Lifeblog Beta Released


I’ve been waiting for this for a while: Nokia’s Lifeblog software beta has been released (for Windows). Background from the BBC:

The Lifeblog software automatically arranges all the messages, images, videos and sound clips people capture with their phones.

The PC software organises information on a timeline and lets people add to the collection with images from other digital still and video cameras.

Eventually the software will let people publish some or all of the information they collect to the web to let them create their own biographical blog.

An interesting reconfiguration of the blog – a “lifeblog” is evidently a kind of chronological scrapbook that hybridizes diarising daily experiences, consumption habits and visual documentation of events and relationships. I am very interested to see what Nokia users do with it – something that Nokia most sensibly knows that they do not yet know.


One response to “Lifeblog Beta Released”

  1. hi jean,

    first comment on your blog, I was waiting for the right time/news.

    “lifeblog” reminds me some idea that was developped from MS research some time ago… the idea to record the whole life of someone. I guess that the project was dismissed, but the idea is still around. lifeblog logs relationships and set up some kind of “illustrated novel” of our life. very intresting especially if you think about the relationship that occurs between identity and novelisation in postmodern society.

    ps: nice blog!

    /luca