Nokia N8 promo

HD video recording, 12 megapixel camera - now that is just unheard of for mobile phones. Does this mean that Nokia will finally start to fight back against the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices? If this does not succeed, I really don't know what will. Nokia might not retain the first position in the market for mobile devices for very long... This will make them or break them.



But anyway, great promo. Shot entirely with Nokia N8, it is undeniably impressive.
Find out more about the phone here.

When will Google get their movie?

So now that the Social Network is out, I can't help but wonder when someone is finally going to make a movie about the founding of Google!

I am a huge fan of The Google Story, it's one of the most captivating books I've read over the past few years... Unfortunately, I still haven't read Googled, and I hear that they might actually be making a movie out of the latter book. Nonetheless, I am still waiting for a Hollywood adaptation of The Google Story!

The Social Network and what it meant to me

So, I finally managed to go see "The Social Network". I thought the movie was great, but I'm sure Mark Zuckerberg would disagree. The Facebook CEO was portrayed as an annoying, arrogant, quirky, selfish geek with almost no moral integrity. Seems to me like his hunger for money and power took the best of him, as cliche as that sounds. Now, I say this having done a little background check on the guy, and on how poorly he treated his former friends and co-founders of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Moskovitz. After all, the movie was based on a book, which in itself was loosely based on facts and included a lot of speculation and invented dialogue, as its author publicly admitted.

Therefore, I wouldn't believe too much of the story behind Facebook, but I have to say that I like the message that the movie conveys: Entrepreneurship and creativity are the drivers of social and economic change. I left the cinema hungry for success, knowing that I wanna definitely want to start my own business. Eduardo Saverin put that message very well in a guest post he wrote for CNBC. If you're even remotely interested in entrepreneurship - do check it out here. 

Speaking of Eduardo Saverin, kudos to Andrew Garfield who definitely tops my list of actors to watch in 2011. I can't wait to see him in the new Spiderman, and more importantly, Never Let Me Go. By the way, the latter movie has a trailer that I have seen about ten times, it is so beautiful and frightening at the same time - can't wait!

Back to The Social Network, though. Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher have done a great job in terms of writing and directing, but the real winner to me is the soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Dark and ominous, melancholic at times - perfect companion for a late night session at the computer. Good night.