Molecularist

My thoughts precisely.

Link: the mobile experience � Blog Archive � Aggregating it all.

The service I’m envisioning here would provide access to search, blogging, feeds, bookmarks, image libraries, maps, calendars, contacts etc. so that the user could choose between different service providers for any individual functionality and provide that as an packed and polished end-to-end service.

First person account on choosing stealth mode versus open discussion of a new business.

Thanks for the perspective.

Being part of a huge super secretive company (Nokia), I often wonder if we all need to reassess our secrecy levels. There are so many reasons to maintain secrecy, but I think those reasons change over time. Indeed, I think sometimes, extreme openness can be strategically beneficial to a company, even for some reasons BJ highlights.

Link: BJ Fogg’s Weblog: Stealth mode is overrated.

Roland’s actions here point out a problem with making apps for mobile phones. On the one hand, the most recent version of Lifeblog mobile does not work on Roland’s  (not even a year old) phone because the Lifeblog team decided to leave the 7610 behind, since updating every version of the mobile app is insane (there are now at least 3 Lifeblog versions for different groups of phones, sheesh!). Also, following this trend, the next version will likely leave behind current phones (really!). Sigh.

ShoZu has the same problem, but it’s a simpler app (relatively speaking), so they can settle around features that work on most Series 60 (or S60) phones. But, so many cool apps have been dying on my N70 until an update is made (oh, when will Series 60 be a platform?!).

Yes, Roland, ShoZu is cool and is really what you need. Have fun! I liked it too, but didn’t switch to it because I still (barely) and using Lifeblog for easy backup of my phone stuff (barely).

Link: Roland Tanglao’s Weblog: Hello ShoZu, Goodbye Lifeblog.

If you want to upload lots of flickr photos from your Series 60 phone, I highly recommend ShoZu. I have stopped using Lifeblog and will now upload my pictures using Shozu? Why? ShoZu doesn’t have a s*lly "4 photo at a time" upload limit like Lifeblog. ShoZu uploads automagically in the background, detects loss of GPRS and re-connects unlike Lifeblog. In short ShoZu was designed from the ground up for flickr and wasn’t designed with a "mobile phone and Windows PC are the center of my photo universe" mentality which applies maybe to 1 or 2 people 🙂 but not to me!

To me, this update to Bloglines Mobile tells me that they have a mobile-savvy person in there who groks how folks want to use a mobile feed reader. And, it reminded me of some other nice little touches they provide, such as image reductions and so on.

Use it!

Link: Bloglines | News.

Do you often find yourself reading Bloglines on your mobile phone with too many feeds and too little time? Well, we’ve got great news. No, we’re not selling you gecko lizard insurance. But we have made it easy for you to create an abbreviated mobile version of your feed list so you don’t have to scroll past dozens of feeds to get to those you have time to read.