General

Do you feel the need to post images immediately?

Posted on by charlie

Of course, I use Lifeblog to post to my blog. Indeed, I almost exclusively post from the phone.

One thing I noticed, now that I can post anything from anywhere, I feel a bit more rushed to share moments via my blog. Basically, if I don’t post the video or photo soon after I capture the moment, I usually don’t feel compelled to do it later.

I don’t know, but I think it’s because my style of posting is to share a moment as I felt it. If I wait until later, the feeling is diminished. Most certainly, it’s not a rush due to thinking my site gets so many visitors and I need to keep it going. It’s just that my push to post is usually most felt when I capture the memory.

How do you feel when posting old images? Do you wish that your on-line site reflected you phone content immediately? How has being able to Flickr from the phone changed the way folks take and share pictures and videos?

Hmm.

Tips & Tricks

Does anyone understand trackbacks?

Posted on by charlie

Trackbacks are a great way of sending a ‘ping’ back to another blog saying that you are talking about them.

When you write about another post, you usually put a link to the blog so that your readers can go and see what you are talking about. But, there is no easy mechanism for the blog you linked to to know that you wrote about them using just URLs.

Trackbacks were devised so that you can notify the other blog. When you read the other blog, at the end of the post you want to link to, there is usually a special trackback link. Copy that link and put it in the appropriate trackback field on your post. Then, when your post goes live, the other blog will have a link to your post.

That way, there is a two-way conversation. You send your readers to the other blog, and the other blog has a way of letting their readers know that there is another relevant post elsewhere.

It’s really great. Use them often. I find it actually a matter of good citizenship and also a good service to the readers at yours and other sites.

Wikipedia, of course, has a definition. And if that is not clear, hear it from Six Apart for a more technical explanation – here.

Uncategorized

Morning fishing

Posted on by charlie
08:27 Thursday, 02 June, 2005 Image(146)
08:27 Thursday, 02 June, 2005
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08:27 Thursday, 02 June, 2005 Image(147)
08:27 Thursday, 02 June, 2005
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08:28 Thursday, 02 June, 2005 Image(148)
08:28 Thursday, 02 June, 2005
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By the Lautasaari bridge, behind the old Cable Factory

Extras

3 Launches UK’s First Mobile Blogging Service?

Posted on by charlie

Uh, where have these guys been? I take it the millions of photos and videos on TypePad, Flickr, and Text America (just to name a few) are just chopped liver?

Can someone tell me what the ‘first’ here is? Heck, I’ve been blogging from my mobile for a while now.

Link: 3 Launches UK’s First Mobile Blogging Service – Digital-Lifestyles.info.

The service, called ‘My Gallery’, integrates 3G technology and Web blogging, with pictures or videos sent from a video mobile instantly published to a customer’s unique Web site, hosted by Yospace’s Media Community Platform.

Now that I think of it, I’ve met some guys from 3 when I was in London talking about, what?, blogging from mobiles! Hey, it’s cool and all, just don’t call it ‘first’.

Statements

reboot7, 10-11 june 2005, copenhagen, denmark

Posted on by charlie

I should be here. But, I’ve been travelling too much and will skip it this time, even if I think this year is a great year to be there.

Sigh.

Link: reboot7, 10-11 june 2005, copenhagen, denmark.

reboot is the european meetup for the practical visionaries who are building tomorrow one little step at a time, using new models for creation and organization—in a world where the only entry barrier is passion.

Announcements

A pause for station identification

Posted on by charlie

As of 01 June 2005, I am also no longer part of the Lifeblog team. I wish them fun and luck in their new digs and that they can keep kicking butt and creating great stuff.

In the past month or two I have been preparing the way for my departure. That might explain why for some, I haven’t been so receptive or direct as usual. I have closed some projects, put some in some sort of stasis, and some I have found another owner to maintain continuity. I hope that the efforts I have put in to build the Lifeblog market and ecosystem, efforts which have been starting to build a good momentum, continue in Multimedia business development and marketing.

I, too, have had a great time working on the Lifeblog team and have learned so much. I have been doing venturing in Nokia for the past 4 years in different ways and this last round has really proved to me that I like the early stages of projects, where speed, excitement, rewriting the rule, and kick ass wasabi are needed.

The Finnish summer is around the corner and I am looking forward to it. We have a new puppy, friends are visiting, and I have made a list of fun projects – from starting to write a book or two to fixing the toilet 😉 – that I think this summer is going to be great.

Oh, yes, I need to figure out what I’m doing next, too.

Nah, maybe that can wait ’til August.

Link: ChristianLindholm.com: As Nokia Lifeblog transfers from Nokia Ventures Organization to Multimedia Business Group it is time for me to look for the next big thing..

Today Nokia Lifeblog has transferred to the Multimedia group to become a central component in the Nokia Nseries experience.