Mobile Web Server Challenge

There's a competition that some of you might be interested:

Sign up for the Mobile Web Server Challenge and get a chance to win one of several prizes and an opportunity to show your winning contribution on the Mobile Web Server forums!

In nutshell:

  • Your contribution: knowledge articles and/or software development

  • Deadline: May 30, 2008

  • Eligibility: some requirements, read the details carefully

  • Prizes: Nokia Nseries devices and Ovi service vouchers

Happy Easter!! (out of town for awhile)

Two quick notes, my friends:

I'll be traveling until 30 March, with very limited time for following and participating Beta Labs related online debate (the actual development teams will still be there).

Getting press - part II

Yay! There's a story about Nokia Beta Labs in the front pages of Digitoday and Taloussanomat (Finnish tech & business magazines).

Thanks Aleksi!! As you wrote such a good piece, you are forgiven for publishing that dorky picture...

Nseries PC Suite 2.0 graduates

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My Mobile Site widgets review and plans

Guest blogger: Marton Szomolanyi from My Mobile Site Widgets team

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Sorry for the late post. I'm a typical developer who Tommi wrote about. I need to train/educate myself to treat public discussion with higher priority.

So what were the conclusions of My Mobile Site widgets trial?

    Beta Labs Archive created (and Device Status moved there)

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    As you might have noticed, we have set up a new section called Nokia Beta Labs Archive:

    Bug-o-meter

    Quite a many of you have asked us to indicate the technical maturity of the apps and services available here at Beta Labs. We liked the idea. When people have the right expectation level, everybody wins:

    • diehard-users can play around with early releases

    • others can wait until the app is "mature enough"

    • feedback becomes much more constructive

    Here's the technical maturity scale we came up with:

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    Gizmo for S60 updated to 1.1.012

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    Gizmo for S60 was updated to version 1.1.012. The concept seems to be decisively approaching maturity...

    Nokia Beta Labs Contributor of the Month, February 2008: Geoff

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    As Nokia Maps 2.0 beta launch was the obvious highlight of Feb 2008 here in Beta Labs, I asked the Nokia Maps development team to nominate the Contributor of the Month. Seems that it was an easy task:

    "Geoff seems to be the frontrunner in the quality of the comments."

    - one manager from Nokia Maps team

    "Geoff! Definitely. I don't even need to check, I remember his name by heart."

    Ad-powered Download! client beta trials: conclusions

    Max Waterman just wrote a comment about our Ad-powered Download! client beta trial that ended in December 2007:

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