I’m glad there’s another option for those people who have things to say that wouldn’t be allowed on US soil. The major class I’m thinking of are those people who face legal threats from corporations like Monster Cables, known for their bullying of critics.

via The Register

UPDATE 4/18/2008: Google now shows “about 141″ sites on baywords.com.

Have you guys heard about this little mobile device OS called Symbian? You know, the one that doesn’t require its apps to be blessed by the device manufacturer and whose apps can be distributed for free, and using whatever distribution channel the developers like? The one which has already had tons of commercially successful applications?

You know, sometimes I just can’t shovel fast enough.

Slick is simple, fast, and functional. Eqo take note.

If you’d like VOIP functionality also, you can try Gizmo5, but I haven’t used it and the other two I tried, Eqo and Fring, were failures. Fring might be fine if all you’re doing is VOIP and using Slick for IM, but will probably run your battery down even faster.

He also shares my frustration with embedded video/podcasts, too. We need transcripts!

Chris, if you’re reading this, contact me here because I can’t reach anyone there.

As I expected, logging a support incident(I can log in there, just not the forum) was utterly useless. The first response said, “You’re using a beta, so there will be issues.”, missing the point of the site not working entirely, and the second response requested that I change my password to all lowercase, which I had already done based on the sticky thread in the forum mentioning this requirement.

This is the same thing that turned me off of cocomment. They have these droids working the support forum, who seem unable to do anything but make pointless and redundant suggestions to do things you’ve already tried.

I was a little skeptical about how well this would work, but it worked flawlessly. I just started the app, my phone established a 3G connection, and I pressed “Stream”. When I finished recording my short test video, I logged in to my profile, and there it was. The site feels very much like Flickr, with tagging and sharing and commenting and so on. Videos are public and include audio by default, but you can turn the microphone off and set videos to private from the phone. They’re working on an interface to title and tag from the phone, but that part’s not ready yet. I also had some site error editing my profile, but overall, I feel pretty comfortable declaring this a “killer app” simply because it makes it so simple and easy to share video, live.

One feature I’d really like to see phone details captured, similar to the way camera info is embedded in pictures, so you can browse by phone type, like on Flickr. I’d also like some invites, so I could bring in some of my friends who I think would love this, particularly those that already have a Flickr account. I’d also like integration with Plaxo, or Open Social in general. They already integrate with Twitter.

Of course, you’ll want a phone that takes decent video, but more than that, you’ll want a phone capable of high speed data and you’ll definitely want an unlimited data plan. I used my Nokia N75 to record the demonstration video, using the Symbian version of the software, and they pretty much only support Symbian phones right now, but, hey, you should get one because they’re the best phones on the market now anyways.

There’s more from this big guy, who’s apparently been quite excitedly using it.