Nokia Social, Different Tack, and Mental Models of Mobile Social Networking

Upon moving to the Nokia N8 as my primary mobile, I have taken a good bit of time on reevaluating my communication needs, especially around social networking and email. For the most part, I am offloading some of the larger thinking communications (email, RSS reading, and blogging) to my iPad. The more immediate communications (text, media messaging, voice, and social networking) finds it’s way on the N8. Doing this has changed my attention span towards and the way that I interact within those modes of communication. It has also changed how much value I ascribe to those channels and behaviors.

Relationships and Events as a Mobile UX Paradigm

A few days ago, while writing the piece on the N9 actually, I was reviewing some comments on Twitter when I saw this one by Martin Geddes:

Refreshed Poetry Template

When doing some importing of my poems for this new compilation into the template that I developed, I went to work on some niggles and issues that I had. It ended up being a good bit more than a small bug fix and so I’m re-releasing the original template that I created, with a niggle for now being able to add images in here as well.

Poetry for ’11-’12: Words & Pictures

I’ve kinda of settled on a theme for the 2011-12 poetry compilation. The title of this one will be Words & Pictures. And as with last year’s, there’s something of a story that goes along with this.

Nokia N9 Pre-Reflections

Though I’ve not had many posts in the past week (1 maybe), I have been paying attention to news and notes around me. One of the more interesting pieces so far has been the announcement of the Nokia N9. Being a fan of the Maemo/MeeGo platform, and an occasional contributor and commentator, I’ve been interested in seeing what Nokia would be doing with this device. Unlike some of my mobilist contemporaries, I’m more impressed than I am perplexed.

Pandering To or Needs Of

I’ve been pretty occupied with ICCM the past days because of MMM, and much of my time there has focued me to take another hard look at what my aims are with the mobile technology that is in and around me. Sure, I’ve got goals to see this used and understood in a manner that I think would be best for the world around me, but that’s not necessarily the goals of all. The recent introduction of the Nokia N9 has me questioning once gain whom I’m mobile for – me or someone else?

Rethinking the Camera Lockscreen Button and Mobile UX

I don’t usually think about the camera button on my mobile devices. Its there. I assume that it will be ready when I need. And aside from maybe a confirmation to unlock the device, it just works. So, do mind my silly brain when I find that one of the new features coming for iPhone/iPad devices is the ability to take a photo right from the lock screen. It feels like a design compromise instead of the solution to a problem.

How I Work: Presentations

Maybe this is something that will become a series of sorts here. Seems like a nice idea considering I last talked about documents and collaboration. This time around, I’d like to talk about presentations and how I use them and how I’d like to better utilize them.

Biking in Philadelphia/York PA

It has been a long time (2004) since brining my bike through Philly/York and getting a chance to ride some. As I’m slowly making my way across the state to a conference, I thought that it would be a good idea to ride, and the weather has so far rewarded me nicely.

Nokia’s Battery Performance Evangelism

One of the features of mobile devices that’s not advanced as fast as other pieces has been battery life. Yet, every once and a while there is a device maker that does something neat on this account that makes it all worth it.

How I Communicate and Collaborate with Groups Around Me

I have to admit that I’m a when zealous when it comes to collaboration and communication. I tend to write a ton, usually very detailed, and mostly with too many words. And if you would see the amount of information that I simply read all day, the writing and communication that comes from that is probably near-impossible to detail as well. In short, I take in and send out a ton of information. And therefore, I tend to have all kinds of slanted perceptions towards collaboration and communication.

Managing Multiple Calendars on My Nokia N8

One of the ways that I use my mobile device is to help me keep a handle on the contacts and events that I deal with. I’ve got a lot of overlap between them – usually contacts – and so when I chose my latest mobile device, the Nokia N8, one of the features that I looked for in it was the ability to manage half of things with Google’s suite of services.