Interrelativity

Category: Nokia

  • Leaving Nokia, Joining MyStrands

    It seems like just yesterday that I was writing enthusiastically about joining Nokia, and then about my excitement about working at Nokia on an ambitious new project (related to Context, Content and Community) at an ambitious new lab (Nokia Research Center Palo Alto), but in fact it's been over a year since the initiation of…

  • Mobilizing Social Software / Socializing Mobile Software: Nokia Mobile Mashup

    Nokia held its second Mobile Mashup on Thursday. The theme for the event was "the future of mobile social", and we had a series of conversations on and off stage about how social software is and will be mobilized, as well as how mobile software (and devices) are being socialized. [Disclosure: I work for Nokia,…

  • Active Words, Hyperactive Reading and Hyperconnectivity: Buzz and Scoble at NRC Palo Alto

    Buzz Bruggeman and Robert Scoble visited NRC Palo Alto yesterday and presented at our Thursday Lunch Forum. Buzz demonstrated ActiveWords, a Windows utility for customizable keyboard macros that can launch applications and/or insert text in an application. One of his examples was using a few keystrokes to launch Outlook and create an entire email message…

  • Universal, Empowerment, Partnership (Pop!Tech 2007 pre-conference session)

    Michele Bowman, the host for our Pop!Tech pre-conference Wednesday afternoon session on "The Future of Mobility", started off the session by inviting each of the 40 attendees – and the three panelists -  to introduce themselves by stating their names followed by up to three words (a "three word introduction" of sorts). It was a…

  • A New Generation of Proactive Displays

    We launched our new proactive display application at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto two weeks ago. The application – provisionally called the Context, Content and Community Collage – situates online content in a shared physical context to foster a greater sense of community, representing a convergence of the core themes of our Context, Content and…

  • Radical Transparency: Revelation, Reputation and Reciprocity

    The current issue of Wired has a great feature on radical transparency, highlighting the benefits that accrue to CEOs who are open to revealing their shadows, and exposing the risks to the reputations of those who continue to embrace secrecy and/or duplicity in their self representations. As with many Wired features, it is provocative ……

  • Fino, Finis, Finnish: Jukka Soikkeli’s Farewell Party (and the Power of Passion)

    We celebrated Jukka Soikkeli’s 20+ years at Nokia Research Center at Cafe Fino in Palo Alto last night. Besides learning about Jukka’s penchant for Corvettes, and some of his tangible and intangible contributions to (and through) Nokia, it was noted that Jukka is a prototypical Finn: a man of few words, the wisdom of which…

  • Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you

    David Whyte's poetry and narratives in the 6-CD collection, Clear Mind, Wild Heart: Finding Courage and Clarity through Poetry, continue to inspire me. The title of this post is taken from his poem, Sweet Darkness, in which he writes about darkness, tiredness, belonging, freedom and coming alive.  This past week, I recognized that I have…

  • Working at Nokia on Context, Content and Community

    We recently posted an external web page for the Context, Content and Community project I’m working on (and playing with) in collaboration with some of my new colleagues here at Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto. This is, by definition (or at least by name), a rather broad and ambitious undertaking. As we summarize it on…

  • Web-2-Mobile Business Plan Competition

    I was surprised that Nokia was not among the sponsors of the recent Under the Radar Mobility Conference I attended, at which 32 entrepreneurs pitched their mobile products and services. A number of other major players in the mobile web space were represented at the event as sponsors and/or panelists, e.g., Motorola Ventures, Intel Capital,…