On March 1st I joined Nokia as Senior Product Manager, Internet Handhelds. I’m based in Helsinki. In Nokia’s org I work in the Convergence Products Business Program, which is part of the Multimedia group.

I’ll be responsible for the development of new Nokia products based on the open source Linux software architecture developed for the Nokia 770 internet tablet.

Analysis on Nokia’s Convergence Products act in Business Week last month:

One way or another, the 770 is a sharp break from Nokia’s past that points the way to a dramatically different future.

Here’s a link to the article.

Ray Ozzie is showing a demo of ‘Live Clipboard‘ here at ETech. It’s a way to copy structured (for instance, microformatted) data from a web page and paste it to another web service or desktop app while keeping the structure intact.

Some things this enables him to show:
– Copying an event from Eventful to your desktop calendar so it automagically gets placed in the proper date & time
– Copying your profile from MSN Spaces to Facebook, with the custom field for ‘location’ getting added to the profile
– Copying billing & shipping address information from the clipboard to an e-commerce site

This is going to significantly improve the Web-to-desktop app user experience. Here are screencasts of the demo. The work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike.

Microsoft got itself one hell of a CTO when it acquired Ozzie’s Groove Networks last year.