Let’s start the year by publishing one of the Women in Mobile interviews I promised you still for 2005, the only one I did until now the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper… btw: my first real time interview, yeah one’s never too old to learn new things

I had the pleasure to meet Anina in person on an evening after the Nokia Mobility Conference here in Barcelona. Besides the classic interview questions we drifted off the whole evening trying out our mobile media on each other and exploring what web 2.0 was all about, especially within a mobile context; an Anina made media clip of that evening can be viewed here.

But let’s get on with Anina herself! Praised by many, criticized by some, but undoubtedly a real mobility queen. She uploads her life on anina.net spiced with stories including pictures and video clips of her day-to-day life as a fashion model. She is truly globally connected and mobile all the time. Don’t miss her 360º Fashion project she launched last year, sponsored by Nokia, with some other people working in fashion, which shows us the life behind the scenes of the fashion business.

Since I met her mid-November, Wired News wrote about her, she has been speaking at Les Blogs 2.0 and she has been visiting Nokia in Finland, check the other stuff, not mentioned here, on her blog.

If you want to know how urban globetrotters use their mobile nowadays, you have to read this.

- What brought you into mobile?
In the beginning of my modelling work I used a PDA to organize my global activities while travelling but the PDA was too big and not practical to do what I wanted to do so I switched to a Nokia 7650 phone that was able to combine both, so I just started using it.

-What brought you into moblogging?
In November 2004 I organized an exhibition in Paris and started the Lifeblog project. It was there I realized the power to use the mobile phone as a media tool. I realized I could present myself as a different kind of super model, and become a positive role model for teenage girls and women in general.

What’s the point of being famous? We are living in an image-based society so I want to take maximum advantage of the media to explain there are possibilities for women to do things different, become a personality. If I can do it, anybody can…

My new objective became to become an Icon.

- Can you explain more about your work? Not the modelling but the coding?
(FYI: Anina does a lot of the coding herself on anina.net)

I am a living test lab for Nokia developers (LOL)

Models are the most mobile people in the world so it’s so obvious we start using the tools that are out there. I develop myself certain applications since I’m using the phone, its’ applications and possibilities at its most intense level. I am having fun doing it and I can help non-technical people how to use technology and show him or her that if I can do it anyone can.

Anina.net is for the people, by the people, with the people!

- Geek model nº1 combined with fashion?
Fashion needs technology as technology needs fashion; I want to bridge the two.

- How does mobile technological progress influences your daily routine as a globetrotter?
I rely heavily on my mobile in my profession; I am travelling all the time and need to stay connected 24 hrs/day. My agents on different continents need to get in touch with me whatever time zone they or I am in, it’s all about global business, staying connected all the time, being reachable.

- Which tools you use to publish (moblog) your work?
Lifeblog
Email
Bluetooth to PC
MMS (hardly, last option!)

Global interoperability is really important for me to be able to moblog what I’m doing whenever, wherever; this is sometimes really difficult due to different roaming agreements between operators.

- Which applications and services do you use often on your phone?
In general I use ALL applications extensively but since you insist, here my favourites:

Camera phone
Video
Lifeblog
Calendar
SMS
Email
Muvee (FYI: Nokia video editing application)
Photo recording
Voice recording

- Would you use your device to interact with other machines?
Absolutely, I use it now already to connect to my PC, PDA and other devices, for example I use it with a Bluetooth keyboard and headset.

- Which cool interactive machinery can you think of?
Nokia jewellery
iFrame
Web cam
Mediacenter
Jukebox
Car
Data-matrix (semacode)
Screens (SMS2TV)
RFID

- Would you download mp3 tunes on your phone? Share them with friends? Mobsharing?
Yes, and even share them with my friends, why not?

- To browse the Mobile Internet, which browsers do you use?
Integrated Nokia browser.

- Web 2.0? What does it mean to you?
Reinventing the web, it’s all about new services and content to be distributed in a different way to any device, no? Also I think the key element here is the user-driven content; the new applications/technology will create a new boom for anybody to create his own content.

- User generated content?
360º Fashion

- Mobile web 2.0?
micro.anina.net (on your mobile!)

- What are the next trends presented at the Nokia Mobile Conference?
It was all about convergence… But my attention went especially to:
Browser M80
Mobile TV
FlashLite 2.0
N71 (Bluetooth + Wi-Fi)

- Mososo + wi-fi + urban networks?
= meet your next boyfriend
+ craigslist = find a place to live

- 3G vs. Wi-Fi?
3G = for anyone, everywhere (assuming 3G becomes affordable for everyone)
Wi-Fi = for urban nomads and mobile jet setters

- Applications? Flashlite? SVG?
… Beam me your business plan!
Quick Office applications: Word for press releases, then to PDF, Spreadsheet for figures and PowerPoint to show my presentations.

- How do you see the future of mobile?
The interconnectivity of (the) human spirit(s)

- Who inspires you professionally?
360º Fashion project people

- Your favourite mobile technology blog(s)?
mobilejones
Boingboing
Darla Mack
Slashdot
Anina.net

- Your favourite moblog?
Loic Le Meur moblog

- Your favourite mobile device?
Should be able to create, send, and interact contents with my contacts.

- The ultimate tech device you would like to have but not invented yet?
The mobile as my ultimate remote control to interact with anything I want/need:
STOP-REWIND (a situation)
ERASE-PLAY AGAIN possibilities for good or bad moments in life
PAY-PLAY

INTERACT WITH REALITY so you can stop and redo it better.

- Which links would you like to be included?
All the ones mentioned before?

- Who else could you recommend to be interviewed next?
Jennifer Byrne from MFORMA.

- Anything else you would like to add?
May all being be happy and free.

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