Snowy road
Originally uploaded by schickr.
Looked pretty cool to me.
Football dome
Football dome
Originally uploaded by schickr.
It’s huge. The first time I saw this, I was in a plane and didn’t know what it was. The second time I saw this I was shocked and went through a red light. Ha! It’s actually pretty nice inside. And there are some good stories about it already.
Re-Believe!
At a recent meeting, we were discussing Internet services, past and present. I then made the comment that many of the ideas we are coming up with now were already trying to sell back in 2000, that we shouldn’t be jaded and knock down ideas, just because they didn’t work then.
I don’t know where he got it from, but one of the guys put up a slide from 1995. It was a good laugh, if scary. Except for the krappy artwork, obsolete gadgets, and Nokia’s ancient logo, the concept could have been worked up yesterday.
Then I said that back then, we really believed in what we thought the future would be like. Now, we need to ‘re-believe’ all those old ideas.
Heh heh.
WINKsite Manifesto?
David is back and revamping his baby, WINKsite.
This post here (link below) is really good at providing the background and motivation behind WINKsite, and I can surely say it delivers on this promise. Indeed, this post looks like the WINKsite Manifesto.
Read it and learn and sign up.
Link: David Harper’s Different Things – One World. No Borders. 2.5 Billion Connected Citizens..
More mobile phones than PCs are connected to the Internet, but the connections are needlessly complex. Each mobile carrier, each brand of phone, and sometimes each model, place a heavy technical burden on mobile publishers. What if Yahoo had to re-do its web site for Dell, HP, Apple, and others — with modifications based on whether Internet connection is Comcast cable, AT&T DSL, or T-Mobile Wi-Fi? That’s exactly what Yahoo endures on the mobile Internet for Nokia, Motorola, Cingular, and Verizon Wireless.
WINKsite is going through a major facelift
Wow. Dave told me it was coming and I’ve been waiting and waiting.
WINKsite’s Web site is going through a major overhaul and, while the old is still a bit mixed with the new, I’ve seen enough of the new to be excited.
I am still interested to see how the channels will be overhauled. I think over the past few years, they’ve been able to determine which are the most important to provide. I think the original had too many channels.
But, if the things are made easier, then it might not matter how many types of channels they offer.
One cool thing, already, is that, when you are viewing a site in the desktop browser, you can easily bet the code to embed, do QR Code, send link to phone, and so on. Really great.
Go check it out.
Oh, and my WINKsite info is in my right side bar (moved temporarily to make place for the Le Web 3 banner).
Link: David Harper’s Different Things � Blog Archive � Pssst. Winksite Changes Under Way..
Well, now it’s time to respond. We’ll be building upon what we have learned and go deep for a while. Expect regular, iterative releases over the next 90 days. I’ll post our thoughts throughout and be interested in hearing yours.
So, if you are inclined head over to Winksite to see what’s brewing. Some of what we are up to will be immediately clear, while other aspects will be apparent over time.
Good samwitches with funky pickled veg
Good samwitches with funky pickled veg
Originally uploaded by schickr.
Does anyone know what that pickled veg is? From far, I thought it was an olive, but it wasn’t and I’ve no clue. It’s a bit bitter and has many small seeds. Great
Dog, snow, trees
Dog, snow, trees
Originally uploaded by schickr.
08:58 Tuesday, 07 November, 2006 Image 196 I love to walk in these woods.
Dog, snow, trees
Dog, snow, trees
Originally uploaded by schickr.
08:58 Tuesday, 07 November, 2006 Image 195 I love to walk in these woods.
Icing on the lake
Icing on the lake
Originally uploaded by schickr.
15:41 Monday, 06 November, 2006 Image 194 Actually, it’s a bay off of the Baltic Sea – Keilaniemi, looking out of our Nokia House stairwell. But, the Baltic is almost like fresh water, that it freezes. We had a few days below zero, and the smaller bays were already getting a sheet of ice. The poor doofus who still had his boat in the water was apparently working on getting that boat to somewhere safer – after I took this pic, I saw that the motor was running.
Pan-European MVNO from l’il ol’ Finland – Blyk
So, here we have it – an MVNO centered around advertising (link below). We knew these free MVNO’s would pop up (it’s late and the name of that con-job free MVNO in the US that disintigrated like a two speeding ferraris in a head-on escapes me at the moment).
To me, what’s scary, is that I know a lot of these folks – at least from work. Yes, it’s practically a who’s who of media and mobile types from Finland (mostly ex-Nokia and ex-contrators of Nokia – it’s a small country, so that’s usually the case).
The CEO, Pekka Ala-Peitilä, ex-president of Nokia, and whom we used to call P.A.P., is an amazing guy and many of us were quite upset when he left Nokia. I bumped into him over the summer in a Helsinki airport lounge and, in a very un-Finnish way*, went up to him, said ‘hello’, made some chit-chat, and then, point-blank, asked him what he was up to.
He politely smiled, in his characteristic way, and said he had some things brewing.
Now I know.
But, what’s with the name?
Link: Blyk.
Time and time again it amazes me how fast people – be they young users, advertisers, partners, investors or new members of our team – understand the profound innovation of Blyk.
*yeah, so that was foollish. so what? but why should I treat him differently just
because he was so smart, rich, and was instrumental in transforming some boot and eletronics firm into a multi-billion euro
world-leader? heck, we’re practically peers.
yeah, right.
americans….