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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
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