Slightly overshadowed by SEE and by Horizon, the launch of Symbian’s ideas site is proving to be an immediate success. Hats off to Freddie who has led the run into launch, Annabel who has guided the branding elements and not forgetting Mike Sharman over at Firefly who helped us out, early on, with copy.

I feel a little sense of residual ownership there too. I suggested we run an ideagora back in February, along with my colleague Ted Shelton, and guided the requirements capture and design until moving onto the blog.

By the way – this is my last week with the Symbian blog. I’m hoping to finish off the redesign but from afar. As of Friday I go back to my company The Conversation Group and my own blog fiveideas.

What do I mean by success? Well, we’ve had sixteen nineteen twenty twenty three (thirty eight by early afternoon) ideas submitted this morning alone. Take a few examples:

Event mapping from Michael Bergen:

An app to look at my calendar, my GPS, my address book, my recent emails and my social networks, to let me which friends and business contacts are at the same event, or are planning to attend the event.

Pedometer from Richard Jones
Please put a pedometer on the Symbian system. This will help people to keep fit. Look at the Samsung B2700. You will see what I mean.

One comment I want to make about this. We are HAPPY to have one line ideas. We would be happier if you guys could take a moment to work the ideas through into proposals. Not every idea will become a proposal of course but where you have a commitment to it – please provide some kind of cost-benefit estimate. We will return to this again but for now THANKS every one who has submitted or viewed today.

Another aside – hope you have all caught onto the fact that you can vote ideas up and down – and you can comment and discuss.