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Re: Completely, totally FAILED by Google Maps and Blackberry in Paris

Mike Bradshaw — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:16:17 -0000

+1 for Nokia Maps.

I was in Berlin over the Weekend, and having installed the German maps to SD card was able to get exactly where i needed to be every time.
And the best thing - no roaming data charges!

Re: MTVMusic.com is pretty damn cool - RussellBeattie.com

Mike Bradshaw — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:51:08 -0000

great, except it only works in the US of A

Re: MIR: Whatley on the Nokia N97

Mike Bradshaw — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:17:27 -0000

@whatleydude, i think i am closer to the front of the line than you being as i live in Espoo rather than London ;)

I am seriously hoping that as Devices is now once again one devison, the build quality of the E series finally comes to the N series, and as both Whatley and Ben have said, Nokia *must* get the software correct for this as it comes out of the gate!

Re: Nokia N97: The Whatley POV

Mike Bradshaw — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:17:27 -0000

@whatleydude, i think i am closer to the front of the line than you being as i live in Espoo rather than London ;)

I am seriously hoping that as Devices is now once again one devison, the build quality of the E series finally comes to the N series, and as both Whatley and Ben have said, Nokia *must* get the software correct for this as it comes out of the gate!

Re: My arse with Twitter. Help.

Mike Bradshaw — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:12:31 -0000

there was a recent blog post about the two types of twitter user - conversation and announcement (of course i can't find the link now :( ), and how they both think the other one is doing it wrong.

this http://twitter.com/hotdogsl... is my favorite quote about conversations on Twitter (especially as everything else; Jaiku, Friendfeed, Rejaw etc does it *so* much better)

regarding the use of the "back-channel" at conferences, this post http://designswarm.com/blog... struck a chord with me (although i have only been to a few conferences in Europe)

@jonmulholland Dopplr does the serendipitous meeting thing a lot better than twitter *and* has a much lower level of overhead

Re: My arse with Twitter. Help.

Mike Bradshaw — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:13:45 -0000

fewer updates even though you follow multiple people due to the fact that most people don't travel that much (single city per day or less)

To keep up with twitter you need to login every day (or multiple times per day) to kep up with the constant cahngin of status, the Dopplr people seem to have tried to keep that to the absolute minimum required, whilst you still can get benefit from it.

Not sure about you, but for me at least there has been a recent "flood" of activity due to Dopplr asking for the answer to some questions (prompted via email so low overhead == i can do it when/if i want)

Re: Finnish geeks say goodbye to their beloved Jaiku

Mike Bradshaw — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:39:04 -0000

i would not say that they are turning their back on Jaiku, but that for a sub-set there is potentially more value from Twitter.
From what i saw in that thread (via Google translate) and the comments on Ville's post, most people already had twitter accounts but were still active on Jaiku.

Also, Jaiku seems to have a much more of that small social circle thing going on, where whole conversations are happening in different native languages, tiwtter seems to be much more in English.
Possibly related to this is that on Jaiku the number of followers and following seems to be closer to the Dunbar number (150) than on Twitter, which would suggest, to me at least, that the links are deeper and stronger.

What is most diappointing is deafening silence from the Jaiku team following these events (SMS down and feeds not working).

Re: Jonathan Jensen on Thursday Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Mobile aspirations of a 14 year old

Mike Bradshaw — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:24:50 -0000

curious as to why a slider form factor is on the list?

Surely as this phone is going to take a beatin (15 year old BMX & skateboarding), so a mono-block (like the 6120) makes more sense.

Also, does not the need for Windows Messenger imply some sort of data rate?
which i understand to be rather rubbish.

Re: Firefox mobile comes to Symbian

Mike Bradshaw — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:38:47 -0000

well if it is a native app and not Java (like Opera Mini) and is free, it is likely to be *VERY* popular, as it is up against the inbuilt S60 browser which i have yet to see anyone give a more positive reveiw than "well it does not suck as much as i thought it would" after first use.

Re: Mippin knocks out Android client in 3 days

Mike Bradshaw — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:14:25 -0000

From what i saw at mobile DevCamp (http://mobiledevcamp.nl) in Amsterdam, building Android apps can be as easy as editing some XML.
The hard part was getting all of the pre-requisites downloaded and installed.

Re: A Twitter Debate with James Whatley

Mike Bradshaw — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:21:56 -0000

for those frustrated with Twitter come to Jaiku.

Twitter has lots of people, but you need to learn how to get the best from Twitter.
Don't feel bad if it does not make sense, the biggest question around twitter, after "how will they ever make money?", is "what is the point of this?"

Re: Nokia’s E90 replacement leaked

Mike Bradshaw — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:04:25 -0000

i don't see this as an E90 replacement, as MartinSFP said, E70+E51 or alternative form factor to E71

the high res internal screen is a major feature, and makes the E90 a potential laptop/netbook replacement.

