Four legged elf
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Merry Christmas everyone
Four legged elf
Four legged elf
Originally uploaded by schickr.
Merry Christmas everyone
Four legged elf
Four legged elf
Originally uploaded by schickr.
Merry Christmas everyone
You gotta be kidding
You gotta be kidding
Originally uploaded by schickr.
At least they are honest about it
Forwarding wids in WidSets
Anina, who knows more about how to hack mobiles than I ever will, was surprised when I told her she could easily forward a wid from WidSets. Of course, she malevolently cackled about sending her 360 Fashion wid to all her friends.
Basically, you select a wid, go to the options->widget->send, enter the phone number or select from your address book, and off it goes.
If the person already has a WidSets account, it will show up in their main WidSets wid (that is, if they have it on their phone still), from which they can then add it to their collection.
But, here is another place where WidSets kicks butt – if the person doesn’t have an account, WidSets sends them an SMS to download the app with the wid already in it. AND WidSets also sends them a temporary username and password, making it really easy for them to start using WidSets.
That’s clever.
Indeed, if you haven’t used it in a while, go check it out again. There is now more interactivity, such as entering tagnames or search terms, finding new wids from the phone and loading them, and so on. Heck, you really don’t need to go to the desktop version much.
And BTW, this is Anina’s wid that she made for her 360 Fashion. I think she hacked WidSets to get it to do what she wanted it to do or look like.
Click the button if you want to get it on your phone.
Le Web 3: The end of blogger conferences?
Actually, I thought Le Web 3 was almost all past the blog world or 2005 and racing to the next wave (hey, Netvibes was a major sponsor and poster-child).
Ok, so it’s coming on to over a week – I’m just catching up with my writing. But, here is my vote in favour of all Loïc and gang did. Yeah, like I told folks there in Paris, there were some kinks, but I got everything, and more, I wanted out of the event, plus some unexpected visitors.
I so subscribe to the idea that we need to mix with folks outside our area. And, yes, TED and Davos are indeed good models to emulate, even if just a bit. We all need to make sure we are learning from folks outside our comfort zone.
So, Loïc, if you ever un-bury yourself from the conversation still going on and read this, know that I’m looking forward to the next time you pull together* a gathering of thinkers, movers, and shakers.
Link: The end of blogger conferences : Loic Le Meur Blog.
For opening the program beyond bloggers, however, I have no regrets.
You, tell’em, Loïc.
*Did you know Les Blogs started off really as just Loïc wanting to bring together a few of his friends for a chat? Yup. It’s come a long way since.
Flat rate fake out
Like at all ‘Net conferences, the folks at Le Web 3 were calling out for flat rate wireless data. Sounds great, but I don’t think most operators are prepared for flat rate data from all their customers. I think for the most part, their networks are not designed to have a ton of folks sucking bandwidth from a single cell.
Jyri Engesrtöm referred to ‘flat-rate hell’ (or something like that) – what happened to AOL when everyone started ‘getting’ online life and dialing up in droves.
As a counterpoint, Orange was the provider of wifi services for the 1000 delegates at Le Web 3. The network was really flaky (I was one of the few actually posting photos – off my N73 via GPRS). I think it was the number of base stations and all the folks trying to get on that was the problem.
Ready for that in the real world?
One other thing happened. When I finally got a stable connection with my N95 wifi, I was stuck. I am so used to wandering around when uploading or downloading stuff with my phone, that I felt trapped by the wifi. Ugh, we need wifi roaming!
Tommi Oren points out: Mobile multimedia in the real world
Tommi Oren has some links to some interesting user data.
Link: S60 Multimedia Blog.
From my position inside the S60 world, surrounded by mobile phone experts and mobile tech, it’s easy to assume that every mobile phone user is as excited about mobile multimedia as I am. It was a useful reality check, therefore, to read a couple of reports from mobile operators that describe what mobile phone owners are doing out in the real world. I was happy to find that we’re not the only excited ones – many people (who don’t work in S60) also enjoy music, video, and other non-voice applications and services on their phones.
Correction: Sorry, I meant Oren, not Tommi. Thanks, Stefan.