Barcelona Was Owned By Nokia

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1. David Zemens said on February 15th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

   Enought about Nokia.

   How was Barcelona? Did you spend much time on Las Ramblas? The bars? The women? I thought the women in Spain were as gorgeous as any I have ever seen. What did you think, Loren?

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2. Loren Feldman said on February 15th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

   I have the incomparable Michelle and didn’t even bother to look. As far as the city didn’t see it all work all the time there.

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3. David Zemens said on February 15th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

   Nothwithstanding Michelle, who I adore, you missed out on one of the great “women” cities in the world, IMHO.

   The city itself is delightful. The center city has a pedestrian area called Las Ramblas, which runs from the center of the city down to the waterfront — busy, active, walkable, and full of restaurants, bars, great people, pick pockets and other thieves.

   Barcelona is a great town…

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4. Tyler said on February 15th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

   Looks like they forgot to talk about the mobile people are actually using:

   “Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset — a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.”

   http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/14/google_iphone_usage_shocks_search_giant.html

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5. steve said on February 15th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

   while away you missed the alpha launch of this : http://live.yahoo.com

   what do you think of this seesmic killer ?

   it’s an experiment by yahoo that might launch pretty soon. very impressive imho.

   lorren, a review would be highly appreciated …

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6. golfgirl said on February 15th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

   In the context of your experience in Barcelona, what is your take on the US vs Europe/World in the areas of telecom, social medial, tech?

   Is anyone being left behind… is anyone out of the loop? Is there a disconnect? Does it matter?
   Would love to know your impressions.

   BTW, Steve: I found live.yahoo to be rather a mess. I know it’s just experimental and all that, but boy did it quickly attract a low common denomintor. Not to be elitist or anything but it was like the lowest days of the aol chat rooms. Seems to me to serve a very different purpose from Seesmic, Seesmic being a video version of twitter and YL being a video version of ChatRooms.

   Any that’s in my humble, low tech, golf blogger’s opinion.

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7. steve said on February 15th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

   golfgirl : are you serious ? you really think seesmic conversations are interesting ?
   on a pure tech level, yahoo live is much better in term of video quality than seesmic.

   and did you really investigate all yahoo/live options ? because it’s nothing like a qik session where there’s one broadcaster and a text chat room. the beauty of yahoo live is the ability to interconnect multiple LIVE broadcasters together to join conversations. doesn’t that ring your bell ? if yahoo invests in that, seesmic is going straight to deadpool, cause Le Meur can’t fight with yahoo and their 500 millions users, that simple. now about conversation subject, what do you think will hapen to seesmic anyway ? now its access is limited to a bunch of geeks trying it out. wait till it gets public and you’ll see conversations will be very alike in both platforms.
   after all, it’s just a matter of choosing the right topic, but it’ll always be limited to the level of education of their members…

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8. S.P. Gass said on February 16th, 2008 at 12:07 am

   I got a Motorola phone for free through Cingular and it works great. I don’t need an expensive Nokia: http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/02/14/affordable-cell-phones/

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9. racram said on February 16th, 2008 at 1:33 am

   I agree, at the moment it’s all about Nokia, I’ve been lucky enough to have a play with an early hardware release of N96 and I think it will be a killer device.

   That being said I think next year will be all about Google Android

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10. David Zemens said on February 16th, 2008 at 10:02 am

    @Loren: Did you have any contact with the Toshiba folks regarding this:

    “At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, Toshiba unveiled a mobile handset about the size of a contemporary chunky PDA smartphone, approximately the size and weight of the HTC Mogul. It’s about 160 grams, roughly twice the going weight for a cellphone, about an inch thick and powered by a lithium ion battery which was kept charged by a direct methanol fuel cell.”

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11. Bahamas Hosting said on February 19th, 2008 at 7:31 am

    Loren, is your heat off up there or something, or are you bundled up for the morning jog?

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