For me, the N97 is actually a more likely replacement (better hardware, but only slightly lower resolution screen)

Re: Rethinking Zipiko

Mike Bradshaw — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:55:55 -0000

regarding calendars:
- export/import of standard formats,
- for cloud based ones (if possible) link them so that comments updates etc are auto updated (OAuth?)

i like the visual clues icons idea, seems similar to the Jaiku post icon

Re: The Inaugural MIR Developer’s Event

Mike Bradshaw — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:28:43 -0000

any chance the team wants to swing by Helsinki after MWC?

http://mobiledevcamp.fi is happening on Saturday 21st Febuary, and reading this, thought you might be interested

Re: Google Maps know where you are

Mike Bradshaw — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:32:11 -0000

I would say that it is the child of Jaiku more than Dodgeball.

If you see the comments by @Jyri in this thread http://jyri.jaiku.com/prese... and @mikie in this one http://mikie.jaiku.com/pres... and we are now seeing the result of what google did with the brains from behind Jaiku whilst they kept on working on Jaiku in their 20% time.

Re: MIR Show upcoming cities!

Mike Bradshaw — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:45:13 -0000

Err, has no-one told you that everyone is on Holiday in July in Finland?

Almost all offices are running on "skeleton" staff as everyone takes their annual 4 week break in the countryside.
The weather is normally at it's best then (warmest days, lots of daylight etc), so everyone heads out of the city if they can.

Re: Mr Operator on Google Latitude: No One Saw This Coming

Mike Bradshaw — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:55:56 -0000

as Alex Kerr points out, it is the MNO who are holding us back.
It is the fear of a bankruptcy inducing bill, along with memories of being ripped off for SMS & alls when roaming from years ago that holds many of us back.

The first MNO to offer a sensible data roaming package (alerts when you are getting close to your expected limit etc), possibly with dual sim (so one can be used in one of those 3G USB modems that are so popular now) should get killed in the rush.

Re: MIR Show – John Strand of Strand Consult

Mike Bradshaw — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:58:26 -0000

not the easiest web site to navigate or find content on (http://www.strandconsult.dk/), any chance we could get some links from John on his predictions?

Re: MWC: An emerging theme?

Mike Bradshaw — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:28:00 -0000

While true that Apple is making lots of money from it's app store and there is potential for a battle between operators and handset manufacturers, the most sensible ones will make agreements.

The *really* clever operators will stop development of their own app store, and become what we want them to be - dumb pipe delivery and billing, as this costs less to provide so they can squeeze down prices (as they don't need to pay for the development and maintanence of an AppStore)

Re: Help - The problems of relying on a service

Mike Bradshaw — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:31:14 -0000

i feel your pain, i really do. i think Jaiku went invite only just before announcing the aquistion by Google (i assume done as a defensive measure to prevent the servers melting due to huge number of people wanting to give the latest Google service a poke)

Personally, i am betting on @Jyri to get it all working togeather, and the Open Source relase of Jaiku to combine with the growing efforts to get all of these things working togeather.

The interesting stuff (for me at least) is often in the comments and the serendipidty of finding intersting people via the contacts of your contacts effect combined with seeing the same username over time.

The challenage facing many of us, the long term Jaikuista, is what to do while we are waiting. We have grown used to the method and effects of Jaiku, and almost no other service seems able to replicate that.
Brightkite is probably the closest i have found so far, but the interface is "very busy" after the simplicity of Jaiku.

Re: Failed by my technology on the way to Prague

Mike Bradshaw — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:48:04 -0000

i thought blackberries used Standard USB cables to charge with, are you telling me you could not get a loan of a USB cable, or that you did not have one?
The wierd iPhone connector i can forgive, you could never find one of them in an airport ;)

Re: Nokia’s ‘actively looking’ at entering the laptop business

Mike Bradshaw — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:08:33 -0000

err, is everyone forgetting that Nokia already have a device that is sort of in this market - the N810.
Runs Linux (aright the customised Maemo distribution), is small, has connectivity, long(ish) battery life etc

Granted, it seems that the N810 is *too* small for the general public, but with Nokia's knowledge of ARM (and how to squeeze battery life while still keeping performance), and ARM showing off those netbooks at MWC, does not take a genius to join the dots

Re: Failed by my technology on the way to Prague

Mike Bradshaw — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:20:56 -0000

My bad, i can normally find a USB port somewhere, or have something with one with me (hotel desktop/kiosk PC, ask someone if you can plug into their laptop etc)

Re: Everything you wanted to know about Skydeck, by Jason Devitt

Mike Bradshaw — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:12:29 -0000

yeah, liked that one, but funnier was the following reference to one dinosaur being faster than another :)

Re: Everything you wanted to know about Skydeck, by Jason Devitt

Mike Bradshaw — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:14:03 -0000

working now