Periodically reassessing where we are going is good

BOSTON, USA – Change is the only constant. But there comes times where the disconnect between yesterday and tomorrow is great, and we need to stop and try to understand what is going on.

One thing we don’t do here is speculate on hard core market trends, like customer numbers, market share, or revenue. We also don’t comment (much) on competitors or try to openly discuss what we think is going down and how we’re going to respond to it.

But what we can do is read what others have written and at least point it to you. That’s the idea behind these round-ups and, even more so, the articles we bookmark on our Delicious stream (and that show up in our Twitter feed).

In today’s collection of links, I have two articles that I found interesting but which I am not so comfortable discussing (for one, I am biased). That shouldn’t stop you guys from having a discussion about these articles, though. So, let’s scroll down to see what these articles were about.

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Banging our own drum

ESPOO, Finland – It’s not often you hear (or see) us banging our own drum but who would we be if we didn’t cheer lead our own chieftains – after all, there are only 25 people in Business Week’s “most influential people on the web” and this year one of those is our very own Anssi Vanjoki. Let’s hear it for the boy…

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Changes in management, business and competitive field

ESPOO, Finland – Some news yesterday was added to my long list of ‘interesting’ news from the past week. While I won’t categorize all the stories I am about to discuss as ‘bad’, it certainly is the kind of news that makes you pause and look up from your navel.

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Yet another browser. Yet another app store. Yet another mousetrap?

LONDON, UK – It seems that even when we have enough versions of some service or product, someone comes along to do the same or try to improve it. The latest two I found come from some big players, Google and Microsoft.

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Sometimes there just is no connection between calculators, politics, search tools, and prizes

ESPOO, Finland – Here at Nokia Conversations, Mike and James (evil guys) have pushed me to talk about the things we link to via delicious. Some folks I know call it ‘blog all open tabs’, meaning as you find interesting things online and open them in new tabs in the browser, at some point, just write about all the stuff.

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Symbian and Google Android – the official word

INTERNATIONAL – Since news broke of the new Symbian Foundation flames of speculation have been burning across the web with talk of Symbian combining with Android. Of course, any significant announcement such as this is a tasty subject for the rumour mill to sink its teeth into, however Nokia has released an official statement that slices through the speculation and delivers clarity on the situation. Read on…

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Location based services still do not measure up? Or do they?

SOMEWHERE – The term, Location Based Services, or LBS, has been kicking around for a long time. Like many terms full of baggage (WAP comes to mind), there are lots to like and lots to dislike. A comment by Alfie Dennen a week or two back has been bouncing in my head. So, today I did a perusal of some posts on LBS to see what the sentiment is.

Overall, LBS is still viewed as a failed promise. But I get a feeling that, unlike many years ago, we seem to have a better grasp of what we want (or not) out of it. Also it has faded into the background as an enabler, hence we don’t see it for what it is (’LBS is dead. Long live LBS’?). Read my take in the post below.

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Symbian Foundation: answering the questions

LONDON, England – We’re still blown away by Tuesday’s events, so much
so that we almost forgot about the notes we took during the Q&A at the launch.
Fear not dear brethren, as they’ve been resurrected and the choice cuts
revealed here for your delight.

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Google Android is not for us. Yet.

USA – According to Niklas Savander, executive vice president of services and software at Nokia, Google Android isn’t yet ready for Nokia to make an assessment on. “A platform has three to four million lines of code” Savander told SFGate.com. “When Android has that many lines, we’ll make an assessment. Until then it’s just an announcement”.

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There’s more to find than the web

ESPOO, Finland - When it comes to search, the likes of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are friends, not foe, of Nokia. The services complement what Nokia offers, rather than competes against it. Not because Nokia doesn’t think finding stuff is important, but because what and how you find using your Nokia is totally different. Moconews.net recently caught up with Nokia’s head of search Jussi-Pekka Partanen who talked openly about this and other search related issues. It’s well worth a read, and we’ve picked out a few of the choice bits here.