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Last night I had the pleasure of attending a Nokia Nseries Open To Anything<\/em><\/a> event in San Francisco hosted by the great folks at WOM World\/ Nokia<\/a>. The intimate gathering at Absinthe Brasserie and Bar<\/em> brought together a group of Bay Area bloggers and three representatives of London based WOM World<\/em>, a Nokia sponsored site that is the center of the company’s blogger relations program.<\/p>\n
The videos; “Lie Detector”<\/a><\/em>, about the wife who turns her N95 into a polygraph to keep her husband on the straight and narrow and “The Magician<\/a><\/em>“, which features a incompetent illusionist who uses Nokia Maps to get his bearings because he “never knows where he will turn up” after he does his disappearing act were actually pretty funny though I gotta question whether they will sell many phones.<\/p>\n
I thought the demos were much more effective at showing the power of S60, by using free, mostly 3rd party software to do things that no other phone (especially not the 3G iPhone) can do. tnkgrl<\/a> demoed Qik <\/a>by streaming a video of the event live to the web using just her N95-3. It worked in spite of the restaurant’s non-existent 3G and flaky WiFi. She then showed JoikuSpot<\/a> which turns an S60 phone into a WiFi router to share the phone’s 3G (actually Edge thanks to ATT’s lousy coverage) with other devices. With her N95 sitting in the restaurant’s window 30 feet away, tnkgrl and several of us used JoikuSpot’s signal to surf the web on our laptops.<\/p>\n
Yahoo Mobile developer Rahul Nair shared two of the apps he worked on at Yahoo’s Berkeley Research Lab. The first, Zonetag<\/a> uploads photos to Flickr, sort of like Shozu but with a difference, it geo tags them with coordinates from tower locations or GPS and suggests tags based on nearby points of interest. The other Yahoo app Rahul showed was Zurfer<\/a>, a location based photo browser which builds on ZoneTag to display Flickr photos taken near your current location. A couple of very cool applications.<\/p>\n
The last demo was by Ken Wronkiewicz<\/a>, a talented artist and photographer who used Shozu<\/a>, Share Online<\/a> and a 10 line server-side script to create a “Photo Stacker”. Ken shot a video with an N95 and sent it to his server using Shozu where the script extracted the individual frames to create a still photo montage and upload it to Flickr.<\/p>\n
Last night I had the pleasure of attending a Nokia Nseries Open To Anything event in San Francisco hosted by the great folks at WOM World\/ Nokia. The intimate gathering at Absinthe Brasserie and Bar brought together a group of Bay Area bloggers and three representatives of London based WOM World, a Nokia sponsored site that is the center of the company’s blogger relations program. It was a free ranging, informal session where the locals shared their enthusiasm for S60 … Continue reading