“Veni, Vidi,Veci”- Greek rendition of Julius Ceasar-47 BC [translating to 'I came, I saw, I
conquered']
“Vanthen, Vazhanginen, Vilaydinen”- Tamil rendition of Kartik
Kannan -2013 AD [roughly translated to I Flew, I saw, I tweeted]
As soon as I landed in London, I navigated my way to Covent
Guarden through the Piccadily line, from London Heathrow’s terminal 3 with
NOKIA’s HERE MAPS, on my Windows Phone. I held my breath, swallowed some
saliva, and gasped for breath! The Nokia team at SMW2013 was waiting for me at
the venue, and handed me out a Nokia Lumia 1020 to cover the event!
I was live tweeting some of the thoughts by the speakers, and
recorded a HD video of his demo, to upload
on youtube, passing on the video link on social networks. The social media guy with
his 1 alphanumeric phone, next to me ran out of battery. Ah! Life without
wireless charging- so tough!, I use it on the Lumia 1020, which enables me to
move around outside my seat and take the video of the session, without having
to worry about plugging the device to charge. Talk about Technology to the smart
aleck from Rajnikant land J
Mark Zuckerberg was next! He spoke about how one can use
internet in the air, without a data connection on the Nokia Lumia 1220, which will be powering his internet.org
dreams
Justin Timberlake, who acted as “Mark Zuckerberg’s mentor”
in the movie –“Social Network”, also spoke about how to use social media, to
pick up stakes in ailing social networks. He gave a few wonderful tidbits, but
was worried whether he had said too much in a public forum. He immediately took
a registration to attend the “Speak Now, Regret Later” to seek his doubts on
the legal side of Social Media!
The best part was recording a video of Youtube’s founder
speaking on “The Future of Video” and
uploading to Youtube J.
From Covent Garden, we proceeded to our hotel near
Gloucester Road, and I used the CITY LENS feature to find me a good pub to
drown myself in a few beers at 8 pm(, and it pointed me to head to the ‘Bavarian
Beer House’ at London Tower Hill. A few
beers later, I suddenly woke up to see my office laptop around, and my mobile
alarm buzzing! Geeeez!
“#I Slept, #I Drank, #I
Dreamt”…..
Help me convert that
that to
“#I Came(to London for
SMW2013), I Saw(With Nokia 1020’s lenses), I tweeted ( at SMW2013)
