power of big numbers

if all Nokia users would pull off their chargers when not used, we could power 100,000 average European houses.

more Nokia jobs within open source and Maemo

my colleague Quim Gil has noted that his team is looking for somebody, who is very good at serving developers, i.e. position of product manager of the Maemo development platform at Nokia

also, for those who want to look straight for Maemo software related jobs (i.e. you want to work with Maemo, Linux, Nokia tablets, etc) among all open positions at Nokia , there is special section at maemo.org site named "maemo jobs" - have a look and please don't miss that "next" at bottom, as there is more than one page at the moment ;)

Espoo and Helsinki - better weather and more photos

As one may have noticed, better weather makes me more prone to go out there and try to record what I see around. It might be short photo sketch like these

flowers in my neighborhood

warm days in Helsinki

or it might be longer shooting session with 100+ images and major walk through several areas of Helsinki or Espoo, like these

Samba carnival in Helsinki calls for walk

Sunday walk with camera through western Helsinki

Helsinki day, 2008

two very important quotes about software industry

they seem to be about Netscape, AOL and time-line of "Netscape Navigator"-then-Mozilla projects in first place... but removing particular company & projects names makes it into different dimension.

Why? Because the company stopped innovating. The company got big, and big companies just aren't creative. There exist counterexamples to this, but in general, great things are accomplished by small groups of people who are driven, who have unity of purpose. The more people involved, the slower and stupider their union is.

And there's another factor involved, which is that you can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company. Netscape's early success and rapid growth caused us to stop getting the former and start getting the latter.

bold selections are mine.

nomo zilla, resignation and postmortem © 1999 by Jamie Zawinski, Author of Netscape Navigator, "used to be a hacker, now run a nightclub."

on maemo, open source and business

my colleague recently noticed that Openmoko turn of strategy is very synchronous to what Nokia only contemplates... are they one step ahead or making piggy-back-in-future investments again? :)