Lifeblog Usage Notes

Is the N73 with Lifeblog the ultimate blogging device? As I write this, standing up on the Tube on my way home. I’m tempted to say ‘yes.’ It certainly provides a content creation environment where you can quickly jot down thoughts, and with the predictive text input, it’s not that painful, for short entries. It’s especially well suited to environments like this where pulling out a laptop is just not an option. Composing blog entries with both text and photos though is not as straight-forward as I’d like it to be. Likewise for inserting links or text involving lots of words not in the predictive dictionary. The PC counterpart application also is a bit bewildering as to its intended use. I’d rather have a great mobile-only app than a half-way there PC-mobile suite. What features would I most like to see? Well, the lifeblog app neatly collects all your messaging traffic and presents it in a neat timeline (presumably for you to draw on while blogging) but then presents no easy way for you

…and that’s where it stopped accepting input. Apparently, the Lifeblog text note object has a hard limit of 826 characters. So… we’re not there yet, but I honestly do see big potential. To finish these thoughts now that I’m sitting in front of my Powerbook, Lifeblog needs to make it easy for me to filter all of these messages and photos, and it needs to be easy to associate items together. Three images, for instance, might all belong together, along with a text note which incorporates comments received in 3 text messages. This all needs to be put together and uploaded as one chunk a the push of a button. Right now it looks like Lifeblog only supports fairly rudimentary photo blogging, but you can see the potential there. The interface is really slick. I eagerly await an upgrade.

And by the way, one of the comments to my earlier post on the N73 pointed me to some documentation on Flickr about how to post through them to Blogger from Lifeblog. Great, except it didn’t work and also it’s a hack. Maybe Google needs to get their act together and write a Blogger client for S60, but honestly I’d rather just have clients and services that work together using standard protocols and APIs.

Liked this post? Follow this blog to get more. 

2 Comments on “Lifeblog Usage Notes

  1. Hi!

    From your article I understand that you do use the Nokia N73 together with a Powerbook and Bluetooth.
    Is there a trick to make this connectin work?
    Unfortunately my Powerbook G4 12″ won’t recognise my Nokia N73 via bluetooth.. neither the other way round.
    Please contact me: j.stoltmann (at) arcor.de

  2. Hi,

    I’m using n93 to moblog
    : from LifeBlog > Flickr > Blogspot
    no problem at all.

    There isn’t a need to hack anything as well. Where is the site that you have mentioned about the guide?

    I did not face the 800+ character limit as well.
    In fact, my latest moblog uploaded via Lifeblog has around 1300+ characters.

    take a look if you are free:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/saklasthefool
    saklas.blogspot.com

    cheers!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.