I’ve just installed Nokia’s Mobile Web Server on my phone (doesn’t work on an N95 for me, but it does on the E65), and it’s absolutely brilliant :). It has some really nice features which let me manage and access my phones contents remotely, such as calendar events, pictures, messages and contacts. But it also takes ‘moblogging’ to a new level. The server actually resides on my phone; htdocs, secure access, user management and statistics and all, meaning i can not only blog from my phone, but blog ‘on’ my phone. Sidenote to this is that , when I’m not running the application on my handset, my server is not live, and therefore unavailable. You can check out my mobile server based blog and some other content here.

Kyte is a new picture/slideshow/video application for mobile and web, and I just recently started playing with it..

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(this is a little post about flash)

I’ve been to LFPUG last night and for the first time in a long time, have come back truly inspired. Listening to Aral’s talk about how he wanted to get back into doing fun stuff - hooking up API’s, scraping twitter, creating things without worrying whether you’re doing it using best practices -, really got to me. It was and is still in essence the sole reason for me to be looking into flash. If you want to code, you can off course, but flash is not about best practices, well… not always.. experimenting, creating, building, doing nice, beautiful and fun things. (more…)

It’s always nice to get some kind of confirmation that you’re heading for something good. That my senses aren’t way off and that what I’m doing might even be useful in a way. Let me explain.

As you may or may not know, I am doing a graduation project. When I started I had no idea I would be heading for a social interaction tool to be used in education, but hey, there you go. And to find an article in the “newspaper” - metro, wish I could find an online source of this article - , while evaluating the result from my little three-week qualitative reseach with fourteen twelve year olds in a school for media and arts, about the European Commission starting an investigation whether mobile phones are good for our children.

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We all know presence settings. I’m available, busy, away, out to lunch, offline etc.. This is all good and well, but obviously, this kind of presence is rather useless in a mobile context. I’m hardly ever away from my mobile, I’m offline in tunnels, and availability .. well, to be honest, how often do you turn down a phonecall without a comforting txt to explain.

And it’s exactly this type of text message which I won’t need to send you if you would know what I’m doing and where I am. I’ve always believed there’s room and need for an extended contact list, which informs you about your contacts, friend, colleagues, clients, family. So you don’t disturb them when they’re asleep, so you can check when they get into the office, so you can see if they’re in the bar around the corner. I don’t know if the developers of Jaiku considered these ideas, but even if they haven’t, I believe they’re heading the right way.

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via : FlexiSpy, a so-called activity logger. What it does is keep track of someone’s calls, texts gprs activity, the lot. You are supposed to install this piece of software on someone elses series 60 phone. I’m not really questioning wether or not it’s bad or illegal to spy on someone, it obviously should never have surfaced in this form. I share the view of ‘the royal road’, in that it actually provides services for phones you could really use, to control your own usage and look back what you’ve sent using your phone when you want to. Let’s see if someone picks up on this, and creates a non-hidden version of this piece of software.

Not sure if everybody is familiar with the term ‘Walled Garden’, but this is what the internet on pretty much every mobile is like. From the early limited internet services like I-mode (correct me if I’m wrong) to today’s mobile internet services provided by Vodafone.

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