David Pitkin

It has begun, the special sauce that was facebook is fading. Things like not sending the content of a message or a wall post to your email box and just sending a link to the information on the site has now changed, due to user feedback.

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This allows me to interact with the real world and the internet in a great way, even better is if at that link I can leave a comment, or imagine the GPS coordinates where I found the link.

The address book/activity stream/presence will be a foundation of a great application, in this category plaxo has some strenght but being able to resolve/sync find conflicts between your IM, facebook, linkedin, mobile and email contact list will really start to make the mainstream user enabled by this technology instead of being overwhelmed.

I thought I would throw this up after seeing it on Thoughtfix. This is my bag for the Web 2.0 summit, I try to pack super light which is why I also like my N95 so much. I think the DS might get left in the car at the airport but we will see. I hate running out of juice hence the inflightpower gizmo and the CA-100 chargers. I also debated taking my MacBook but the NINE hours of battery in my work laptop wins out for a cross country journey. I would need four batteries to get that out of this notebook computer. Wish me luck and you can follow on jaiku. I wish I had an invite to the Nokia breakfast, anyone know anyone who will be there?

I lost the LD-3W that came with my N800 Navigation kit on one of my trips, I just forgot it on the dash of a rental car. So here is the unboxing of the fancy new LD-4W from mobileplanet.com.

The box front and back and then the contents of inside . And here is all the stuff the karabiner that it comes with is a joke, brittle crappy plastic the device itself is awesome it is a perfect size and the addition of the hole allows you to actually use it with a suction cup and not have it awkwardly around like the old style. . It has soft rubber on the back so it does not slide around and uses the standard 2.5mm charging cable that most Nseries devices now use.

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They might want to update their Event schedule.

ZoneTag was the first mobile phone upload tool I used to send pictures to flickr, created at the Yahoo! Research Berkley lab. On the Nokia 6682 it was great, even without a GPS it would upload the cell tower information and they started to build a database so you could put it on a map. This was before flickr had geotagging. The other thing they did was suggest tags based on your location, so when I took a picture at Fenway it could suggest that tag on flickr, this was in 2006.

Fast forward and ZoneTag lacked in support for my newer phones and so I turned to Shozu for a while, the thing I missed the most was when I went to upload I could not tag or set the privacy of the photo being uploaded. This was a major disadvantage for me but I lived with it, I actually uploaded all my pictures as private and then selectively turned them public, but often forgot and never went back to tag.

Now with the new N95 and new version of ZoneTag prototype there is a ton of stuff, including the ability to tag a photo with a verb/Acton Tag like !scanr:wb will tell ZoneTag that I am uploading a picture of a whiteboard to send to scanR and have it perform OCR on that picture. Fantastic.

Now if only ZoneTag used the GPS coordinates as well as Cell Tower info…

I wanted to share the list of applications and setting I have done so far for my brand new N95 today.

Installed: WorldMate for weather Nokia Maps Nokia Map Loader downloaded NH, MA and CA to my 2GB card Shozu Conversation Handy Taskman Sport Tracker Google Mail Mobile Google Maps Setup GooSync to get my calendar, the database name is “Calendar” and use the other generic settings. Synced with iSync to the Mac address book

This device is fantastic.

Thanks to the host (Orange Labs) and organizers of Mobile Monday Boston for the chance to attend a mobile social networking panel last night. I wanted to just write a few of my notes.

• Mobile Phones are great social networking tools for a variety of reasons such as they are always with you, are key content creators (camera, microphone, keypad), have access to your location and make it easy to get your attention
• Nobody mentioned 3G at all, everyone mentioned facebook ( I just created a momo boston facebook group )
• Paying for your shortcode is expensive
• The four wireless carriers in the US continue to control distribution

Event details here

Anyone else having trouble with their iGoogle homepage? Mine shows me another users content entirely. My homepage is very different than what you see here.

It is nice to see that even a Google application can be busted pretty badly. Gmail did not let me into their mailbox and correctly displayed mine. Is iGoogle beta?