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This is an macro photo I have taken with my N95 and Im really satisfied with, no Im really Proud!

Macro Photo

...but I'm preparing an longer article about community's on the net and what they might be good for. But as I have recently started to investigate some of them it seems like I need to get settled a bit first at the sites. so I can give them the justice they deserve.

Meanwhile you just have to settle for a photo of the beautiful Swedish Spring.

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Got this from one of my new friends over at Jaiku. Way funny I think.

You can find more at The Joy of Tech comic... laughter is the best tech support.

I’m going to talk a little about Social Awareness now. As you know there’s a lot of people that blog’s and also a lot of them that reads blog’s. There’s an undeniable fact that people now rather read blog’s than they read newspapers. Maybe it’s out of curiosity or simple that we got sick and tired from the news flow consisting of evil, war and violence.
My own theory is that what’s drives us to read what other people blog about is also a curiosity to have an insight in others life’s. Whatever makes us read blog’s I’m convinced that the blog’s are here to stay…. At least for a while.

Now back to my issue for the day: Micro blogging!

There’s a lot of ways to micro blog and will only cover a few, i.e. the ones I use. The ways for you to micro blog is: text, photo, video and sound.

The systems:

Jaiku -            Text based system
Twitter -          Text based system
Pownce -         Text based system, also other formats
Tumblr -          Text based system, also other formats

Flixwagon –    Video blogging
QIK –              Video blogging

LastFM – Share what you are listening to and discuss it with others.

I will now comment a bit about this different systems.

Jaiku: The first time I got in contact with micro blogging was when I started to look around on the Net to find articles about Nokia N95 which was the next mobile phone that I wanted to get. And what I could see was that a lot of the bloggers I was reading spoke warmelyy about Jaiku. So when I finally got my N95 I just had to set up an account with Jaiku, but got really disappointed whn I found out that you needed an invite to use it. Well I have never been the kind of guy that gives up, so I started to search for way to get an invite.
And on http://jaikuinvites.com/ I found that possibility to get invited to Jaiku. My sponsor is and Danish guy (Per, will always be grateful to you! Thanks once again!)
Finally after signing up, I found out that there was ways to get feeds from your other sources into Jaiku (like your blog(s), Flickr, LastFm etc.). But for me was the most important thing that there is a client for N95 (S60 phones). Today I use Jaiku as my main source/tool to micro blog. (Ps. I’ve got invites if somebody is seriously interested, but you really need to be serious!) You can update Jaiku via Webb, Mobile, IM.

Twitter: Twitter was the first service I connected to mainly because it’s an open system, you don’t need an invite to sign up with them. And there’s a simple client for it too.
Twitter is a simpler system than Jaiku, but I use twitter almost as frequent as Jaiku. You can update Twitter via Webb, Sms and mobile.

Pownce: I have only been signing up with Pownce and checked around a bit, and I don’t feel it will be one of my main sources to use. But maybe you are?
You can use it form you mobile, via browser on this address: http://mobile.pownce.com/
You can update Pownce via Webb, Pc-client and Sms.

Tumblr: The same goes for Tumblr so it’s to early to make any verdict. You can update Tumblr via Webb, Email or by singing in to you own Tumblr site, the address looks like this: http://yourname.tumblr.com/mobile

Flixwagon:  Video blogging on a high level! I totally love Flixwagon, and I haven’t been using it that much….yet, but I will use it more in the future. Hat I can see is that Flixwagon has better quality than QIK which is their closest competitor. A really cool thing is that you can chat in real-time with your viewers. It’s simply Ubercool! Oh yes, there’s (of course) a client for your S60 phone!

QIK:  Seriously it’s also good, but can not match Flixwagon for me at least! Client for S60 phones.

LastFm: I have already talked about LastFm and that article is Here!

One of my conclusions I have to form all this is: How public does one want to be? And what use can YOU get from micro blogging? For me the answer is simple and clear because I want to find as mobile solutions for both my professional and social networking and from my point of view Jaiku, Twitter and all the other tools are just means to be used in that respect and also great fun when you start to get a bigger network.

