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1. Lalit wrote July 27th, 2007 at 11:39 am
   

   Hi Tommi,
   We are a bunch of people who are also trying this migration from Mobile Device to Internet / Mobile Internet to be specific. One of the most important thing which we are learning during the migration is “For Native Mobile applications, we have to hire usability experts, ask lot of people, do market research to figure our what our users want and then implement it, which usually leaves a lot to developer’s understanding and wishes. This process mainly arises from long development cycles we have in Mobile Device development.
   In Internet world its not quite the same, you have to get some simple application with basic functionality out as soon as possible, call it pre -alpha/ whatever , get user feedback, get community around it and then keep evolving as you go keeping development cycles as small as possible sometimes they are as small as a week / 2 weeks. This has a secondary advantage that your users are then more loyal to you since you took their feedback on board and made them feel important.Communities play much bigger role in Internet than they did in legacy mobile development !! It’s a world of perpetual Beta.”
   Hope it’s useful !
   Cheers,

2. .thomas wrote July 27th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
   

   keep the pipes open and let copy/paste thrive. internet is about filesharing in a broad sense. attempting to restrict and narrowly define “uses” of certain hardware and applications makes at least *me* very frustrated.

   for example, the n80 “internet” edition:
   -hardware capabilities were artificially limited (ie, no radio recording, and generally speaking, why aren’t mobile phones by now able to work as operator-independent walkie-talkies?).
   -not realizing the importance of enough ram, standard usb port, instant messaging, easy and FAST connect to wlan (in practice, a weak signal crashes the phone and still no option to automatically connect to unsecured wlan), a calendar in open standard format.

   my hopes are with ubuntu mobile edition, not with nokia any longer. but surprise me. as the man i am, i’m willing to change my mind.

3. Raimo wrote July 27th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
   

   Hi, I would recommend to watch this video of Jyri Engeström. His view on social objects changes your persepctive on things..

   Enjoy: http://momoamsterdam.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/video-van-de-presentatie-jyri-engestrom/

4. Caspar wrote July 28th, 2007 at 9:36 am
   

   In terms of the audience, I found the recent MTV/ Microsoft/ Nickelodeon survey of young people’s consumption of content and use of technology to be really enlightening…

   We covered it here:
   http://www.pocketpicks.co.uk/latest/index.php/2007/07/26/kids-are-into-connectivity-and-content-but-not-technology-itself/

   Original press release here:
   http://sev.prnewswire.com/multimedia-online-internet/20070724/NYTU10924072007-1.html

5. Niko wrote July 28th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
   

   Three things that have transformed my thinking (from big to subtle ways):

   - Feeds as the main vessel of communication. Rinsing, merging, collaboratively filtering, and comparing feeds to create personal, context specific and relevant information inputs.
   - Upcoming Adobe Photoshop Online. It probably is a very limited version of the software, but it kind of finally flipped the switch in my head to make me realize real apps on the web are possible now, not in 2010.
   - The idea of Facebook as a (potential) platform of trust.

6. Tommi Vilkamo wrote July 30th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
   

   Thanks for your pointers. Just watched the Jyri Engeström presentation, really insightful stuff!

7. Chris Vail wrote July 31st, 2007 at 1:04 am
   

   This is a popular topic all over the internet.

   My grasp of the essential internet is: agent A runs code B on machine C, where agent A acts from platform X1, code B resides on platform X2 and machine C is platform X3. Ownership and access permissions should not be assumed; they may be implicit, explicit or illegitimate.

   So, you design your mobile system with the idea that it can be X1, X2 or X3 at different times. Porting Apache HTTP server to S60 is an example. Using a cell phone to write a book while commuting on a train is another. Using the cell phone to run applications on the home network (and get results from those applications) is another. Viruses are another. You get the idea.

8. laptop battery wrote August 11th, 2007 at 9:02 am
   

   Good topical. I should learn more about internet live.

9. Mr. Gunn wrote September 4th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
   

   You really think people are going to watch a TV show when they’re out and about and then text message their friends about it? Oh, please, stop it. You’re killing me. The study mentioned above, conducted by MTV and Microsoft, was interpreted by them to mean that young people expect “TV content” to be available on the phone. However, the actual data reported don’t support that conclusion. Yes, kids do watch a lot of TV, and TV is part of their conversations, but the overall message is that they want to interact with one another, not that they want to watch existing TV shows on their phones.

   They just don’t get it, and Nokia, by making a move to being a “portal”, shows that they don’t get it either. People want to communicate, and user-generated content is just part of that communication. Kids downloading video clips doesn’t mean that people want video content on their phone, it means that they want to communicate with each other in new and richer ways.

   You want to know what my perspective-changing experience was? When I realized that mobile operators think ISPs not charging per email was a business mistake.

   Mobile operators(and, appparently, the people behind Ovi) are trying their hardest to keep people from realizing that their mobile device is just another device with a screen, keypad, and connection to the internet, but this will ultimately be unsuccessful. The simple-minded view always ends up winning out, because the majority of consumers are simple-minded when it comes to technology. They could care less about WAP, HSPDA, portals, or whatever. All they know is they have a thing in their hands that connects them to their friends and they can send messages back and forth, be it voice, text, or video. That’s it, and to think your content is somehow special and you’ll be successful at being a portal when everyone else has failed is myopic, to say the least.

   I know the operators don’t want to become glorified ISPs(hence the disabling of bluetooth, email, and file attachments), but if all people want is to communicate with one another and your business is focused on providing content, you’re kinda leaving an opening for a competitor to exploit, aren’t you?

   In summary, the ethos, pathos, and logos of the internet is removing barriers to people communicating with one another. It’s the same thing it’s always been. Email gained popularity because it’s faster and easier than writing and mailing a letter. IM gained popularity because it’s faster and easier than writing an email. Text messaging is gaining popularity because it’s faster and easier than making a phone call or sending an IM if you’re not at your computer. Anything that removes these barriers will be widely adopted, just like basic internet-only ISPs beat AOL, flat-rate data packages are beating pay-per-KB services.

   Which prompts the question - In what way does Ovi lower the barriers to communication? How does Ovi open up faster, easier, and richer ways for people to communicate with one another?

10. Dana wrote June 4th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
    

    Hello,

    My name is Dana Den Boer and I am an employee at Trent University Disability Services Office. I would like to gain permission to use a picture that was found on your website. This picture will be used as a link for an online transition course for students registered with our office. The picture I am referring to is the black and blue profile of a man with the brain highlighted.

    I look forward to hearing from you.

    Thank you,

    Dana Den Boer

11. Tommi Vilkamo wrote June 5th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
    

    Dana,

    Bought it from http://www.istockphoto.com (prices starting from $1). Try search words like “intelligence”, “insight”, “learning”, “brain”, etc.