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9th September 2004 - Nokia and Six Apart today announced
that they are collaborating to create a powerful blogging
experience for people who want to share their lives
online as they happen. Mobile web logging is one of
the most dynamic areas in content sharing today, making
people able to publish content on the World Wide Web
using their handsets. TypePad's enhanced set of media
features have been designed by Six Apart and Nokia to
enable blogging both with mobile phone and PC. Blogging
provides the rapidly increasing number of camera phone
users a new way of benefiting from their mobile phone.
"Several trends are converging, making it not only
possible but also easy to document your life and share
it with others, from anywhere," said Barak Berkowitz,
Six Apart's CEO. "Use of camera phones is now widespread,
and weblogging is being increasingly adopted by consumers.
The ubiquity of Internet access makes it possible to
remotely share your experiences with family and friends.
By combining Six Apart's TypePad and Nokia Lifeblog
enhanced mobile capabilities, we're making it easy for
people to stay in touch no matter where they are."
"Nokia Lifeblog is further evolving into a great
tool for life sharing. Thanks to the collaboration with
Six Apart, a shaper in the blog community, users will
be able to upload multimedia like photos, videos, text
messages, and multimedia messages to their TypePad account,"
said Christian Lindholm, Director of Multimedia Applications,
Nokia Ventures Organization. "With the Nokia Lifeblog
application and TypePad from Six Apart, we can help
operators and other service providers to offer their
customers the best possible mobile blogging experience."
TypePad's award-winning personal publishing service
provides a simple, elegant environment for people to
communicate and share their life. TypePad's full-featured
intuitive interface requires no installation or technical
expertise. With these new enhanced mobile capabilities,
users can more easily send photos and images directly
from their mobile devices and digital camera phones
and have them posted on the web in professionally created
designs optimized for mixed media.
Nokia Lifeblog is a mobile phone and PC application
solution that keeps an organized multimedia diary of
the items you collect with your mobile phone. Nokia
Lifeblog can be used with the Nokia 7610 phone and later
on with selected other Nokia Series 60 phones. Nokia
Lifeblog 1.0 will be available during autumn 2004.
TypePad's new mobile features and the web features of
Nokia Lifeblog will be demonstrated at DEMOmobile, a
gathering of mobile industry key players in La Jolla,
CA. The blogging capability of Nokia Lifeblog is based
on the open ATOM standard, and will be available early
2005.
About Six Apart
Six Apart Ltd., based in San Mateo, CA, is the company
behind the Movable Type publishing system and the TypePad
personal weblogging service. Founded by husband and
wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott in 2002 and funded
by Neoteny Co., Ltd., Six Apart creates tools that enable
hundreds of thousands of individuals, organizations
and corporations to participate in the Web's full potential
by publishing their ideas on the Internet with simple,
yet powerful software and services. For more information
about Six Apart, TypePad and Movable Type, visit the
Six Apart corporate weblog at www.sixapart.com.
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