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SMS Message as Mind Freak Blurry clip from comedy club in Berlin From: iankennedy Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 00:38 More in Comedy
Facebook as a 17th Century Page Blurry video from a comedy club in Berlin From: iankennedy Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 00:41 More in Comedy
While we’re making lists, Finland topped another one earlier this week with the launch of the Oasis of the Seas which was built in the STX shipyard in Turku, Finland. 1,180 feet long and grossing 2...
Now that I live in Finland I was not able to drop in on the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Here’s how I’ve been keeping up with the goings on: Selected talks on YouTube. They have a channel so ...
MultiTouch 46" LCD In production now, 46" can be linked to other screens to make an array of 8. One screen will set you back 11500 Euros. Took this video at Mindtrek in Finland in 2009. multitou...
Great article in Ad Age about the significance of location-aware phones made the rounds yesterday. It’s not about the ‘text a Starbucks coupon when you walk by” type use case, it’s about engagement...
Opera has a cryptic splash page on it’s site announcing something wonderful in the near future for mobile browsers. What will it be? Intomobile says that hints can be found in the source (I couldn...
Parachute? Who needs a Parachute? From: iankennedy Views: 3 0 ratings Time: 00:25 More in Sports
Parachute? Who needs a Parachute? From: iankennedy Views: 3 0 ratings Time: 00:25 More in Sports
A Nokia colleague of mine here in Finland had a charming update to an age old scenario. In this scene, the older sister, who is 13, is saying she has a crush on a boy in her school. It’s a boy in h...
I have a feeling this is going to be a regular feature. There are many things that are different here in Finland. Here are just a few that I’ve learned about in the past few weeks. Speeding tickets...
This past weekend we headed out to the Heureka Science Center about a 20 minute train ride North of Helsinki. There are a ton of interactive, hands-on exhibits which I took photos of but this wheel...
The weather in Helsinki has been fantastic the past week. T-shirts and Keen sandles type warm. We’re even sleeping with our windows open in the evenings. Today we swam in the ocean! Share ...
Wheelchair Game At the Heureka museum in Finland. This exhibit teaches people how to operate a wheelchair. You can see that it takes some time to get the hang of it but once you do, you have a n...
Wheelchair Game At the Heureka museum in Finland. This exhibit teaches people how to operate a wheelchair. You can see that it takes some time to get the hang of it but once you do, you have a n...
Wheelchair Revolution Game At the Heureka museum in Finland. This exhibit teaches people how to operate a wheelchair. From: iankennedy Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 01:23 More in Gaming
Wheelchair Revolution Game At the Heureka museum in Finland. This exhibit teaches people how to operate a wheelchair. From: iankennedy Views: 19 0 ratings Time: 01:23 More in Gaming
Erik Schonfeld at TechCrunch posted a thought-provoking piece on real-time search. Twitter and Facebook are falling over each other in the media spotlight, fighting to be the place to go to find ou...
In 2005, the helipad of the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai was converted into a tennis court for a promotion featuring Agassi and Federer. Share
My sporting alter-ego is taking time off from pitching for the Yankees after recently getting surgery for numbness in the arm. I’m even prouder of my son’s namesake who won the Stanley Cup after j...
Life-sized Mousetrap, take #3 - success From: iankennedy Views: 17 0 ratings Time: 01:02 More in Science & Technology
Life-sized Mousetrap, take #3 - success From: iankennedy Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 01:02 More in Science & Technology
Life-sized Mousetrap, Take #2 From: iankennedy Views: 3 0 ratings Time: 00:20 More in Science & Technology
Life-sized Mousetrap, Take #2 From: iankennedy Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 00:20 More in Science & Technology
Life-Sized Mousetrap, Take #1 From: iankennedy Views: 3 0 ratings Time: 00:16 More in Science & Technology
Life-Sized Mousetrap, Take #1 From: iankennedy Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 00:16 More in Science & Technology
Maker Faire - Battle in a Bathtub Scale model warships made of balsa wood fire ball bearing cannons at each other in team warfare. Filmed at the 2009 Maker Faire in San Mateo. From: iankennedy V...
Maker Faire - Battle in a Bathtub Scale model warships made of balsa wood fire ball bearing cannons at each other in team warfare. Filmed at the 2009 Maker Faire in San Mateo. From: iankennedy V...
