That would be "Longlist potential participants co-creation session 8th October".

A week ago, I replied to Marieke's private message request for information, but I haven't heard anything since. How were you notified?

Got an email today to email address registered here saying thanks but no thanks. Expressed surprise and regret, got another sorry but thanks but no thanks again.

If you haven't got a rejection that may be good in your case. Typically rejections go out first in my experience.

I'm getting the impression that being nominated by other members here may have been a deciding factor. That could also work in your favor.

I think a smart agent would be awesome. This software agent would take info from browser searches, MP3 ID, EXIF in pictures, etc to form a profile of what type of content I consume, and offer it to me in a non-annoying way.

This software agent could be linked to Ovi and my Ovi profile. In that way, regardless my device switching, the agent would help me to find my content.

The big problem? Privacy. I guess there could be multiple boxes you could check or un-check to avoid the agent scanning stuff you don't want to.

Mozilla Weave is useful to synchronize your content discovery between your Mozilla browsers. I will thoroughly enjoy it on my Nokia N900.

The nice thing? You decide what data you sync (bookmarks, open tabs, cookies, history, etc), data with server is transfered encrypted, login/passwd is different from master passwd, the server side is completely open source allowing you to run your own server.

So e.g. instead of having to e-mail yourself a URL you can just sync it with Mozilla Weave, and instead of having to log in with your N900 you can use the saved login/passwd from your Mozilla Firefox on laptop instead.

Firefox location API will also be interesting...

PS: Sad you're not invited Texrat...

Right, which is where you expect the agent to "learn" over time, which brings us back to the semantic web and ultimately to (some good approximation of) artificial intelligence.

Or this...

http://halfbackflanker.files.wordpre...er-800x600.jpg

Sorry, the joke was inevitable.

Who is that supposed to be. Google?

Maybe (http://www.walyou.com/img/google-chr...ft-windows.jpg). At times they see to be too interested in my personal data.

The next best thing in Content Discovery?

Recognizing that there is no absolute truth, i.e. one right answer. What I like to see is different than what you like to see. Recognizing the context: what I would like to see at any given moment is influenced by the context of where I am and what am I doing.

Then again, recognizing the common patterns. I share my tastes tremendously with few of my friends. If they like something, I'm very much likely to also like the same thing.

I.e. being able to get this information and utilize it out while still preserving privacy. Content Discovery systems would recommend content and functions to me based on a set of real other users, and what they have selected/preferred in a moment that has the same kind of context as my current moment, without the system having to reveal what this set of users is. And I don't think these can be predefined or designed with manual intelligence, it would just need to be a self-learning and adapting system. Regression analysis, neural networks etc. The more people would use it, the smarter it would become.

I don't know if this would be reasonable, so please correct me, but I'd go about it like this:

Nokia has some dealings with facebook, so just make sure that when you set up a facebook app. on say N900 or whatever device the disclaimer giving Nokia access to the personal info is there. Redo this for X number of social sites and pool the data at say OVI. Then you use this data as a basis for interactions, such as girlfriends birthday, stores with music that the person likes (although this will probably direct them into OVI music instead, but still) etc., this will also be perfect for integrating with the GPS/Maps feature. You then add onto this data with the actions performed by the customer, searches for restaurants etc. possibly autoupdate facebook if you say buy three albums with the same band?

Now even I feel that this is invading quite a bit on my privacy, and as I've stated before I live in China so I know something about the subject (btw, they should probably include renren wang as well for us china-dwellers). But if you want a device that acts on your likes you will have to tell it about them, it's like any good relationship really.

I think the biggest problem will be to get people to set up the account and start using it, this needs to be made ridiculously simple and pain-free, maybe start by using the device number and then tying that to the accounts accessed by it? Assuming of course that people are OK with this sort of thing.