Comments on: Nokia’s Blog Daddy Looks for Next Act

By: SW

SW — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:13:03 +0000

I really feel Christian Lindholm is out of his element here. This man, while working for Nokia, had few ideas himself. Being called the Father of the Series 60 is, without a doubt, overblown. He knows who and where the whole concept comes from. Just ask him about Mother program. And he knows damn well who was the first to develop this interface.

This man is a political animal. He takes the work of other individuals. There is a long list of people he has done wrong.

Surely Yahoo should know what lies this man bases his resume on. And surely Yahoo is a company that will see this man is way out of his league.

If you want a list of the real people who has done the work, it would be easy to show. Also Christian can see the user specifications of the " Mother Program" which could be in my possession. Ask him to explain all of this. Father of the Series 60?? No way

Somebody could really dig into the real Lindholm and come up with the truth.

By: Ryan Davis

Ryan Davis — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:40:38 +0000

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By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog — » Yahoo and Google Unwire

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog — » Yahoo and Google Unwire — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:08:05 +0000

[...] Christian Lindholm, the father of Lifeblog software and Navikey UI leaves Nokia . A few weeks later Lindholm joins Yahoo. A few months later WSJ publishes plans of Yahoo teaming up with SBC and Cingular of joining a co-branded phone made by Nokia. WSJ calls this move “launch of services for advanced cellphone networks.” The cellphone will play digital music, and will have a 1.3 megapixel camera, and be able to do other stuff like TV. (Sounds like 6682, doesn’t it!) I am guessing this is Cingular looking for content for its soon to be launched HSDPA network. Don’t worry, you won’t see the phone till next year. Yahoo just like to announce ahead of time, it seems [...]

By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Lifeblog’s daddy at Yahoo

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Lifeblog’s daddy at Yahoo — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:43:53 +0000

[...] My dear friend Christian Lindholm has left Nokia and joined Yahoo as VP of Global Mobile Product first based in London and then moving to California late in 2006. This indeed is good news, and a clear sign Yahoo is very serious about the mobile space. Christian who helped father the first real moblog app, Lifeblog, thinks Nokia is doing pretty well but its time for him to change. CL was also the father of the Nokia Series 60 and Navi-key UI. He and Russell in the same office… imagine! Talking about Russell, his love affairs with OSes are beginning to resemble the love life of Paris Hiliton. Today he is sweating Linux. CL, I know, will clearly add more magic to Flickr! In Unwired Posted Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 2:43 PM PT [...]

By: charlie

charlie — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:58:37 +0000

om,

your kind words mean a lot to us. christian has taught me a lot over the years, first as we worked on different parts of series 60, and then as i worked with him in the lifeblog team.

not only has he taught me to always think of the total experience (not just usability) of a product or service, but he labeled a new attitude for us: wasabi.

one day as we were reviewing the early marketing of lifeblog, he said (as best as i can reconstruct): ‘charlie, the marketing is great, but it needs a bit of wasabi. sushi is just raw fish, but when you as wasabi – woosh!’

well, since then, we put wasabi (and irreverence) into everything we did, breaking a ton of corporate standard practices along the way, getting the job done, and succeeding marvelously considering our minuscule team size and budget.

we were so successful, so much so that the main-line businesses finally woke up and took the whole project for themselves. it was what we wanted, but put christian and i out of a job. ;-)

let’s hope these multimedia group guys keep the wasabi flowing.

tchau,

charlie