Baylor on Middlesex Baseball From: iankennedy Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 03:07 More in Comedy
Baylor on Middlesex Baseball From: iankennedy Views: 31 0 ratings Time: 03:07 More in Comedy
Jay talking about old tyme baseball at Middlesex From: iankennedy Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 00:56 More in Comedy
Jay talking about old tyme baseball at Middlesex From: iankennedy Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 00:56 More in Comedy
Jay talking about John Stephens eating goldfish From: iankennedy Views: 23 0 ratings Time: 00:42 More in Comedy
Jay talking about John Stephens eating goldfish From: iankennedy Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 00:42 More in Comedy
Promoting new features of the Nokia E71 with Taiwanese magician Liu Qian performing a little street art. I can’t wait for the SMS-a-pigeon feature when it comes out. Share
This is really well done. In honor of Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office, Slate has mocked up a parody of his Facebook page. Remember, What will Facebook look like in 40 years? Share...
Comments left by developers in the dead of the night are inside jokes left for others. Little winks of comic relief left for others that will be parsing through the sub-routines trying to wrangle s...
It’s obvious when you think about it. Instead of spending your energy throwing up hundreds of ads that dance around the edges in the hopes that one will magically trigger a random click of interest...
I am not sure what to make of this. I’m all for making toys realistic and all but working at Nokia, we’re all about trying to make mobile mobile devices more playful and fun. So it’s weird to see a...
I thought about sending this feedback directly to Noovo but it’s important to warn others and also have a place to point all the people who have received Noovo’s auto-invite and replied back to me,...
CNN wonders if the Barak Obama’s new phone is the Sectéra® Edge™ (love the multiple super-scripts in the product name!) by General Dynamics. Features include a “classified key” that you flip when ...
For the past several years I have hitched my name to the phrase social media. I used it as a handle to describe the mix of blogs, photos, status updates, and other methods of personal broadcasting ...
Amazing images of today’s Presidential Inauguration from 400 miles up posted on VentureBeat.
I didn’t travel much in 2008 but Dopplr’s year-end summary sure makes it look pretty.
My son was featured in yesterday’s Sunday New York Times in an article (At First, Funny videos. Now, a Reference Tool) about the unforeseen use of YouTube as a research tool. We all associate video...
Featured at last week’s Japanese iPhone Developer’s reception hosted by Six Apart I saw Finger Piano, a cool little app that allowed you to play the piano on your phone. As the bars move down towar...
From the not quite sure about this department. Spend a lot of time sitting on the bus or train with your handbag in your lap wishing you could catch up on all your favorite TV shows and movies? Bag...
This post is for my own notes - a bunch of stats about traffic on the blog and the social networks to serve as a reference point for next year. top post of the year - Barack Obama’s Speechwriter is...
In the absence of any real substantive announcement from today’s MacWorld, people are talking up a fictional device announced by The Onion, the MacBook Wheel. I’m assuming you’ve already seen the v...
According to the Register, LG Electronics is gearing up to offer a wristwatch phone at CES next week. There are two ways to look at this announcement and I’d be really interested to hear what peopl...
Following up on yesterday’s post about more unique uses for GPS, here’s some stuff I’m running on my Nokia E71 which I’m finding really useful. Traffic Pilot - download the client to your phone and...
With low cost GPS tracking devices, it is now make it economically feasible to electronically “tag” people and things that you love. A couple of examples: Lobster Pots Celebrities such as Simon Co...
I’m still in the Gee Whiz phase of my learning about the mobile phone industry. The ease at which someone uses SMS to text a cab reservation in Helsinki taught me to look at SMS as a command line f...
Last year in April, I put out an open wager that one of the top 100 newspapers in America would stop printing it’s daily paper. The wager had a long horizon and the service changed hands from somet...
When devices get more personal, it is increasingly more important for people to brand their device to signal their personality. Watches have always been a popular vehicle to carry corporate brands....
