It appears that lately mobile devices are becoming the catalysts for Lifestreaming. Last week I wrote about Nokia’s new Lifestreaming initiatives and today at the Mobilizer conference in San Francisco Motorola unveiled their first Android phone. The phone is called the Motorola Cliq. I’ve read quite a few posts on this new phone as well as watched video of it in action. I also watched the presentation and subsequent Mashable interview of Motorola Co-CEO Dr. Sanjay Jha.

In both the presentation and interview Sanjay focuses on the feed aggregation features of the device. Along with aggregation you can puplish status updates simultaneously across multiple sites all at once. After watching Sanjay in both videos it is clear to me Lifestreaming was designed to be front and center with this phone.

Motoblur is being referred to as a skin in many articles but it actually appears to be a collection of widgets that provide most of the phones features. I also think Motoblur has a service layer as well because in the presentation they discuss that it stores all your social media profiles along with authentication to keep the things fluid and simple. Also if your phone is lost or stolen you can re-authenticate with the service on a new phone.

GDGT live blogged the presentation and provided this Lifestream nugget during their coverage

10:39AM – Oh, sorry, it’s “MOTOBLUR” — OTA sync and backups, constantly updating lifestream. “It syncs contacts, posts, feeds, messages, emails, photos, and more from Facebook, Gmail, MySpace… integrated deep into the corners of the device.”

Photo courtesy of GDGT

I’ve provided 3 videos and several other resources to read more about the Cliq below

Motoroal Cliq Presentation at Mobilizer Conference

Hands-on with the Motorola Cliq

Adam Ostrow Interviews Motorola Co-CEO Dr. Sanjay Jha

Here are more resources available for the Motorola Cliq

• Official Motorola Cliq Press Release
• GigaOM Story on Cliq unveiling
• GigaOM Hands-on with the Cliq
• Mashable coverage of the Cliq
• Gizmodo – Motorola Cliq Gallery and Impressions
• Also…you can follow MotoMobile on Twitter if you’re interested in the Cliq

Nokia continues to be the one mobile company focused on exploiting Lifestreaming both on their devices as well as the web. A few months ago I wrote about their nVine service which was an impressive visual community focused on geo located photos by users.

Nokia is continuing their Lifestreaming push with the release of what they are calling their “Linked Internet UI Concept” which aggregates all of your friends online content into one simple interface. The video shows a phone where friends are displayed by thumbnail photos. When you click on one of your friends you then view their “Life” profile which provides an aggregated view of their activity across multiple communities including Twitter and a photo site. They also go into demonstrating content discovery by navigating from one users content to discover relevant content created by others. A search engine is also demonstrated that returns results from your social graph.

Here’s the video they produced to demonstrate the concept

This is how they describe it:

Linked Internet UI Concept understands the content, and links related content using the same navigation method as the Web. The linkage is based on similarity of the content, such as similar service sources, associated contacts, or assigned tags. For example, photos are linked if they are shared or commented by the same person, or taken in the same location. By leveraging the links between related content items, the concept can help people to discover content that they may not be able to find otherwise.

Linked Internet UI Concept identifies “interesting” content by learning the user’s habits. The users are facing high volumes of online content shared by their contacts on various services and applications. They may find some content is very important, but most of it is not. Linked Internet UI Concept prioritizes the content and highlights the items most likely to be important. It does that by learning the users’ habits over time, and by adapting to provide them with personalized views.

Nokia has created a site to provide more details on this concept and you can read more about it here.

Below is a cute little video created by Nokia discussing their nVine service which provides a beautiful geo based visualization of user submitted data from their phones. From your phone you can submit geo tagged photos, videos, and music activity to the service and share it with other users.

Here’s the video

Visiting the site you are presented with a Flash site that displays a map of the world with flags depicting locations where users have created vines. You can zoom into the map at any given location to reveal more vines the closer you go in. You can also view latest vines and even search for vines.

I zoomed into several vines I found in Mexico and came across a few users that had submitted photos and video of a Radiohead concert.

Click image to view site

Click image to view site

I found this to be pretty cool and it got me thinking about how we really haven’t seen much in the way of collaborative geo-tagging on maps as it relates to Lifestreaming. This definitely is an area ripe for some innovation.

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• Tag Clouds for Our Lifestreams « I’m Not Actually a Geek – Great post with thoughts on the benefits of offereing tag clouds for Lifestreams
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