Nokia Lifeblog

13 March, 2004 4:35 PM

Next week Nokia will release their Lifeblog software which is an interesting development in both the blogging and mobile phone industries.

Here is an excerpt from a Guardian article about Lifeblogs:

'Nokia Lifeblog is designed to be a repository for the photographs you take, send and are sent on your mobile phone (although it will also import snaps taken with your digital camera). The interface, as previewed in Online this week, looks slick and carefully designed, avoiding what Lindholm refers to as "geeky" clutter.

The application's single window holds text messages and video clips, already labelled by compatible Nokia phones, with information on who sent what and when (using the mobile cell information). The software will acquire the messages either when you dock your phone via a cable with your PC, or when you connect PC and phone via Bluetooth.

What happens next is perhaps the most appealing feature of Lifeblog. The software gathers the various bits of media and arranges them in chronological order: picture messages, SMS texts, video clips and annotations (added later), just like Lindholm's friend's lifebook.

Unlike a physical book, however, the Lifeblog can be searched - Lindholm calls it "Googling your life" - using the information attached to each item. You can also move through the collection, by clicking on a weblog-like calendar or by scrolling horizontally. You can deposit "favourites" back on the mobile phone to carry with you. And picture message by picture message, text by text, a record is built up, the phone moving from being a communication device to what Lindholm calls a "life recorder".'

For more news and opinion on Nokia Lifeblogs check out:
- See what the BBC has to say about Nokia Lifeblogs
- DM Europe announces Lifeblgos and also says Lifeblogs are not real blogs
- Nokia Phones to Log your Life
- Nokia Lifeblog - a Diary for the Digital Age
- Nokia Lifeblog Press Release
- Phone Content - Nokia Lifeblog
- Removable Media For Our Minds

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