Symbian ideas and snapshots

It's been a while since I visited the Symbian Foundation blogs, and was pleasantly surprised how much progress there is.  In addition to launching the Horizon program for 3rd party developers, there's also substantial support already available for device manufacturers. A dedicated Services site lists all sorts of help you can get, including a number of companies already offering professional services. Good. Nokia selling SOSCO to Accenture also brought one new company into the Symbian ecosystem.

The membership staff (Lauren and Roelof) are also hosting their own blog, and a Twitter account.


Symbian Ideas

One of the more fun and crazy sites is the Symbian ideas. It hosts already hundreds of ideas ranging from technical ideas, to organizational and ways of working related ideas. The site is built on Spigit, and features Reputations and Currency. By submitting and commenting ideas you can build yourself a reputation. Reputations are ranked, and you can get hooked on maintaining your reputation.
A good reputation will giver you social currency, and you will become an influential person in the Symbian ideas site. Today William Roberts is the most influential, his net worth is 43,932 units. Congratulations William.

There's also a Prediction Market where you can predict on things like "When will the last package move out of SFL", or "How many registrations will we have for the Smartphone show?". Cool.


Mobile Snapshots

Symbian is also proposing a Mobile Snapshot campaign for collecting our mobile moments. From their website:

Symbian proposes to provide a resource for collecting people's observations on the impact of mobiles - stories of how mobile devices are changing society around us. This is a crowdsourced database that will serve, over time, as a repository of people's stories showing mobiles in their everyday life and the changes they bring in our society.

These stories will include photos, videos, narratives, in some cases even data collections, that represent individual observations from a wide range of people around the world.

    * "My first mobile"
    * "Novel use of mobiles for group-organization and communication."
    * "Use of mobiles for remote medicine and health monitoring."
    * "Educational uses in developing countries."
    * "Raw data from our recent survey on pensioners' use of mobiles."
    * "Mobile VOIP reduces our business overheads."
      ... and many others we (currently) can't imagine.

This sounds like fun. I have to start sending in my snapshots as soon as it's running. Right now they are looking for research partners for making it happen. If you have skills or can influence your org to take up on this task, please contact the foundation at MobileSnapshots@symbian.org.


 

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