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Today, at IAMAI + Nokia meetup, I met many of my facebook/linkedin “buddies” for first time in real world! The best thing was that I already had seen their status messages/photo posts and lot of other information beforehand.
At one point of time, offline messaging (read: Email) was the only type of messaging. Now you have instant message, Public Wall, Scrap Book (Orkut), broadcast messaging (Status message of FB / Linkedin) and live updates (Twitter /Jaiku). Top it up with options availble to device specific options : you have SMS, USSD and even PIN messaging (Sending a message to another blackberry device without going to mail server! )
Top it all up with multimedia messaging and variations of Push and Pull. Whoa! there are so many options. Read more »
What can you do with your mobile?
We are in business of making most out the mobile phone. There are many things your mobile can do today. With fantastic hard disk sizes and processing capabilities, a phone is less just-a-phone and more of a general purpose all-in-one device. Adding various device-side or network-side applications, you can enhance your everyday experience to new levels.
Today most of the Value Added Services business is based on entertainment value to user. It definitely is heading towards more utilities and services for everyday use.
I love exploring how others see and use their mobile devices. In this hunt, I spotted these two videos worth a dekko.
First one is from Google as part of mobile tricks and second is presentation by Nokia ’s Anssi Vanjoki (whom I am meeting this week 
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Google Mobile tricks:
In the second video, Anssi describes some key finds of user behaviors and how Nokia is leveraging them.
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