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Nearness: a non-contact sport

Ben Green — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:02:25 +0000

Getting liked all over the internet:

*Just cut to the chase and give them the Nobel, that’s what I say.

Worldwide Facebook Mobile Usage Up 300% In Last 12 Months

Ben Green — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:09:45 +0000

INSIDE FACEBOOK — Today at the Nokia World conference in Stuttgart, Facebook’s Director of Mobile, Henri Moissinac, announced that Facebook’s worldwide mobile audience just crossed 65 million active users. To put that in perspective, that’s nearly 25% of all of Facebook’s total worldwide reach – and four times as many people using Facebook Mobile than this time last year…

via Worldwide Facebook Mobile Usage Up 300% In Last 12 Months | socialmediaBiz.com.

Can imagine that’s causing some angst for carriers.

The Nokia App Store is Coming

Ben Green — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:56:33 +0000

And it’s called Ovi.

Demo of Clutter from Maemo 5

Ben Green — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:40:06 +0000

“One of the most significant additions in Maemo 5 is the Clutter library, which facilitates rapid development of rich graphical user interfaces. Support for Clutter on top of OpenGL ES 2.0 will enable developers to completely redefine the Maemo user experience. Clutter provides a scene-graph system and frame-based animation engine for displaying and manipulating graphical elements. It can be used to implement rich visual effects and sophisticated interactive user interfaces that stretch beyond the boundaries of conventional widget toolkits.”

Clutter Demo

“The extreme versatility of Clutter makes it highly conducive to innovative user interface design, but also creates some challenges. There are no constraints to ensure basic consistency between Clutter-based user interfaces. Nokia will have to provide some clearly-defined guidelines so that third-party developers will be able to make Clutter user interfaces that don’t detract from the visual cohesion of the platform.”

src Nokia will bring bling and finger-friendliness to Maemo 5

Superphones

Ben Green — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:19:34 +0000

“Superphone” doesn’t seem to leave us with many places to go for the next generation of … IncrediPhones?

GigaOm: The Rise of the Superphone

Nokia’s Mobile Design Showcase

Ben Green — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:59:26 +0000

Lists 10 of the best mobile sites and apps, judged on Ease-of-Use, Interaction design and Visual WOW.

The PDF is available here.

It’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

I think some of the judging sounds like it comes from the software feature list. Like Shozu:

One click uploading to over 30 online social networks, blogs, photosites, and other popular
Web destinations

You can add tags, titles and descriptions to the photos before uploading.

Photos and videos can be geo-tagged (on a GPS enabled phone)

I also think they’ve avoided iPhone apps. Google Maps on the iPhone is better integrated, looks better and probably runs faster (i’m guessing). Facebook on the iPhone has sweet interactions and looks better than on S60.