At each venue he stops at, there is also an opportunity to pitch your idea for an application you want to build as part of the Cute Qt competition. You have until the end of the trip (December 16th) to actually build something and there are some *sweet* prizes on offer from Nokia.
Oh, and don’t forget to ask Kristoffer to take your picture (or video) with the N8 he also has with him.

Check out this post where Nokia announces a new competition in association with the Travelling Salesman adventure.

It’s pretty easy. In theory it could be for any platform, but as the application needs to be built using Qt, building for non-native platforms would be adding a rather large extra chunk of work
The Nokia blog post give more details and a TON of links.

P.S. if you have not already, like the project’s Facebook page, as once it goes over 512, Krisotffer will have to pitch in Icelandic!

On Thursday there is a whole track dedicated to “New Mobile Ecosystem” (check the rest of the programme here).
If you are not registered yet there is still time , and find out how the large lady’s vocal cords are with Ari Jaaksi

The first couple of speakers have put at least a pencil on the papaer, and as soon as we get the ink dry will let you know.

We have started talking with Nokia again, and as they have lots of tech (Symbian, Meego, Qt, Qt Quick, QML, WRT…), we thought we would open the question up, what would you be most interested to see them talk about (and please try to resit and do not ask for things you *KNOW* they are not going to do/answer like “when are you going to Android?” etc!)

And of course if you think of other speakers, or other ideas let us know.

First, Microsoft announces the next version of Windows Mobile, called Windows Phone 7 series.

A good summary of it can be found on Joey deVilla’s blog. The long in-depth video requires siverlight as it is hosted on Microsoft’s Channel 9 blog, luckily, Joey has made comprehensive notes of the video.

Another blog compares the new eye candy to Apple’s iPhone and gives Microsoft the edge.
And it seems that there is some debate as to exactly how “multi-tasking” the new version really is, details on the Next Web blog

Next up, Nokia announces that they are partnering with Intel and combining the efforts of Maemo and Moblin to form MeeGo.
The top Nokian of Maemo Ari Jaaksi, announces it on his blog, then follows up with a re-assurance that N900 owners will not be forgotten.
Quim Gil posted an update over on the Maemo Forums, and also on his blog

The folks over at Qt have some details of the announcements of Qt being ported to Maemo5 and a beta of a smart installer for Symbian.
Not to get left behind in the eye candy stakes, I came across this post linking to a *really* cross platform demo app.

Oh, and here is a post titled UI Extensions for Mobile (Orbit) vs. Maemo 6 UI Framework, that goes into deep detail that lost me at least

If you are wondering how Nokia plans to fit all of their “stuff” together, they have written a 10 page PDF that has lots of diagrams that illustrate how it will all work.
You can download it from here

The aim of the event is to gather people togeather to work towards improving open web standards (OpenId, Oauth, PubSubHubbub etc).

The signup is via this Facebook event. You can learn more about it via the Wiki and there is also a blog