Vlog: Bicycles and Berlin Before Maemo Summit

I have some free time before the Maemo Summit gets started so I made a quick video in front of the Reichstag building with my thoughts on Berlin and bicycles. A lot of people here use them and I noticed one major difference from New York City. The bike lanes are mostly on sidewalks… not the roads!

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I’ve been exploring around Berlin Mitte, seeing plenty of historical places accessible just by walking. I didn’t realize until recently how easy it is to use the public transportation here, so I’ll be going further away tomorrow to check other areas.

There’s one thing I absolutely hate here though. Internet access not very easy to get. The hotel I’m staying at and the cell phone carriers charge a lot of money. While a T-mobile dealer sold me a SIM that’s supposed to be 5 Euros/day flat rate, it stopped working only after a few hours! I’ll try to be nice when I see him tomorrow.

The Maemo Summit is just two days away, but there were already some Maemo announcements. Take a look at Internet Tablet Talk’s post on Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5

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  1. sorry this is kind of a off topic question: what video editor are you using for this short clips, and video converter if it doesn’t support mp4 format?

    Mark Guim on 21 September 2008

    I used iMovie on my mac

  2. Hi Mark, did you get my e-mail on the German 3G prepaid thing (Fonic)? Did it help you get along?

    Mark Guim on 24 September 2008

    Yes I did, but the Fonic activation required my bank account details. The page was also in german. I was not comfortable with it so I just opted for the T-mobile 5 EUR dayflat deal.

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