Comments on: Nokia Debuts Friend View Beta, A Location-Aware Microblogging Application

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Nokia Beta Labs Introduces New Apps: Ovi Lifecasting, Social Messaging — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:17:29 +0000

[...] experimental research project from Nokia Research Center. We covered the app, which was basically a location-aware microblogging tool when it was introduced in November 2008. CrunchBase Information Nokia Information provided by [...]

By: att phones » Blog Archive » "Nokia Friend View"

att phones » Blog Archive » "Nokia Friend View" — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:26:39 +0000

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By: VeilleMarketing.ch» Médias Sociaux » Nokia lance Friend View, son réseau social local

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:14:28 +0000

[...] Organiser des RDV spontanés avec vos proches (dans un lieu public ou non). Plus d’infos ici : Nokia Friend View via Beta Labs, sinon tout est expliqué ici : Le service est donc très intéressant sur le papier avec en prime une bonne complémentarité avec la version web, mais doit faire face à une concurrence très rudes de la part de services déjà établis comme DodgeBall, BrightKite, Loopt, Moximity ou encore de services français comme DisMoiOù ou Webcity. Pour le moment ce service n’est disponible que sur la plateforme Symbian (propriété de Nokia, cf. Rachat de Symbian par Nokia : le monde du mobile à nouveau bouleversé) et ne semble pas bénéficier de l’héritage de Plazes (racheté en début d’année : Germany’s Plazes Acquired By Nokia). Visiblement les premières impressions sont plutôt mitigées ( First Impression Of Nokia Friend View) mais nous pouvons faire confiance à Nokia et à sa force de frappe pour faire rapidement évoluer ce service. LA grande question reste maintenant de savoir d’ici quand ce service sera disponible sur les autres plateformes (Windows Mobile, Android, Blockberry et surtout iPhone). (via Techcrunch) [...]

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By: raj

raj — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:25:34 +0000

I’ll prefer a web application which can work on any mobile phone. I’m already using the mobile web site http://fonet.mobi which has lots of features besides social networking, blogging etc.

By: maestroalberto » Nokia Friend View: il microblogging secondo Nokia

maestroalberto » Nokia Friend View: il microblogging secondo Nokia — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:14:18 +0000

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By: Tag The World—One Tweet, Yelp, and Flickr At A Time

Tag The World—One Tweet, Yelp, and Flickr At A Time — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:01:26 +0000

[...] such as Plazes (now owned by Nokia), Brightkite, and Nokia’s new Friend View app all combine social communications and location information, making them visible on a [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:36:53 +0000

If only you knew a little about Nokia’s corporate organisation, you’d soon recognise the underlying reasons for this. Nokia is the definition of organisational confusion – no wonder market confusion follows.

That said, I think this is a glimpse of the future and once this kind of application is tweaked and polished, it’s going to become commonplace on all mobile phones.

By: Loren's Mom

Loren's Mom — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:45:30 +0000

I have an e71 running s60 3.2 with podcast app version 1.10.1 and it doesn’t have that feature. I went to http://www.noki....com/podcasting and the version there for download is Nokia_Podcasting_1.00.3.SIS which sounds like an older version. (Another example of a Nokia website being out of date?) On the iPhone when there is a new version of an app, it tells me and lets me install it with one click. On the Nokia I somehow have to know there is a new version and then track down the proper version. I can’t find a later version than 1.10.1 on the Nokia sites… What version is supposed to have this feature?

By: J

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:27:39 +0000

Lauren’s Mom – the podcast app does remember where you stopped playing last. That has been integrated into S60 3.2 phones, and might have been backported into the lastest S60 3.1 firmware releases. Just keep adding your comments, someone will listen!

By: Alfie

Alfie — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:48:44 +0000

Nice but where does Friend View fit in the context of Nokia viNe?

http://www.nser....com/madebyhand

By: WIRELESS « Daily Marauder

WIRELESS « Daily Marauder — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:00:48 +0000

[...] on Friend View, it locates you as an avatar on a map and shows you all your friends as well. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/07/nokia-debuts-friend-view-beta-a-location-aware-microblogging-ap… [...]