Looks like they were shooting it for a movie of some sort. This was a practice run. Author: iankennedy Keywords: tokyo 267 Added: November 27, 2008
Shibuya Bike Skillz Looks like they were shooting it for a movie of some sort. This was a practice run. From: iankennedy Views: 23 0 ratings Time: 00:07 More in Sports
Shibuya Bike Skillz Looks like they were shooting it for a movie of some sort. This was a practice run. From: iankennedy Views: 5 0 ratings Time: 00:07 More in Sports
Most phones in Japan are flip clamshell phones. They are now getting so thin that this one uses a button on the side to open it and features a mirror on the front making it effective...
Japanese flip phone - Panasonic W62P Most phones in Japan are flip clamshell phones. They are now getting so thin that this one uses a button on the side to open it and features a mirror on the ...
Most phones in Japan are flip clamshell phones. They are now getting so thin that this one uses a button on the side to open it and features a mirror on the front making it effective...
Japanese flip phone - Panasonic W62P Most phones in Japan are flip clamshell phones. They are now getting so thin that this one uses a button on the side to open it and features a mirror on the ...
Cool animated clock. Author: iankennedy Keywords: cellphone japan Added: November 27, 2008
Japanese Cellphone Idle Screen Animation Cool animated clock. From: iankennedy Views: 91 2 ratings Time: 00:13 More in Science & Technology
Japanese Cellphone Idle Screen Animation Cool animated clock. From: iankennedy Views: 276 2 ratings Time: 00:13 More in Science & Technology
I know nothing about the rumors swirling around Nokia launching an MVNO in Tokyo for their high-end Vertu brand but a quick poke around the vertu.com gives you a sense of what (besides diamond encr...
Image via Wikipedia Ted McConnell, General Manager of Interactive Marketing at Proctor and Gamble at a recent forum on digital media held in Cincinnati (where P&G is based) when speaking about ad...
Techmeme is hiring someone to tweak their algorithms. It’s a new kind of role but one which I think we’ll be seeing more of in the future; in newsrooms and in corporate PR departments. When it’s so...
What do you call a mobile phone that comes with a built-in address book, browser, camera, GPS, music & video player, projector, voice translator, razor, coffee brewer, and harmonica? A hoax! ...
I’m in Finland this week visiting Nokia, my new employer. The Finns use SMS for everything including late-night spot loans. Last night at dinner, one of my colleagues texted a taxi service and with...
If you have a camera that writes geo data to the photo’s EXIF header - flickr’s new Import EXIF GPS preference is the simplest way to geo-tag your data. I like the way the preference text is writte...
Jan Chipchase is a research anthropologist at Nokia who travels the world and studies how people interact with technology. His blog (future perfect) is a fascinating stream of one off thoughts and...
Sharing location has become much easier but it brings up a lot of new questions. Who owns the data, what can you do with this data? Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Media has been exploring these issues ...
Image via Tucker Weinmann I flew back from Denver last night on a plane full of Obama volunteers who were working Colorado to get out the vote. The pilot reported during the flight that McCain had...
Wow, and I thought California’s Proposition 8 was a bad check out what folks here in Colorado have to vote on in Proposition 48.
See latest stories on Yahoo! News I’m traveling today so I mailed in my absentee ballot weeks ago. Without a real pin, I’ll sport a virtual one.
A recurring theme at this year’s Defrag conference is the concept of a flow app (see Stowe Boyd post from last year) which I loosely define as an aggregator that brings together multiple informati...
Ugh. In the middle of moving files around on my home Windows PC the filesystem was corrupted and I lost access to my files. I knew the files were there but the the few configuration files that Wind...
I leave you with this quote to ponder over the weekend. I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks...
For crying out loud - this is what’s wrong with the US legal system. A former judge is suing for a pair of pants lost by his dry cleaner, not really about the pants but more their promise of guaran...
Getting up to speed here at Nokia after joining three days ago - lots of institutional knowledge tucked away across the intranet which features a bewildering array of internal blogs, wikis, and vid...
Thank you Daniela for pointing me to Clay Shirky’s keynote at Web 2.0 Expo last week in New York. In it, Clay gives a talk on Social Networks, Lifestreaming, and Privacy. It’s a timely talk as lif...
Facebook said last week that they aim to be the next Mobile Address Book. Just like the address book on my Blackberry connects with Yahoo’s corporate LDAP servers to look up the latest phone number...
