Nokia Open Lab: Site Recommendations
22 09 2008
I had great time in Helsinki speaking with the impassioned geeks Nokia had flown in from around the world. Together we walked to Helsinki’s museum of modern art and spent a few hours in conversation. Everyone in our group was equipped with at least two cameras and two global phones. The mix of researchers, bloggers, and category experts made for lively discussions.
I asked a few people to share a website or two they recommend. Here are a few they shared:
* Tag Maps: “We crunched through 50 million photographs on Flickr to see what people deem important in the world.” Rahul Nahir, Yahoo researcher.
* GeoSpot: What’s open right now (in San Fran and LA)
* Carsonified: – a creative agency, “I love the way the site looks,” Ilicco Elia, head of mobile, Reuters Europe.
* Mizpee – where to find a toilet fast, recommended by Steve Dembo, Discovery Channel.
* Get Satisfaction: consumers and corporations can meet and get satisfaction online, recommended by Mikko Eerola
* Karaokeparty: The Singstar killer, recommended by Janne Saarikko
* Zero Punctuation: Video game reviews by a brit with a sharp wit, sardonic tone and a dirty mouth. Just. Brilliant. Recommended by James Whatley
* Phreadz: still in closed Beta, it’s a threaded multimedia conversation platform that offers the whole area of threaded archivable, taggable conversations, including video, text, photography, slideshare, audio etc. It rules. Recommended by Steve Lawson
* Silobreaker: helping with pattern recognition related to current events, recommended by Teemu Arina
* Christian Lindholm: how life blogging should be done, recommended by Rob Evans
* Mike Maddaloni – SitePoint @ sitepoint.com: a great tech, design and business resource for creative and like minded people from around the world, like what I hope we build for OpenLab!
Thanks for the list Zach… and glad to add to it!
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Thanks for posting this. (And thanks to Steve for recommending Phreadz!
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I really wish I could have gone to this. How did people get to hear about this opportunity? (To attend and/or present?) I would really love to know when anything like this happens in the future.
I’ve always had a lot of respect for what Nokia do in the social / media space. But never very happy with them being deep ‘in bed’ with SixApart (who charge people to use TypePad, required by LifeBlog) - also present in a lot of the backend of twango/Ovi.
Thanks again!
Kosso / Phreadz.com