First sunday of lent, a time to repent and reflect on Jesus' sacrifice of dying and rising. Help others who are less fortunate than us and be better Christians, and to be more humble and to fast.

First sunday of lent, a time to repent and reflect on Jesus' sacrifice of dying and rising. Help others who are less fortunate than us and be better Christians, and to be more humble and to fast.

Another busy day at work, got my hands on a Nokia XpressMusic 5800 aka Tube touch phone. It's geared towards the consumer than business

Nokia N86 8 Megapixel camera phone: http://ping.fm/JPRt3 Still waiting for N97 to come out in June!

Nokia ExpressMusic 5800 touch phone now in Beijing

Just read that the Nokia ExpressMusic 5800 touch phone (aka Tube), the competitor to Apple's iPhone is now available in Beijing today. Apparently, there is going to be a line up to get the phone, the phone is already available in Taiwan and Hong Kong.



I'm still waiting for the Nokia N97 that was announced at Nokia World 2008, that phone looks cool. The phone competition is really heating up in the touch display and UI world, but this gives great value and choice for customers. The Nokia ExpressMusic 5800 touch phone has been mainly marketed as a music phone that will cater to music lovers and young people with its hit feel and smaller size compared to the iPhone. So the ExpressMusic 5800 is in a different segment than the iPhone. The Nokia N97 however will be targetted for business users and seems will be made available in June of this year.

On Technorati: Nokia ExpressMusic 5800, Nokia N97

Nokia wins at Global Mobile Awards: Sports Tracker, CEO Environment Award, Best Mobile Handset - www.globalmobileawards.com/winners.shtml

Capturing your social network on Facebook

A friend of mine, Bernie Hogan, has created a Facebook application for capturing your social network of friends on Facebook as a UCINET data file so it can be imported into social network analysis tools. It is called My Online Social Network - Phase 1. Cool! There are also other Facebook applications that show your social networks, one is Nexus, which visualizes the social network as a graph. The Nexus app is cool, it generates the graph in real time and shows clusters or subgroups that represent your close friends together. The graph showed a cluster of my U of T friends, my University of Waterloo classmates from undergrad, my friends from TorCamp and my Nokia colleagues. You can also find a friend from the friend graph, change the layout to be radial instead of a spring graph.

Very cool, so try out these apps on Facebook!

On Technorati: Facebook social network, Facebook friend graph, Nexus

Facebook withdraws data changes, reverts back to previous terms of service: http://ping.fm/iF8XR

second day of meeting and still snowing in Beijing!

second day of meeting and it is still snowing!

Finished first day of meeting, another day of meetings tomorrow!

snowing in beijing todayand having a meeting offsite

Facebook is in talks with Nokia to bundle Facebook applications and connect Facebook through Nokia handsets http://ping.fm/cP6jp

Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona: http://ping.fm/T9lH7

it sounds like beijing is under attack - by fireworks!

Ahh! Paper has been extended until February 9, and I've been working so hard today to get the paper done in less than 2 hours remaining!

Finishing up writing a paper, it's due in 14.5 hours, working like mad because it's due at midnight tonight!

Google Latitude is out http://ping.fm/YHBPE haven't tried it yet, but hope to after finishing up writing a paper

i'm back in Beijing now and back from holidays and vacation. Now it's back to work!

In Yalong Bay, Hainan Island enjoying the sun, warm weather, beach, and water!