Yesterday I started to use LastFM for the first time, before yesterday I didn't really see the use for this community, but now I'm more or less fired up! I have read a great deal about LastFM in the other Nokia Blog's and been thinking that I maybe should give it a try, and also the fact that it seems that a lot of my new friends use it.

How do you use it then, well first of all you need to to go to LastFM and create your own profile there. After that you download the LastFM software so you can start scrobbling. I use on my N95 Mobbler that does the trick for music you listen to on your device.
After you have all this installed it´s just to scrobble away. And you can get your recently listen music up as listings at the common community's like, Facebook, Myspace, Jaiku and others.

Lets scrobble and share what we're listening too!

Today I made my first call with the Beta of Skype for S60, and I was a bit curious how it would work. And it worked excellent, I made a call to friends that are in Kenya (to their mobile)  and the sound was as if I was calling them on my landlinephone and this was over a 3G connection. I couldn't get it to work with my wireless broadband for some reason, I will look into this problem later. It was almost a fifth of the cost with my landline, so it's for sure a cheaper solution to use.

I have used both Fring and Truphone to make call from my phone/internet and they have worked so-so but I'm a little impressed that Skype Mobile worked this good. I will certainly use it when I make calls to my international contacts.

You can download Skype Beta from  http://skype.com/m on your mobile!

I'm sure that all the other Nokia bloggers will give you a more in-depth review so I'm only giving you my simple point as an User this time!

Here are some of my photos from the journey to Gotland (It's an island outside the coast of Sweden that belongs to Sweden) for you to enjoy!

I conducted a test of the Proporta Solar Charger during my “Micro vacation” On Gotland during this past weekend. This is my test protocol:

My journey starts on the morning of the Thursday 17^th, The Proporta is charged in a window for 2 days.

Arrives in Gotland at 14:30 at home at my friend’s place my daughter needs to charge her Nokia 6280 (it started beeping), so she charges it fully. And after her I charge my N95 (had only 2 bars) fully. No problems the Proporta stands the test.

I put the Proporta in an window and it stays there until next morning.

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Friday 18^th

Cloudy day but I hope the Proporta still can charge-

Working on my 3d report as an S60 ambassador, answers some mail and update my Swedish blog with some photos, calls some calls about 15 minutes.

Out on town, films an sekuens that goes to Flixwagon. Sends and receives about 8 sms

Back at another friends place I take a nap and when I wake up my N95 is down to one bar. Have to charge it with my batterycharger when the Proporta is in the other end of town.

Evening, back at my friends place (took some photos and looked at some flix at YouTube) I start charging with the Proporta but dies on me after about 15 minutes. Put my N95 on charging during night.

 
Saturday 19^th

Proporta in window and it’s a really sunny day so it will be perfect. I go for charging my N95 before I leave at 11.

The usual morningritual, sms, mail, checking blogs etc. my N95 down to 2 bars again. Charges with Proporta and it works fine.

Away all day, taking photos, short video and one to Flixwagon. Sms….well you know the drill!

Back home at 21:00 starting a new charge with my Proporta, but it turns down on me after about 10 minutes. My friend tells me one of his sons used it to charge his Nokia in the evening. So there’s the explanation.

Monday 20^th

Returning home to Stockholm

Conclusion:

To be sure your Proporta will be able to charge fully it needs at least a partly sunny day, but then it works like a charm. I will not say this a totally scientifically conducted test, but for me it was good to see that it’s possible to use the Proporta Solar charger as a compliment when your out camping, but you can’t rely only on it. You need to have other backup possibilities such as an emergency battery charger.

You can get your own Proporta Solar Charger at http://www.proporta.com

This time when Im away i will use my Proporta Solar Charger only. I have backup charges if needed but I need to find out if I can trust that equipment before I go hiking this summer. I have charged my N95 once before with the proporta and had the Proporta charged in the sun so Im confident it will work out just fine.
I also have my BT SU-8W keyboard and Im using it to write this in active notes (which is an great free software for S60 devices by the way.) before i post it to http://n95expert.vox.com/

Back to my little test now, I will make notes on when I load my N95 and with what charger and after this days I will make an conclusion to see how effective the Proporta Solar Charger is.

Me on packed and ready to go!

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