Jan

8

Recording of culture started with messages painted on rocks and caves. Ideas behind pictures held on and on. People gathered around the place to experience the message. Years passed and visitors changed and the message transformed into something else, maybe it was lost.

Millenia passed, and the message did become easier to transport. All sort of scrolls and plates have been shattered against the tides of time, but many of them still remain. However the nature of information changed. It wasn’t about the location or ritual anymore, but about the movement. You could pass on information.

Today books are too long to be read through, stories too long to be followed. If we have information with us at all times, we never stop to consume it, we nibble and lack focus. Which message will stand the test of time, let’s say five minutes?

Cave painting text messageIf you had the patience to read this far then you better continue reading John Puterbaugh’s fantastic article about Mobile 2.0.

Jan

7

Kind of magic

January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Cigarett smoking girl It’s like smoking, dangerous, sexy and mystic. It is all about being in control and thereby being respected by others. Hey, don’t you respect the one who controls the smoke? Don’t you envy the people who hurt themselves. Smoking is a ritual of pain. If you never did it, there’s no way your face will have such an orgastic expression on your face, and you know it.

Girl in a phone lightPopular culture has cultivated this image ever since the Queen started to do it. You noticed the girl, yeah? Well, she’s having a cigarett. She might as well have a mobile phone, especially a brand mobile phone. Yes, that’s how you do it today.

Sony Ericsson is giving the power of control to the people who own a specific Sony Ericccssson (don’t you just forget how to spell it?) mobile phone. Brilliant, brilliant! I want one. But how do they do that?

Z555 has one truely, truely, truely cool, even chilly feature – you can mute the phone with a wave of your hand. Just think of the respect that you will get at any board room when that annoying little thing shuts up with a commanding wave. You really must know magic, world obeys your every whim. You will see people in Starbucks, reading a book, carelessly whisking their hand to general direction of their phone, doing everything in their power to show that they just don’t care. This phone model will sell.

Jan

6

This is our first blog carnival and there is no better way to start than with a bang at the Carnival of the Mobilist, which is now hosted by Mobile Point View.

For some time now, Nokia has been touting their new content service called Ovi. This word comes from Finnish language and means ”door” in English. As we all know, doors close doorways and therefore do not connect people.

door

Unimaginative word games aside, Nokia still ventures outside their traditional slogan. By providing us with a portal of mobile content, Nokia doesn’t help us to connect with people but with content. How they do it is that they garner copyrighted content and package it into mobile form. Boring.

This is an ancient business logic from old-school movie and television distribution business. Just take a brief look at any TOP10 box-office list and guess if entertainment business is lucrative or not. Yes, you guessed it right, it is an expensive game of marketing.

Now take a look at any hot mobile application, they all include some form of social aspect. People are connected with other people and they are having fun. In best case they are having fun without any bought content, they just rely on conversation. Yes, conversation!

I don’t understand why Nokia is abandoning their well-served mantra of ”connecting people” and welcoming stagnated forms of business like ”providing content”.

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