Local Interaction demo on Youtube
I gave a demo of our system at a press event for Nokia a few weeks ago. Our PR people were busy filming and have put several short demo movies on Youtube. Including my demo and several other cool...
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Presenting Local Interaction Demo
Presenting Local Interaction Demo, originally uploaded by jillesvangurp. Me presenting our Local Interaction demo at the Way We Live Next press event that Nokia organized two weeks ago. Also see the...
View ArticleNRC Reorganization
My employer, Nokia, announced this week that it is reorganizing Nokia Research Center. The why and how of this operation is explained in the press release. I learned this on Tuesday along with all my...
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server side osgi, a myth?
Two years ago, I started using OSGI, the popular Java dependency injecting component standard, for an internal project. Fast forward to now and I have a nice set of bundles that depend on, amongst...
View ArticleMoving to Berlin
A bit more than a month ago, I posted a little something on the reorganization in Nokia Research Center where I work and announced my availability on the job market. This was a bit of a shock of course...
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Time for a little update
Hmm, it’s been more than two months since I last posted. Time for an update. A lot has happened since January. So, I moved out of Finland as planned. I stayed in a temporary apartment for a month....
View Articlekamppi.nokia.mobi
I’m rather late with this since it has been more than a month this was news. Busy, moving to Berlin, and other lame excuses. But better late than never. You might recall a little youtube video I posted...
View ArticleLocalization rant
I’ve been living outside the Netherlands for a while and have noticed that quite many web sites are handling localization and internationalization pretty damn poorly. In general I hate the poor...
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OpenID, the identity landscape, and social networks
I’m still getting used to no longer being in nokia research center. One of my disappointments of being in NRC and being a vocal proponent of openid, social networks, etc. was that despite lots of...
View ArticleMaps on Ovi
Both OVI Maps, our maps and navigation client for S60 and the Maps on Ovi companion website (or MoO!!! as we refer to it internally), received a few upgrades in the past week. Maps 3.0 is a solid...
View ArticlePublications backlog
I’m now a bit more than half a year into my second ‘retirement’ from publishing (and I’m not even 35). The first one was when I was working as a developer at GX Creative Online Development 2004-2005...
View ArticleN900 & Slashdot
I just unleashed the stuff below in a slashdot thread. 10 years ago I was a regular there (posting multiple times per day) and today I realized that I hadn’t actually even bothered to sign into...
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N8
I’ve had the nokia N8 for a few weeks now and since I like it, I thought I’d do a little review. Does it have rough edges? Sadly, yes there are some. But no major show stoppers. It’s stable. The camera...
View ArticleMobile Linux
A lot has been written about mobile and embedded device platforms lately (aka. ‘phone’ platforms). Usually articles are about the usual incumbent platforms: Android, IOS, and Windows Phone and the...
View ArticleWindows Phone and Nokia
I just posted a comment to this article about Nokia shareholders getting impatient with the current CEO, Stephen Elop. It’s a quite long comment and people might overlook it in what seems to be a long...
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