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Ovi Store: An app a day keeps the doctor away
By Mike on 17 September 2009
GLOBAL – The Forum Nokia guys and gals have launched a great new blog called MyDailyApp.com with the singularity of purpose of of doing exactly what it says on the tin – every day the team shines the spotlight on a smart bite-size chunk of mobile software that you can download from the Ovi Store. Read on to find out more, including some of the first apps to be picked from the tree.
Launched late last week, the team responsible for MyDailyApp.com have already highlighted a bunch of great little apps and widgets, including TrueCaller (a smart caller ID app) created by True Software Scandinavia AB, Shopping List (you get the idea) made by a small Finish outfit called Digia, the suite of new Ramadan apps, VoiceQ (for voice recording and sharing) by Tel Aviv-based SBSH Mobile Software, and FLORIN Finance Tracker (designed to help you manage your personal finances on the move) created by fellow UK dwellers BlueskyNorth.
As for the team cherry-picking the apps each day, that’s the dedicated folk at Forum Nokia. Their motivation? Simple. As they highlight on their About Us page:
MyDailyApp.com – “When we first talked about starting this website, we knew we wanted to do two things: write about all the cool apps that we were seeing in Ovi Store (the list is growing each week!); and write about the developers and companies that have created these apps for all of us to use.”
There’s a cool Twitter channel @mydailyapp supplementing the site, along with RSS, meaning it’s easy to keep in-the-know on the latest software nuggets that are being shoved into the limelight. If you’ve got any suggestions or feedback (good and bad, of course), they want to hear it in their comments section and by getting stuck in on their Twitter channel.
I guess I’ll wrap up by drawing your attention to a few things the team are again keen to highlight on their about us page:
MyDailyApp.com
- These reviews are NOT paid endorsements of any kind. Neither the team that runs Ovi Store, nor the developers whose apps are reviewed have any influence over the apps that are selected, or what is written about those apps.
- We promise to bring you new stuff every business day (Monday through Friday) that we expect you will enjoy, too. OK, if you don’t like it, tell us what you don’t like, and we’ll try harder.
- We know there’s a ton of content out there for your Nokia mobile devices. Equally, we know that most people are really busy, and can’t spend all day looking at apps. We’re going to do the homework for you. We didn’t think you would mind.
- These reviews are likely to be positive in tone. We’re going to test a lot of applications and content in Ovi Store, and then select the best ones to write about. We won’t waste your time with bogus reviews about apps we wouldn’t use ourselves. Honest.
- We won’t be right all the time. And, we’re going to make mistakes. However, when that does happen, we’ll acknowledge it, and we’ll fix it.
OK, this list could go on and on, but we think you get the idea.
We’ll be following it keenly as it promises to make the hunt for great apps easier. What do you think? As always please share your comments below.
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September 17th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Mike – and Nokia Conversations Team – thank you for the kind words about MyDailyApp! We’re hard at work harvesting loads of greats app from the Ovi Store tree! We’re just getting warmed up – and have plenty of cool stuff in the works for the site, so do stay tuned.
Next week we will focus on a variety of Social Networking apps, so it should be fun for all.
And, if anyone has ideas or suggestions for the site, we’re listening! Thanks again – Jason (contentqb) Black
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September 18th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Mike – and Conversations team – one quick update – if you can note it in this post that would be great. We have been asked to update/revise our Twitter ID, and are now Tweeting via @ovidailyapp – it’s the same great content, from the same people at Forum Nokia, just a slightly different name. We appreciate all of your help! Thanks – Jason (contentqb) Black
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September 20th, 2009 at 7:29 am
This is something I’ve been expecting for soooo long. Independent reviews of useful Ovi applications.
Ovi Store has much interesting stuff which is sometimes buried under tons of less exciting stuff. It’s good to have a blog to read and comment on the best software available.
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September 20th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Dear Sirs,Madams
When I take my Nokia charger with me the wire always gets tangled in all kinds of stuff in my bag. Would it not be an idea to make the housing of the charger a litle bit bigger and put a spring inside? So you can pull the wire out of the housing when needed to charge your cell phone and afterwards it rolls itself back up into the housing (similar to the measuretape one uses to measure things)
Kind reagrds
Otto van der Parre
Hilversum
The Netherlands
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September 26th, 2009 at 3:31 am
YAY, just like to thank those who worked on the OVI store and made it wo it works better.
at least some effort has been put into insuring the things BOUGHT can be downloaded again without total PITA to get it again.
(now if the stuff wouldnt get lost to begin with . . .)
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