SwitchAbit as the great data switchboard in the cloud
Just stumbled upon this (no longer remember how): Link: At SwitchAbit, Twittergram Shares a Common Future – GigaOM So what is a SwitchAbit? Think of it as...
Category: The Narrative
Just wanted to say that Nokia Conversations is live
It’s been a long slog, but the site is now as tweaked as it can get, so we removed the password protection and we’re off on a new journey. As with a...
Loïc muses – Global Or Die: Is There A Future For Local Startups?
Loïc wrote a great article (with video) on global thinking for start-ups, with a ton of great tips (link below). But, I think he’s being a bit narrow-mind...
Old calculators and future steampunk
Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge Originally uploaded by blackbeltjones Heh. My Dad also had some of these types of clunker calculators. Uh, I...
Someone has noticed what we’re doing
If we can toot our own horn, Ewan at SMS Text News gave Nokia kudos for our blogger outreach work. He’s written an article about how different device manu...
Michael Arrington gets sequenced: His 23andMe DNA Results
I haven’t been paying much attention to 23andMe. I heard about them, but have yet to dig deep into what they are up to. To me, it’s bringing genetic...
Digging up an old article on social networks that turned out to be prophetic (and a bonus!)
I stumbled upon (pushed by alexdc, I think) this old article, by Chris Allen, from early 2005 about the maxing-out of social connections (link below). What stri...
Cringley waxes anti-social
I haven’t been up on my Cringely, but reading one of my Tweeps, Oliver, led me to his recent commentary on social networks. He makes a reference to the ri...
It’s about the stories
Most of you know that I am working on setting up the Nokia social media communications site (uh, a blog for now), to be called Nokia Conversations. One thing th...
Ty Burr on ‘10,000 BC’: Yabba-dabba-don’t
Ty Burr is great. Link: Yabba-dabba-don’t – The Boston Globe: How can a film that features a poorly shot attack by giant tree-climbing killer chicke...