These are my del.icio.us links for January 20th:
- "New Ovi Maps, Nokia Seeks Location Heaven" @GigaOM when will Nokia sell a $5 Ovi Maps iPhone app? – Nokia has a great chance to really innovate in the GPS and map space in India and other emerging markets. Yet I remain a little skeptical. I've always abandoned Nokia maps for Google maps instantly as one was quick, reliable and free.. and yet always having access to maps is a real advantage. Great Nokia is now free! I'll download the latest versions for my Nokia's. Upgrade will be difficult!
Still users in this country are unlikely to change their phones or adopt Nokia just for Ovi Maps. Nokia could use OviMaps to get back into my consideration set. If Nokia really has better software, usability and availability (cheap vs TomTom app/ then expose OviMaps to iPhone users. This would help Nokia learn faster from an always on crowd that really does understand the mashup potential and social location opportunities. Beating Google on Nokia phones isn't the issue. Global adoption is. Spread it across platforms.
- Life, on the Net, is too short – Hugh Macleod to no longer blog his cartoons via @hjarche – Are we really seeing the death of blogging? I don't think so. I still have a post title "Conversational Blogging" – Go on Google it!. Hugh reflects on the loss of conversation and the fragmenting of it. I've seen and felt the same. What's happening is our blogging platforms are failing us. They are failing to make it easy enough to bring conversations back to us. Sometimes we want and need a fragmented cloud however for the most part we need tools that enable us to keep our lives simple. I think some of the best examples are the Twitter updaters. I think there is lots of opportunity for blogging. Hugh's another signal that all is not right in blog platform land. More importantly he no longer sees it as rewarding. The word blogging may disappear and the idea of a post will certainly carry on. Here comes the "public post" where no stamps are required and anyone can read.
