Monday, September 15, 2008

Down The Rabbit Hole : Part V - We'll need a search running...

So far we have been pointing out some shortcomings of latest Nokia products, and let me assure you we are nowhere near the end of that subject, starting from little annoyances like the inability to distinguish between the the times of several missed calls from the same number to major problems like the performance of the S60 models. It is time, however, to start figuring out where those ideas and decisions come from. Our goal is to get a little insight into the mind of this great company.

It so happens that these days, we have a unique opportunity to do just that. Turns out that Nokia had organized an even called "Nokia Open Lab", which purpose was inviting representatives of social media and bloggers to Helsinki and "provoking global discussion on a mobile future". An event took place between September 11th and 13th, this year, just a few days ago. As far as I understood, it was first even of this kind.

Beside the materials from the event itself which are available online and will undoubtedly allow us to shed some light on the Nokia thinking and ideas, it would also provide an updated list of people who were invited and thus are interested and participating in the process. Those people have blogs which should be nice to explore in order to achieve our goals. The event was also attended by one of the most important people in Nokia, certainly for our cause, Adam Greenfield who, accorging to Wikipedia is, "head of design direction for user interface and services".

A really good place to start searching for answers...

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