yes. a new world record here. I know...


I totally agree...

Although I will admit I'd love to see Ovi offer an SMS gateway service eventually...

I added the screen-shots as promised, actually you can see some of them at the beta labs archived projects: http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/nokia-friend-view



This application is now closed,as well its registration on the website: http://friendview.nokia.com
The Friend View project will be discontinued (shut down) on September 30, 2009.

I am not a big user of Facebook myself, a user that looks daily many times on his page for updates from friends... I am just a moderate user, it can pass a day or two without checking my facebook page. I am also using Hi5, but even more rarely, and I don't have a twitter account yet, so personally I cannot tell much if the Nokia Friend View added value to the Social Networking world in comparison with other Soc-Net applications (I did not use it).

If you are a facebook avid user, what do you think looking at the screen-shots above about the former "Friend-View" app, was it good, what else would have been needed?

I don't use Facebook, and won't use Facebook... but something like Friendview, very likely.

I'm not an avid Facebook user, though I do have an account that aggregates some of my activity elsewhere on the web (Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, etc.). I also have a Nokia Friend View account.

Friend View had potential. If you had lots of friends, and many of them used S60 phones, and they didn't live too far away, and they didn't mind broadcasting their whereabouts to you, and they installed the Friend View client and kept it running, there was a definite chance of finding yourself just around the corner from someone you hadn't seen for a while and getting together for coffee and a nice chat you would have otherwise missed.

Lacking nearly all of the above, and not being a coffee drinker anyway, Friend View didn't work out so well for me:


I never did bump into lcuk or qgil, my only friends.

Regardless, I had hoped for a Maemo client, as native (rather than web-based) Friend View would have been fantastic during Maemo Summits. "Hey, qole and Jaffa are just across the street in that seafood-pizza restaurant. Let's join them!"

I know Nokia is a huge company, but from time to time I feel they lack aggressiveness in the market. This is specially evident in their social networking solutions. I feel like they are just experimenting with various solutions and providers and not really going anywhere. They should out right buy an already established company like Facebook or MySpace and concentrate on that, or go full blown on Ovi Services and integrate everything soo seamlessly that people won't even know whats behind the interface. I feel in this current highly evolving market slow experiments gain nothing...

Nokia is very culturally conservative. The cool stuff is a fluke.