One of the benefits of pulling all your data together is that you can overlay data sets on top of one another for further insight. I only noticed this today but Pacific Gas & Electric’s
Shares of United Airlines dropped 75% yesterday because of a poorly designed template. The Google News blog has all the
Congratulations to my neighbor Eve Pearlman who is challenging herself to
Alameda, the island I live on, is cut off from easy access to the local rapid transit system. Residents need to cross one of three bridges or a tunnel to make it to a BART station. Some people (inc...
It’s that time of the year again. My wife is running in this year’s Komen Foundation Race for the Cure. If you have some spare coin, please make a tax-deductible donation to this worthy cause.
When I moved to Alameda four years ago I was struck by the beauty of the local movie palace. It was clearly from a different time, built before VCRs and DVDs, when going to the movies was a social ...
Julia's Kindergarden Graduation (2) More from Julia's special day From: iankennedy Views: 27 0 ratings Time: 00:33 More in People & Blogs
More from Julia's special day Author: iankennedy Keywords: ki Added: June 13, 2008
Julia's Kindergarden Graduation (2) More from Julia's special day From: iankennedy Views: 30 0 ratings Time: 00:33 More in People & Blogs
Julia's Kindergarden Graduation Julia's graduation ceremony From: iankennedy Views: 74 0 ratings Time: 00:55 More in People & Blogs
Julia's graduation ceremony Author: iankennedy Keywords: kindergarden Added: June 13, 2008
Julia's Kindergarden Graduation Julia's graduation ceremony From: iankennedy Views: 38 0 ratings Time: 00:55 More in People & Blogs
Listened to a great IT Conversations podcast the other day in which Jon Udell and John Buckman (founder of Magnatune) had a great exchange on the future of online music. Once the iPhone 3G enables ...
The success of distributed commenting systems such as add a link in the comments section so that people reading the original post could follow the discussion over to the new blog post Trackback w...
I could never figure out how banks and securities dealers talked themselves into loaning money to people that common sense would tell you never could repay their obligation. Listening to this episo...
I noticed a big drop in the number of Feedburner subscribers to my blog over the past few days with the number of subscribers dropping nearly 50% starting sometime Thursday last week (May 8th). I n...
As of tomorrow, First Class postage is going up from $0.41 to $0.42. I bought a book of Forever stamps a couple weeks ago and as of tomorrow they are worth a penny more. That’s a 2.4% gain in just...
You know you live in a small town when the local PTA message board posts the following: We lost one of our black silkie chickens near Santa Clara and Court. If you see a small black chicken roamin...
There are so many things I could say right now about Microsoft walking away from the table this past weekend. More than anything, I feel like someone peering up over the parapet and looking at the...
Eric Berlin writes about the differences between Friendfeed and TechMeme. Therefore, perhaps we can say that Techmeme aggregates what’s important about tech and Internet news and easily provides li...
One of the best talks at this year’s Web 2.0 Expo was Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus. In it he suggests that modern television is a, “cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwis...
Sometimes it’s the simple things. Last week we switched on another piece of the microformats suite and all MyBlogLog profiles now support vCard and hCard formats. For more details, see the MyBlogLo...
Just re-discovered Dipity which was a cool tool for creating timelines. They now have jumped onto the lifestreaming bandwagon and provide a way to publish and share a portion of your lifestream in ...
I’m paraphrasing the title of this post from David Recordon who threw this line out following a chat I had with him a couple of weeks back. It’s a very insightful observation that predicts opportun...
Inside Facebook noticed that the thumbs up icon no longer on the Facebook mini-feed. All in the name of simplification says Facebook but to me it seems like they’ve removed a sense of control over...
Nice write-up in the San Francisco Chronicle of our local, 49-seat movie theater in Alameda. It’s a one-man operation with the same guy who takes your tickets and serving you popcorn also running t...
A new type of Bluetooth headset hits the market today that offers a unique service for busy travelers on the go. Listening in on your conversations, the Concierge by Sony Ericsson offers helpful t...
I’ve been doing a lot of posting on the MyBlogLog blog lately because the boys have been busy shipping a number of enhancements to the service that have really changed the nature of the product. Wh...
