Audio recording
Works at nokia, really strong presentation (apparently some people don’t share my opinion around here but I really thought the guy had room, managed to be interesting while it seemed he was telling us 5% of what he knows) in a nordic manner. Straight to the point, no bullshit, slow word debit.
He started by defining a mobile device: something you have IN your pocket all the time. He asked how many people in attendance have an ipod: 90% of positive answers. “How many people can show me their ipod right now”. 3-4 people. The iPod is not a portable device. Not really overwhelmed by the demonstration but at least they have a clear definition at nokia.
on devices convergence: he does not necessarily see all devices merging into one. “Half the population of this planet is made of women, and women have no pockets. They consequently care less about carrying one or two devices”
using a 3G phone regularly, he says as a daily user he’s already pushing 3G bandwidth to its limits.
In the coming years, the following things will happen:
1. mobile mass storage will change everything
We’ll be able to put our entire personal data on our phone.
2. wifi will change everything
We’ll connect to the web anywhere from different devices.
The consequences of this is the apparition of the need/possibility to log your life. And here comes Nokia’s rightfully names service: lifelog – it’s an automatic multimedia diary built from the pictures, messages and videos that pass through your phone – it’s really neat and simple, just like you would expect. Nokia put special emphasis on the horizontal scroll-bar that sits in the top of the screen, huge, feel-good button that allows you to “travel” in time. We’re still talking about a scroll-bar but the guy was excited ;-) – the quality of the multimedia content is the same as the 2 mega pixels camera (personal opinion) – you can search your pictures from the meta data – they have put a strong emphasis on meta data entry interface. Obviously this is one of the key success factor, and users hate metadating (not sure this is a happy contraction of words but…). – country data is directly embedded in the pictures and videos, the information being retrieved from the network.
Christian’s visual summary of the mobile data situation:
Nothing really new here except the notion of super data. Super data is for him meta data that may not be relevant as meta data. Example: I gave this picture to friend A. This information is meta data, but it’s not really relevant to another friend I would send the picture. Meet superdata. Later in the day David Weinberger was screaming on the same stage: “meta data is data, there is no difference”. Hum.
To finish, some appreciated (because quite unusual at reboot) bold predictions on the future: – we will access the Internet through many different screens (so forget that dream of one device to do everything). There will be, on the publishers side, tags to remove content depending on the device that is requesting it. – there will be a gigantic business around the communication of personal memories. An analysis I share: who will you trust to keep track of your life material. A commercial company that’s mining you like google, or your bank? I think I know the answer. – life recording will be mainstream. Nicole Simon will have to move beyond her wonderful recorder to continue achieving her amazing level of coolness ;-) (private joke sorry guys und hallo Nicole)
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June 14th, 2005 at 3:19 pm
hmmm live streaming … but then again, it is not podcasting anymore ;o)
thx for posting all of this, i will have to catch up the whole week ;(
June 14th, 2005 at 3:19 pm
hmmm live streaming … but then again, it is not podcasting anymore ;o)
thx for posting all of this, i will have to catch up the whole week ;(
June 15th, 2005 at 7:01 pm
I’m not sure exactly what I was screaming, but I meant to scream that there is no formal difference between metadata and data: If I search for an author by looking for the book that contains the phrase “to be or not to be,” the book content is metadata; if I search for the phrase “to be or not to be” by looking for the author, the book content is the data and the author has become the metadata. So, there’s a difference, but it’s functional or operational; you can’t tell just by looking at “to be or not to be” whether it’s a datum or a metadatum.
(Notice that I fought the urge to type the above in all caps :)
June 15th, 2005 at 7:01 pm
I’m not sure exactly what I was screaming, but I meant to scream that there is no formal difference between metadata and data: If I search for an author by looking for the book that contains the phrase “to be or not to be,” the book content is metadata; if I search for the phrase “to be or not to be” by looking for the author, the book content is the data and the author has become the metadata. So, there’s a difference, but it’s functional or operational; you can’t tell just by looking at “to be or not to be” whether it’s a datum or a metadatum.
(Notice that I fought the urge to type the above in all caps :)
June 15th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
LOL :-) I was really hoping YOU were WRITING like THIS IN BLOG COMMENTS!
I hope I faithfuly captured your opinion on the subject. On this particular matter I think both of you are right (you see, your theory coming back to haunt you ;-) ).
June 15th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
LOL :-) I was really hoping YOU were WRITING like THIS IN BLOG COMMENTS!
I hope I faithfuly captured your opinion on the subject. On this particular matter I think both of you are right (you see, your theory coming back to haunt you ;-) ).