Nokia introduces a new digital multimedia diary software called "Lifeblog" (1; 2) for simultaneous installation on the PC and the mobile phone this summer. Lifeblog sorts all kind of images, videos and text of Nokia 60 series camera phones and transfers them via one-button synchronization and USB to the PC.
Initially Lifeblog will be shipped with the Nokia 7610 (the company's first megapixel camera phone), but it can also be downloaded at the lifeblog website. You have to buy a license for the PC-version of Lifeblog (€30 for the full version, which will be activated online), but not for the mobile phone-version. And if you are a lucky Macie, you don´t have to pay at all - it is PC-only, although Lifeblog definetely has an iPhoto-touch.
The Guardian met Christian Lindholm, Director, Multimedia Applications, Nokia Ventures Organization: "The third bit of news from our chat, apart from v1.0 of Lifeblog, and the phones, is that Nokia has been experimenting with Typepad , the weblogging app. There's nothing going to happen between Nokia and Six Apart just yet, it seems, but Lindholm has a Typepad weblog and is experimenting away. He sees publishing your memories as being very important, and I suspect Typepad is the best bet to do that - unless Nokia decides to do its own thing. Blogging, finally, for the mainstream?"
There had been rumors around that Lifeblog publishes your daily diary to the web making it available for anyone. I had to learn that this at the present development stage is not true. But "that, hints Lindholm, may change in future versions of the software...weblogging tools are not mature enough, he says, we're talking about taking blogging to a mass market, which is not going to put up with the complexity that exists today." This is a bit confusing because another source - the Handelsblatt - reported this week that Lifeblog will be shipped with this feature: "Every user can document his life and publish it to the web - available for every Internet user."
For the geeks: read the Lindholm weblog entry "Convergence lessons from Cebit 2004" and the first paragraph "It is getting possible to build the life recorder".