Julia on the silver rings Big step up From: iankennedy Views: 24 0 ratings Time: 00:16 More in Education
Julia on the silver rings Big step up From: iankennedy Views: 24 0 ratings Time: 00:16 More in Education
Big step up Author: iankennedy Keywords: monkeybars Added: March 23, 2008
The Netsquared Mashup Challenge applications are in and now it’s time to vote on your favorite of the 122 that have been submitted. It’s all for a good cause and the projects listed here are good i...
A common complaint overheard at the recent Graphing Social Patterns, ETech, and South By Southwest conferences has been that increased friend invites on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter...
Julia's Recital (2) Julia's kindergarten recital From: iankennedy Views: 127 0 ratings Time: 00:30 More in Music
Julia's Recital (2) Julia's kindergarten recital From: iankennedy Views: 43 0 ratings Time: 00:30 More in Music
Julia's kindergarten recital Author: iankennedy Keywords: kids Added: March 7, 2008
Julia's kindergarten recital Author: iankennedy Keywords: kids Added: March 7, 2008
Julia's Recital (1) Julia's kindergarten recital From: iankennedy Views: 34 0 ratings Time: 00:10 More in Music
Julia's Recital (1) Julia's kindergarten recital From: iankennedy Views: 54 0 ratings Time: 00:10 More in Music
A panel discussion at GSP West with myself, Bret Taylor (FriendFeed), Kevin Marks (Google) and David Recordon (Six Apart) on the rollout of shared activity streams as part of the latest revolution ...
Sun Microsystems' electronic leash Sun Microsystems engineer shows off the radio controlled remote that looks like an invisible leash.More info at http://www.sunspotworld.com/productsEtech 2008,...
Sun Microsystems engineer shows off the radio controlled remote that looks like an invisible leash.More info at http://www.sunspotworld.com/productsEtech 2008, San Diego ...
Sun Microsystems' electronic leash Sun Microsystems engineer shows off the radio controlled remote that looks like an invisible leash. More info at www.sunspotworld.com Etech 2008, San Diego Fro...
a recent manicure prompts a naming session Author: iankennedy Keywords: fingers manicure Added: December 19, 2007
Naming your digits a recent manicure prompts a naming session From: iankennedy Views: 34 0 ratings Time: 00:13 More in People & Blogs
Naming your digits a recent manicure prompts a naming session From: iankennedy Views: 33 0 ratings Time: 00:13 More in People & Blogs
Julia Reading Julia reading for the first time. From: iankennedy Views: 36 0 ratings Time: 01:39 More in Education
Julia Reading Julia reading for the first time. From: iankennedy Views: 33 0 ratings Time: 01:39 More in Education
Julia reading for the first time. Author: iankennedy Keywords: reading kids Added: December 9, 2007
Zou Ren Ti's Body Double Robot At the Robogames show in San Francisco I saw Zou Ren Ti's "Body Double" robot. Can you tell which one is the robot? From: iankennedy Views: 2367 2 ratings Tim...
Zou Ren Ti's Body Double Robot At the Robogames show in San Francisco I saw Zou Ren Ti's "Body Double" robot. Can you tell which one is the robot? From: iankennedy Views: 2011 1 ratings Tim...
At the Robogames show in San Francisco I saw Zou Ren Ti's "Body Double" robot. Can you tell which one is the robot? Author: iankennedy Keywords: robot Added...
Cool Glowing Japanese Cellphone the latest from Fujitsu - hot red with a cool blue glow.Still picture at : http://www.flickr.com/photos/clankennedy/384792400/ From: iankennedy Views: 848 2...
the latest from Fujitsu - hot red with a cool blue glow.Still picture at : http://www.flickr.com/photos/clankennedy/384792400/ Author: iankennedy Keywords: cell...
Cool Glowing Japanese Cellphone the latest from Fujitsu - hot red with a cool blue glow. Still picture at : www.flickr.com From: iankennedy Views: 973 2 ratings Time: 00:08 More in Howto & ...
Trampoline jump shot with a three way lay-up. Author: iankennedy Keywords: basketball Added: January 15, 2006
Harlem Globetrotters Trampoline jump shot with a three way lay-up. From: iankennedy Views: 8068 5 ratings Time: 00:09 More in Sports
Harlem Globetrotters Trampoline jump shot with a three way lay-up. From: iankennedy Views: 8273 5 ratings Time: 00:11 More in Sports
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