Interesting this Nokia/YouTube hook up.
Nokia press release…
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1104222
Nokia have had a love/hate relationship with the ‘carriers’ for a while now…
http://nokian95.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00ccff84be77985d00cd970d0e234cd5.html
This deal parallels the ones YouTube have made with carriers such as Verizon Wireless.
http://www.youtube.com/press_room_entry?entry=MfvRjkWLxgk
The main difference seems to be that Nokia won’t be pruning the selection of videos that are downloaded.
Nokia and other mobile phone companies are neatly bypassing the ‘carriers’ by providing a wide variety of potential wireless access nodes (2G, 3G, Wifi, Bluetooth) onto the Internet.
The ‘carriers’ should love Nokia for making it so easy for the user to chew though bandwidth.
Unfortunately, the ‘carriers’ don’t see themselves as a utility such as water or electricity.
They see themselves as media companies.
Users want control over the media they consume.
Users are not interested in the ‘carriers’ censoring media.
Users want tools (mobile ones in this case) to find and access the media and human contacts they desire.
What Users don’t want is an ‘old school media channel’ dolling out teaspoons of sanitised bits and bytes, and controlling who the User can communicate with.
Life could be so easy for the ‘carriers.’ Give the Users a cheap, wide, fast flowing river of bits, and then sit back and let the cash roll in.
One day, we may find mobile phones talking to each other in a huge fluid mobile web (each phone would be its own ‘base station’ and function much as a P2P network would) dipping into household WiMax stations when access is available.
This would completely bypass the ‘carriers’ and would make the function of mobile phones much like the Net itself.
so would you use the video capture functionality the N93 has to offer to upload to youtube or vox directly? the gap seems to be that the uptake of all that wonderful technology is extremely limited. nokia still has proprietary standards, although they're changing tack now. I'm asking this, because I'm part of a thinktank type outfit that has been asked to brainstorm web 2.0 (hmmm) for nokia. i think the keyword here is "human contacts": the content functions as potlatch, not as assets (tagged and all) per se. (did I tell that i'm also an anthropologist) :)
ReplyDelete[this is good] The N95 can work without a simcard. Guess why ;-) Dedicated communications methods (phone lines, gsm etc.) are slowly shifting towards a free flowing internetconnection. Allowing people to choose their type of communication. VoIP and more is here and knocking solidly on the doors of companies like Orange and Vodaphone (the guys that disabled SIP on the N95). And yes WiMax is coming too.
ReplyDeleteTo succeed beyond that of a cheaper but less reliable alternative communicationschannel any transportmethod for internet should be able to assign transport priorities to the different stateful and stateless dataconnections. I.e. calling 911 or 112 should be a priority. Either bij VoIP or GSM.
Open source and a open internet has shown that it can and will quickly form new and stable constructs that then should be supported and strenghted by regulations and infrastructure instead of obstructed. In a way I enjoy the way the carriers obstruct the new 'age'. The growth of the internet in France was held back compared to other countries because of the goverment sponsored minitel. In a way the carriers are encouraging the switch to new communication constructs (protocols and artifacts) and allowing the best to rise from a viable potluc of possibilities. Consider me a BSD-license advocate.
I just got a data plan on my mobile. I pretty much do not need my computer anymore since I do so much with my mobile phone. The neatest thing is that I can even watch naughty movies:) It is pretty neat, it's called Mobile TV. All I do is point my phone to sexoncell.com and they have adult mobile movies in different formats like 3gp movies, symbian, pda or whatever. If you have any other cool sites, please let me know! This one, though, even has a free daily mobile movie.
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