As can be seen on their official blog and on their product info Nokia is introducing a new widgets solution, dedicated to S60 3rd edition handsets.
A closer look at it explains things better: They are providing a stand alone web applications using their browser (yes you get the awkard mouse moving mechanisms also ;)).
The solution is not available yet anyway.
Several open questions remain:
Is Nokia’s Widsets still a priority? If so, why a second initiative?
What do all the other manufacturers do? Will they all provide a proprietary solution?
One thing’s for sure, this creates even more mobile widgets awareness and this is very positive.
My guess is that Nokia may be the first to announce, but will not be the first to market, stay tuned in the coming days
Update from allaboutsymbian: “Nokia has gone widget-mad, introducing full widget (mini-apps built on Ajax and Javascript) support into S60, beginning with S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (so we’re looking at next year for the first devices with full widget support)“
For those of you that still haven’t made the transition to a full Mac OS experience (including the hardware), you should:
Give it a try!
If you’re really an adventurous spirit, go and try to install it on your pc. For having done it several times, this is by far the most complete guide to what’s called Hackintosh Vista dual boot on your Windows machine.
And here’s a small video demonstrating how it works after installation
Looks like every web company wants to have the biggest part possible of your social activity these days (Myspace, Facebook, Skyblog…).
It used to be your money through ecommerce & auctions, it’s now your social life everybody wants to have a part of, but don’t be fooled, your social life is just an other way to monetize you, in a better way, through your eyes seeing ads, using affiliation mechanisms, all offers being better targeted at your needs.
Anyway, I saw yesterday the story over at Techcrunch that Mozilla is also going social. It reminded me that almost one year ago, I proposed an equivalent concept to Flock named digifriends… I know they’re working on it but I can’t understand why they are delivering so slowly…
And when I’m saying free, I mean DRM free. In fact, it’s even more expensive to buy free music than to buy DRM protected one
The reason for this aberration is that it’s high quality (256kbs) encoding, so you get either semi good DRM protected for a lower price or high quality for a higher price. However, this doesn’t apply to full album sales.
Overall, this is a good news for many users that were pissed of by Apple’s proprietary DRM technology that only works on iPods (ok I have a video iPod so…). This is also good news since it’s a mini earthquake that will force the whole industry to move in this direction sooner or later, let’s see how the Microsoft camp reacts now…
The concept is very simple, it allows you to welcome your visitors on your site with a simple bubble that pops up on your site. I’ll try it as soon as I have shaved & prepare a very official discourse
Thanks Philippe from Accessoweb for this finding.
As can be seen on their official blog and on their product info Nokia is introducing a new widgets solution, dedicated to S60 3rd edition handsets.
And when I’m saying free, I mean DRM free. In fact, it’s even more expensive to buy free music than to buy DRM protected one 
