Java ME and Flash Lite expert in Forum Nokia Americas, Mountain View. Besides mobile technologies, interested in HCI and the use of technology in sports.
hartti | 13 March, 2008 02:30
It has been a while (loosely speaking, strictly speaking better term is number of months) since I last wrote anything here. Of course you have been able to find my witty (again, loosely speaking...) comments on FN discussion boards, but those are all only answers to someones problems, not anything original.
On with the show. As some of you have seen we have had the video player on our Lobby site, which we have used to highlight videos related to mobile development. After our recent (small) site update the player got more capabilities and we can now point that to videos on stored on existing video libraries, like YouTube. So we are not limited to the videos we have produced on our own. Trust me, this is a good thing.
This also means that the rotation of the videos gets faster. And at least for the following next months the videos will be highlighted based on monthly themes. March is Web runtime, Widget, Widset, what say you....
The current one out is a headspinning gameplay video of Bombus Widget for WidSets from Lancaster University, which seems to have about 140,000+ downloads at the Widset Web site.
What's the next one? Send your suggestions to me, either through this blog or to my email (you know my first and last name and surprisingly Nokia uses firstName.lastName in the email addresses...)
hartti | 13/03/2008, 21:05
Oh... My wording above seems to need some clarification.
With "What's next" I was thinking more of "What's the next video to be showcased" than "What's the next technology topic"...
But I'll keep Python in mind.
The intention is to follow the Forum Nokia monthly themes for now. March for Widget/Web Runtime/what say you, April for Flash, May for LBS, etc...
coultonp | 14/03/2008, 11:36
Hartti
Thanks for picking Bombus its an project Will and I have really enjoyed especially when see how well people have downloaded to the game :).
A suggestion for the following months
bogdan.galiceanu | 13/03/2008, 17:05
I think it's great to have a theme (in this case programming language) each month. I'd like to see Python being showcased (not necessarily next month, but sometime soon :))