Archive for April, 2010

Read your FT by checking in to Foursquare

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

An interesting recent announcement (via mocoNews.net) is the idea that you can swap Foursquare check-in points for paid content of the Financial Times. Foursquare did already have various specials based on check-ins, being mayor etc., but this deal swaps on-line “currency” for on-line digital content, which is a completely virtual trade.

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New Nokia Maps impressive

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Last week (or was it the week before that?) I got an update alert for Nokia Maps. Just in time as my trial days for the Nokia Maps version pre-installed on my N86 MP8 were almost counted.

I had to free some space on my c: drive (did you know your Nokia S60 has c:, d: etc drives? I did but it still feels bizar to read that in an error message intended for the end-user) which wasn’t as easy as expected. But of course eventually it succeeded.

It is quite stunning what you get for free:

  • The user interface is slick and smooth.
  • There’re built-in Lonely Planet guides, as well as
  • Michelin Restaurant guides.
  • Several views (2d, 3d…)

Hard times ahead for Garmin, TomTom and the likes…

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