Tales from Hell-sinki

Guess who I had over to my apartment the other night? The pepcom class of 2008…We were left without the proper Fedex Labels so I had to overnight these lovelies in my place… 

Top Row: 6205 Dark Knight Edition, 6205, N810, Middle Row:  N82, Stuffed Peep, 5310 Xpress Music x2, N78, Front Row: N96, N81, E71 x2, E66 x2 

Later that night…

Yesterday my colleagues and I were welcomed “to the jingle”  at Pepcom in NYC.  Did I feel like I was in a bad episode of Ugly Betty? yes! Did I ever imagine that I would be talking about new devices within 10 feet of a  coati (tropical raccoon), chameleon and millipede? no!

Here’s some pictoral highlights from the evening click on this pic of my coworker keith to see more:

The below video documents the most awesome show of kippah-tude I have ever seen- It’s an LED, it’s a Kippah, it’s…er…both! Watch as Avi Greengart of Current Analysis  guides us through the ins and outs of his rad headgear:

For Now you get a press release, comments later

 Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share.  The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own will be approximately EUR 264 million. 

 Nokia has received irrevocable undertakings from Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. and Siemens International Holding BV to accept the offer, representing approximately 91% of the Symbian shares subject to the offer.  Nokia also expects Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to accept the offer.

More on the Nokia Press Site   

What does the North American social media person do on the weekends? Why hip hop class of course. Yeah, well, this hot footage of my weekend hip hop class at Alvin Ailey here in NYC was filmed with my trusty N95 8G (I pretended to be taking a water break and then took a snap shot). I’m sorry to say that after this footage our routine continued for another 42 something counts …oye!

Our teacher, Jonathan Lee seems to only have two words “again” and “from the top”– otherwise he rolls his fingers over eachother to signal us, which also means “again.” Oh yeah, He can also say, “5,6,7,8″ I’m happy to report that I did not pull my hamstring this time…yes, I’m making progress

We’re getting close to moving day here at the White Plains office and my colleague Keith is cleaning out his old Nokia accessory collection. I have chosen to model a particular favorite of mine–The Nokia Medallion I.

Below pic is me and “Dawn” the photostock model for this lovely contraption (thanks to Anna for helping me re-create this dramatic moment)

No comment on whether or not this er, “innovative” concept took off…

Device Description: choker style necklace is made with a steel body, plastic, matte rubber, and a steel chain. It’s got an infrared port which will let you transfer images to or from other infrared capable devices such as camera phones and personal digital assistants. The color screen displays 4096 colors and has a square 96 x 96 pixel resolution.  The production version will have a 80 mAh rechargeable lithium-ion that should last up to 15 hours.

I just wrote an amazing homage to my new favorite TV program- So you Think You Can Dance, but my browser seems to have timed out, so alas, I’ll have to wait until next time. For today, an interesting comparsion

Taken with my N95

Taken with a Cannon Powershot SD790

Yesterday my co-worker and I attended the very secretive and mysterious (NOT) Blog Council Un-Conference.  I will now NOT tell you what DIDN’T happen there:

click on the monkey to see more pics

It was held and the most awesomerifictastic (yes I feel the need to combine 3 words to make one adjective for this one) un-meeting un-facility in Chicago called the Catalyst Ranch- be jealous!

The meeting commenced with a ceremonial LIFTING of the screen in honor of NO POWERPOINTS! We all cheered and so began the un-beginning of our un-conference at the un-meeting facility.

Had there been nothing to talk about I might have felt fulfilled simply on account of a room filled with playdoh, vintage toys and pillows. Yes, it’s true, as much as I tried to focus on a very serious breakout group on the subject of measuring the impact of social media and ROI or as I will borrow from a fellow participant “Risk Of Ignoring”, my eyes kept wandering towards a stuffed poodle wearing safety goggles that was perched on the chair next to a very nice exec from Intel.  Or could it have been the Microsoft guy sitting on the lifeguard chair under a gigantic cocktail umbrella, or the dell guy on a rocker, oh, I can’t decide.

Some moments were like group therapy (which is sometimes necessary) while others were filled with productive conversation around how to manage a large companies’ strategy towards blogger relations and the blogosphere.

The director of digital comms at Coca Cola kept us fueled with coke products, let me school you for a minute: Diet Coke- Girlie, Coke Zero- boys afraid of seeming girlie- ok, maybe that’s an oversimplification. 

Another topic of conversation was the name “Blog Council” it seems some companies won’t allow membership based on the name alone- yes, it sounds communist to me too (KIDDING).  Other ideas include combinations of the following topics: Blog, Social Media, Word of Mouth, Interactive Media and Entities: Council, Institution, Association, League, Exchange. (tawk amongst yourselves) Some brought up the fact that perhaps companies who are too, how shall I say, er, “strict” to join because of a name issue should be, how do I say, er, “left out.”

Yes, the violent debate wages on….

My vote still lies with “Very Important and un- Secretive Un-Society of Un-Meetings where we don’t not talk about very Important Un-Topics”

The council day wrapped up with free beer from Molson, Canada (another participant). Yes, it was all good.

Welcome to the Rad-tastic of Home Sync now available on the Nokia N78. It allows you to create rules that choose what music you do or do not sync from your home media collection.

http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=experiences,tv_and_video,homemedia

ok, all 3 of you What does Molly think about the iphone 3G.

Well, it’s frickin cool. In my humble opinion, the most disruptive aspects of it are:

1) SDK’s- I use to get on my soapbox about how the iphone was the “gift that stops giving” – meaning once you’ve exhausted the pre-installed apps, you’re done exploring it’s uses. Now with an SDKs with native APIs—a developer community for the iphone, its value will inevitably be refreshed and useful to industry verticals.

2) Price point- can you say $199 for 8G?- yeah

3) Market- 22 countries on July 11

Yeah, I can appreciate a cool thing when I see it.  However, as I was discussing with some folks yesterday the whole 36% faster download thing is really just a matter of seconds.

But still here’s a funny vid from when the iphone was first announced comparing it to the Nokia N95- my current device of choice- ENJOY!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7444994.stm