The Narrative

Le Web 3: The end of blogger conferences?

Posted on by charlie

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.

Strategy/The Narrative

Flat rate fake out

Posted on by charlie

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!

Strategy/The Narrative

Tommi Oren points out: Mobile multimedia in the real world

Posted on by charlie

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.

Strategy/The Narrative

Phil points out: How do people really use new services on their S60?

Posted on by charlie

Phil teases out some interesting data from a Nokia World presentation.

I’ve been following it since its inception, and this 360 study keeps amazing me.

Link: See into S60.

All the presentations from Nokia World are now online. There’s one in particular you should check out – Head of Software Platforms Consumer Marketing at Nokia, Esa Eerola, discussed results from the latest Smartphone 360 study. The study is something funded by S60 and is done two or three times per year.

The Narrative

Time magazine’s Person of the Year: You

Posted on by charlie

Hmm. Does that mean that this last upheaval in the way we use the ‘Net has finally reached a point where it isn’t something new, but part of the fabric of our World?

I think so.

Good job folks. Now let’s all make mobile devices and all of us who live the ‘Net through our Mobile Lifestyle the next ‘whatever of the year’. That’s the next upheaval of the ‘Net. And we’re just starting to make any sort of impact.

Now back to work.

Link: Time magazine’s Person of the Year: You – Boston.com.

“I always love it when it’s a person — and it is a person, not a computer or something like that,” Stengel said. “We just felt there wasn’t a single person who embodied this phenomenon.”