Paul Jacobson

Category: Business and work

  • Ovi.com is more meh than mind blowing

    I posted this one a little too soon so I have edited it a little. The edits are in italics or strikethrough. Sorry about the premature posting! Ovi.com is Nokia’s answer to MobileMe (formerly .Mac) and a collection of similar services operated by the likes of Google. At least, that is how I see Ovi.com.…

  • How your Nokia N97 is built and prepared to ship to you

    I just noticed this video showing how your Nokia N97 is assembled and prepared to be shipped to you. This is a rare look at Nokia’s assembly line and worth watching. I linked to this video from the Nokia Conversations blog which posted this background to the video: Carita, from the Nokia Conversations team, was…

  • Interview with Nokia SA's General Manager

    Fleishman-Hillard invited me to meet with and interview Mathia Nalappan, Nokia South Africa’s General Manager, last week. I sat down for an hour with Mathia and Tania Steenkamp, Nokia South Africa and Southern Africa’s Communications Manager and chatted about topics ranging from models for rural areas to Nokia’s environmental efforts to the new Nokia N97.…

  • The Social Web TV

    I have discovered The Social Web TV. The episode I am watching features John McCrea and Joseph Smarr from Plaxo and David Recordon from Six Apart. Here is the basic intro to the new Web TV show: Who owns your data and content? Why don’t the social networks and communication tools you use work well…

  • Buy the bigger MacBook?

    I am going to buy my wife her first Mac this next month and we pretty much settled on the mid-range white MacBook. It goes for about R13 000 which I am ok with. I got myself a black MacBook in October last year and the new, white MacBook is more powerful and will more…

  • Yahoo! embraces the Semantic Web in a big way

    I am not sure if anyone has taken a look at this in much detail (I haven’t), but it looks like a pretty significant step … Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web – Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry Stii, any thoughts? Technorati Tags:yahoo, semantic web, search, open architecture, open search

  • Send me your skilled – connecting people

    Send me your skilled – connecting people

    Now and then I know people who want to meet people. I enjoy connecting people (authentically) so I thought I’d offer to help.

  • All are welcome at Mugg & Bean – repost

    My wife and I had breakfast at the Mugg & Bean in Killarney on Sunday.  We overheard an anti-semitic comment from someone we thought was a Mugg & Bean person and I published a blog post about it on my personal blog which I have subsequently updated for reasons that will become clear when you…