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Twango, who has just been acquired by Nokia last year, now becomes Share for Ovi. Here is the announcement from Twango’s blog.

First, we are now part of Nokia?s new service brand, “Ovi”. As of Today, the Twango brand will be a fond memory. We are now Share on Ovi.

For those who don’t know about Share for Ovi (twango), it is media sharing service; similar to flickr. You can upload pictures (as well as video) and then share them with your friends. Personally, I like the user interface of Share for Ovi. It is very clean and easy to navigate. It has a great potential. And by the way, they have a mobile version of their site too - http://mobile.twango.com. Point your camera to the barcode below (note that the URL may change in the future).

The current service is still beta. As such, there are still some important features missing. For example, the integration with the device is not seamless because lack of mobile client (this should be coming soon). The GPS coordinate embedded in the pictures, for example using Nokia Location Tagger, is also not parsed properly yet.

How do we upload and share media using Share for Ovi?

• You can always use PC to upload your media files via http://www.twango.com (the URL may change in the future). You can also use Windows XP Web Publishing Wizard, which allows you to upload a large numbers of media files.
• How about mobile devices? Since there is no mobile client available yet; the only possibility is using email. Now you can use Nokia Online Share 3.0 to upload to Share on Ovi.
• A couple of months back, The PhoneBoy Blog has posted a trick to upload your media files via Nokia Lifeblog.
  Unfortunately, I was not able to use the trick (not sure why though)

Bonus Links

• We are now Share on Ovi! (Twango’s blog)
• Posting to Twango from Lifeblog or Online Share (PhoneBoy Blog)

Update (11-Feb-2008): Use Nokia Share Online to upload media files to Share on Ovi directly from your mobile device.

Robert Scoble has just compared Taptu versus Google for mobile search. Surprisingly, in some cases, Taptu is better than Google. Taptu works best for music and “fact finding” searches. It searches videos and web pages as well.

You can visit the mobile version of Taptu by visiting

http://www.taptu.mobi.

What makes Taptu better than Google for mobile search? Robert showed the result of music search on his video podcast. Here is another example. The following screenshots show the search result of “norah jones” on Google.

And there is the result on Taptu.

As you can see, the result of Taptu gives the picture of the singer as well as some links the sample songs from YouTube.

Bonus Links

• Google and Your S60 Phones - Part I (Google Web Search)
• Google and Your S60 Phones - Part II (Google SMS Search)
• Google and Your S60 Phones - Part III (Google YouTube for Mobile)
• Google and Your S60 Phones - Part IV (Google 411 Service)

Today, I read an announcement from Jukka Eklund, one of the S60 bloggers. The announcement is about Mobile Web Server. What is it all about? As its name implies, Mobile Web Server is a Web server running on our S60 device. Okay… what makes this Web server is so fantastic?

Imagine that you have a web server running on your device. Now, you open your Web browser on your PC and connect to the web browser. What can you do with that? Many things… the sky is the limit. Here are some examples what you can do using Mobile Web Server:

Taking picture from your camera

Retrieving contacts from your device’s phone book

Sending SMS from the Web

Accessing your Gallery on the device

There are some more features of Mobile Web Server. It’s better if you try it yourself. It’s really cool.

Please visit https://secure.mymobilesite.net/ to register and download Mobile Web Server