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:16:19 +0000

RIP Loopt!

By: Loren's Mom

Loren's Mom — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:55:14 +0000

Nokia… market confusion? That’s an understatement. Nokia is the definition of market confusion. There are so many “projects”, “research experiments”, websites, technologies hanging around Nokia, many aren’t updated regularly (even the supposedly active ones like Mosh), are not supported, and are frankly, pretty crappy. I won’t even mention the hundreds of different phone models.

The other big problem with Nokia is they build something and don’t finish or polish it. So then there is an (official) free crappy Nokia product and other companies won’t bother to build something to compete in that space because they can’t predict what Nokia is going to do (potentially put them out of business.) Take for example the Nokia Podcast app. It’s a pretty good app but it’s missing a few features that would make it truly usable (like remembering the point in a podcast where you stopped listening the last time.) So that’s the end of it… no one is going to bother to build another podcast app and Nokia will never fix theirs.

Yet another problem with Nokia is their reliance on the phone companies to do their sales and marketing for them. No wonder there is customer confusion regarding Nokia products.

Unless they get their act together quickly, Nokia will completely lose the (smart)phone war. They may end up a commodity phone maker but I can’t see them able to compete in that space for long.

By: Gary Barnes

Gary Barnes — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:54:18 +0000

Even though I have the E71, which has amazing battery life, I’d still rather not have one more program sucking juice from the device. Even Nokia’s new push-based email service seems to noticeably drain my battery more than I’d like. I’m all for location-based networking, but less power intensive means of positioning must be developed first.

By: Kaitsu

Kaitsu — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:51:13 +0000

I’ve been playing around with it for a while and i like it. Ville was too harsh on it

By: jason@tinycomb

jason@tinycomb — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:28:05 +0000

With Nokia as the smart phone leader, and also having the power to move this app onto every deck they manufacture, will this become an immediate threat to mobile social networks like Loopt and ever-growing Twitter? It certainly will look like it is on paper at first. Now we have to wait and wee the kind of usage it gets.

By: Nokia’s Plan To Enter The Micro-Blog Business: Create Our Own And Put In All The Decks : tinyComb

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:26:01 +0000

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By: Jeremy "pcnerd37" Bray

Jeremy "pcnerd37" Bray — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:09:24 +0000

This wont work for smaller cities or towns. {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/IBpnnjAxhh_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”This wont work for smaller cities or towns. ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/76f9UZiB6p”}}}

By: phenom

phenom — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:25:37 +0000

@TOM ROFL

http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: priyankeshu

priyankeshu — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:10:19 +0000

why does nt my blog comes under the responses ?

By: Tommi Vilkamo

Tommi Vilkamo — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:10:05 +0000

Robin, thanks for spreading the word!!

To clarify, Nokia Friend View is a research experiment, not something being deployed to the mass market, nor something built to last (as such). It partly overlaps with mainstream Nokia solutions like Nokia Maps, Nokia Chat, and some other stuff in our publishing pipeline. We had a long internal discussion about whether or not to launch Friend View publicly, due to potential market confusion. In the end, we decided to just go for it – in order to learn with our user community – and try to minimize the confusion with clear communications.

Hope this clarified our intentions… Anyhow, glad to see that you found this app worth attention!!

Take care,

Tommi Vilkamo
Manager of Nokia Beta Labs

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:36:11 +0000

Go to time stamp 0:21, where he says, “…Allows you to share what, how and who you are doing with your friends.”

WTF? It tells WHO I am DOING???

By: Victor Martin

Victor Martin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:34:31 +0000

It isn’t the same as twitxr??

By: Nokia Friend View beta » Mircea Scarlatescu

Nokia Friend View beta » Mircea Scarlatescu — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:13:40 +0000

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