It’s nice when a new app is described as “Lifeblog-like”.
Link: NetEconomie :: SplashBlog : un “Lifeblog like” pour Palm OS.
SplashBlog : un “Lifeblog like” pour Palm OS
Thanks, Jerome for the tip!
Le blog et la politique
Filling up
We’re here!
Wow! Full house.
Look at the crowd.Six Apart and Nokia France sponsored another blogging seminar, this one around blogging and politics.
Lifeblog mobile blog settings
Under the Options menu, go to Settings
Select Weblog Settings
The Username is your blog username, the Password is your blog password (case sensitive, usually)
The server address is actually what Lifeblog uses to communicate via Atom, the protocol it uses to post to the blog server. In this case, the server address is the TypePad Atom entry point. In the near future, we hope to list a few other blogs that you can post to.
Info on the Internet acess point is in the next image. But, while I am here, the Optimise image reduces the size of the image for upload. You could send the full size image, but it would just take longer.
For the Internet access point, use the open internet access point on your phone, not the WAP or MMS access point.
In case you are wondering how to make your blog settings in Lifeblog mobile (and on the Lifeblog PC). Lifeblog currently is compatible with the Nokia 7610, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6670, and Nokia 6260. The only blog service that is compatible right now with Lifeblog is Six Apart’s TypePad weblogging service.
Commercial bloggers – a new cottage industry?
I’ve had the good fortune to spend some quality time with Loïc Le Meur in Madrid, and will be spending some more time with him next week in Paris and Berlin.
It’s fascinating to listen to him talk about blogs. Each time, he seems to pull up another fascinating example of what folks are doing with blogs. Of course, many of the examples are French, but that’s not the point. I think his examples point to the creativity people have with their own blogs.
He pointed out two, this last time in Madrid and it struck me that people are figuring out ways to use their blogs as commercial tools.
The bead-trotter webjournal belongs to a talented craftswoman who makes really cool jewelry. The interesting thing is that she has used the basic photo album on the blog to show her creations and sell them via Pay Pal. Go check it out.
Another one Loïc talked about was La Fraise, run by a guy who is nuts about printed t-shirts. The blog gets an amazing number of comments. He uses a photo album to show designs and get feedback. People can even submit their own design, in true community fashion. Go see for yourself.
But, the key thing that struck me when I saw these sites is that blogs have become true tools for a new kind of cottage industry. Sure, we’ve had individual online stores for many years now, but the stores and the sites related to them were not interactive. Here, we see folks interacting with their customers in a way not possible without such ease of use.
What also struck me is that 5 years ago, when I worked for myself and hadn’t given my brain and energy to a large corporation, I was struggling to build elements of an interactive website that would allow me to publish and sell and interact with visitors to a high degree and so on. I am almost sure that if I had a blog then, I would be doing something entirely different from what I do now. If I had a blog then, I would likely have been doing something along the line what these folks have done: an easy to update blog, with good interaction with the customers, and an easy way to offer my products.
Sigh.
Airplane airplane
I know someone who collects airplane safety cards
This one was on my flight out of Madrid on Iberia
I don’t know anyone who collects barf bags, though
But on Iberia I might have collected a few bruises on my knees, the space between seats was impossible
The panel
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Talking blogging in Madrid
Loïc invited me to a blogging event on blogging and corporations.
Packed.
Standard desk picture
When you’re testing, creating content for software, a phone, or a camera, a lot of the content creation happens at one’s desk. It’s even funnier when the product is a proto you can’t use out of the office – all the content is boring stuff you can make from your desk, since you can’t take it to the great outdoors and use it like a real person.
I remember when Lifeblog was not lauched yet, I had so many pics of my desk, my monitor, the plants, the co-workers, and so on. The SMSs and MMSs were thinkgs like ‘test’ or ‘beep’ (my favorite) or just blank messages to myself. In the end, the Lifeblog that was created was really dull, or at least less dull than my real Lifeblog.