shozu. I have come across one such app called "8 motions" .Although still in the beta stage ..it has a gps mapping , gps tracking , geo-tagging and buddy tracking ..all built in one nifty java app. check out my blog for a full review.
Posted by: Ray | May 23, 2007 09:58 AMI would prefer if you create a User Profile app/db that would store all the web services a person may subscribe to - it may even include your email settings. Then give it an API for applications to consume the data. In this way, instead of hardcoding Flickr and Vox - btw what happened to Typepad? - to an Image or Gallery application, the user's subscribed services for Blogging or Photo Sharing come up. The same concept applies to Video, Music or any other Web 2.0 category out there. What's the side benefit? Third-party developers can use the same API for their applications and users get great ease of use since they'll input their info only once. Additionally, users will use the services they want to use, not the ones Nokia decided on their behalf - not a Web 2.0-ish thing to do.
Posted by: Jose Marinez | May 23, 2007 07:34 PMThe integration with Flickr and Vox in the Nseries Gallery is not hardcoded. Those services support the same Atom protocol as Lifeblog. The Gallery will support upload to any other service that supports this protocol, if the service creates an appropriate config file.
You can find more information about this protocol in the comments to this post from the S60 Multimedia Blog:
Posted by: Oren Levine | May 23, 2007 10:31 PMhttp://blogs.s60.com/s60multimedia/2006/11/fun_with_flickr_statistics_1.html
wqw
Posted by: shailendra | March 30, 2008 11:53 AM