Nokia Announces Open Source Project Site

Well, yeehaw! Nokia is publically moving forward on various Open Source projects, and guess what? Their new website for this effort is in Plone (an Open Source CMS). Now that's walking the talk. Their new site is http://OpenSource.Nokia.com.

Check out the list of projects already in progress.

I haven't been much of a fan of Nokia cell phones. in the past Never knew why - I just never bought one over the years. Actually, for a while there I did work for Motorola, so it was a matter of pride.

Seems like Nokia is making the right moves now with regards to cell phones that are more like mobile computers and NOT stripping out the features you really want. I understand this winter they will release a model that has WiFi built in. And there is a P2P software add-in (written by two students in Budapest who wanted to exchange files with their cell phones). So you can exchange files between cell phones using WiFi. NOW we're talking.

I'd drop this dumb and almost useless (in my opinion) Blackberry 7100q cell phone in a nanosecond if Nokia delivers on their promise - if I can use the new phone on Cingular service, that is.

I'm curious how this will all pan out next year. If cell phones truly become decent mobile computing devices with multiple ways to connect - 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and P2P software and other network-type applications - then that's going to impact searches. Certain businesses are going to need to carefully rethink their search strategies. And for sure, the push to use more RSS on websites will become critical because a mobile computing device would work well with mobile RSS feed readers from selected sources for the information you need while on the go.

Tom