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2008-11-22
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#12
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Originally Posted by benny1967
It's just a beta and S60 is a very broadly licensed platform. I don't think it should be criticized because it isn't free and completely open.
Did any of you try Nokia Friend View?
It's a hot mixture of micro-blogging and location based service for S60 phones.... And something that should have been done before, by someone else, as an open project using open standards.
It's what I always wanted to have, but I know I will not use it because it only works with S60 phones and the few people I know who would be interested in such a toy do not have S60 phones.
If there was the same thing as free software, built on open standards, they would use it via laptop or other phones and it would be much easier to build a community around it.
Pity.
Nokia spoiled it again with their walled garden attitude. (Same with Nokia Chat... I really don't understand their strategy.)
And as to "walled garden" comment, Nokia is much more open than others in mobile community (at least in the US).
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2008-11-22
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#13
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Good to know that beny1967 is 1450,17 kilometers away. 
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2008-11-22
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#14
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would be cool to allow setting up twipwires for people in local vacinity
it wouldnt be good for real stalkers mind you, but if you know a friend is flying into the country, you could get a ping when they land.
it wouldnt be good for real stalkers mind you, but if you know a friend is flying into the country, you could get a ping when they land.
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2008-11-22
, 21:48
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#15
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I'm on too, feel free to add me as friend 
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In the web interface the map doesn't load (only appear the zoom tool and a blue background), anyone having this problem too ?
I'm using FF 3 in Ubuntu.
.In the web interface the map doesn't load (only appear the zoom tool and a blue background), anyone having this problem too ?
I'm using FF 3 in Ubuntu.
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2008-11-22
, 21:50
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#16
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Originally Posted by lcuk
I think that is exactly where this is going. A guy at NRC came up with this about 5(?) years ago.
would be cool to allow setting up twipwires for people in local vacinity
it wouldnt be good for real stalkers mind you, but if you know a friend is flying into the country, you could get a ping when they land.
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2008-11-22
, 22:22
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#17
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Originally Posted by qgil
And I almost forgot that Nokia bought http://plazes.com too some months ago.
By the way, Nokia acquired Trolltech and is pushing the cross-platform Qt (and other cross-platform technologies) precisely to address this problem.
The building blocks are more or less there, and they don't look that XX century walled garden etc etc.
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2008-11-22
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#18
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Originally Posted by qgil
I found it. Invented at Nokia by Federico Fraccaroli in XX century.
And I almost forgot that Nokia bought http://plazes.com too some months ago.
The building blocks are more or less there, and they don't look that XX century walled garden etc etc.
That hasn't a DaVinci sort of sound to it, doesn't it?
Patented in 2007, not Davinci like...
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...&RS=PN/7280822
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2008-11-22
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#19
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Originally Posted by qgil
Plazes.com have already a good infrastructure, more options and better maps
And I almost forgot that Nokia bought http://plazes.com too some months ago.
The building blocks are more or less there, and they don't look that XX century walled garden etc etc.
. I think Nokia should integrate this service into friendView for a better user experience, instead of writing a new service.
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2008-11-23
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#20
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Originally Posted by qgil
Hehe ...
Good to know that beny1967 is 1450,17 kilometers away.
See, this is what research projects are for. There's this video at YouTube in which Brenda Castro talks about Friend View and says something along the lines of "It's a project to find out how people react to the comforting feeling that there's always somebody near you" (don't recall the exact words).
You could communicate inside Nokia that there's a second goal that they might investigate further: The comforting feeling that certain people are still far, far away. *LOL*
(BTW: It still looks close with the right zoom factor on my small screen... I like seeing you so close to me
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Ovi Service Terms
$agreementVO.agreementDate
https://account.nokia.com/acct/publi...sAndConditions
I've certainly read them heh
as lcuk by the way, but I can't do anything because
"Sorry, you must verify your e-mail or phone number before searching"
I haven't been sent anything.
*edit: ive clicked a verify button deep within the settings.
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Last edited by lcuk; 2008-11-22 at 20:08.