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Video: Nokia’s “LinkedUI” concept is like FriendFeed, but built into your device

Categories: Nokia
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 2:57 AM

FriendFeed is a service similar to Twitter, but what it does differently is allow you to add the services you’re using so that they can be aggregated and people can comment on them. Back in the day when everyone was using an RSS reader, and Twitter wasn’t even out yet, if I wanted to track what you were doing on Delicious, Flickr, YouTube, or any other online service, I had to go to each and every one of them manually or subscribe to them via my RSS reader. It made following what a person was doing online a pain in the ass. LinkedUI, as demoed here by Mikko Honkala of Nokia Research Center Helsinki, gives us a demo of what aggregating your friends’ digital footprints could look in future Nokia devices:

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Jody

    Heh, demo is running on a disguised N900 :-) .