Now that we in Nokia are living a big transition, I guess it's time to learn a new mindset, and to unlearn some old mental models and habits. Please help us - me and my fellow Nokia people - to learn better the ethos, the pathos, and the logos of the world of Internet.

What material would you recommend us to immerse ourselves in? What are the top-3 items that have transformed your thinking, related to the Internet, the most during the last 6 months? (books, articles, essays, podcasts, blogs, whatever)

Yeah, I understand that you can't learn this stuff just by passively receiving wisdom: you have to learn by doing. But I guess it wouldn't hurt hearing what things have made you, my beloved readers, feel a flash of insight recently.

Windows Live Messenger for S60 3rd edition is spreading fast in the blogosphere.

I'm wondering, why aren't Nokia and Microsoft offering this officially?

The talk about Nokia becoming an Internet company is gradually starting to materialize. The big news in June, although inside Nokia an anticipated one, was Nokia's announcement to reorganize at top level into three units: Devices, Services & Software, and Markets. I love it.

As a sign of things to come, Nokia announced yesterday the acquisition of a relatively unknown - but strategically interesting - media sharing company Twango.

Carlo Longino writes at MobHappy:

I’m just not convinced that Nokia needs to get into the business of running web services in areas where plenty of established competition exists — and consumers have overwhelmingly chosen that competition.

Good point, but then again, there are almost as many Nokia users as there are Internet users on this planet (both in the magnitude of 1 billion). So I'd say that the fat lady hasn't sung yet, and that Nokia has a fighting chance, if we are able to create something remarkably cool out of this.

Carlo continues:

I’m interested to see what Nokia can bring to the table by snapping up Twango, but I hope it doesn’t come at the expense of the continued development of tools to let consumers share their mobile media to a wide range of sites. Perhaps I’m being overly cynical here, but too often in mobile closed thinking has been the default — and if Nokia is truly embracing the Web ethic, it’s got to make openness a priority, and not seek to lock its customers in to its own solutions, either actively, or by making the use of other services much more difficult.

Exactly. I sincerely believe this kind of openness is the only way for Nokia to win.