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A new age of information technology has just begun. Nokia released its Mobile Web Server product on 19th June.

Mobile Web Server is a application/service for mobile phones. You can run a mobile web server software in Nokia Series 60 mobile phones. Others can connect to your mobile phone and browse around in items you wish to share.

Some use cases that pop up my mind are

• Sharing photos in Internet instantly they are taken with your camera phone
  
• Sharing your calender with your colleagues
• Browse your vital contact information if you have forgot your phone somewhere
• Remote control your phone camera
• etc.

I believe we cannot yet comprehend all the possibilites with our limited PC - web server mindset. By combining GPS, social networking, accelerometers and service mash ups something exist beyond imagination.

Visit at my mobile webserver in address http://moo.mymobilesite.net. All content is served directly from my mobile phone. I have fixed 128 kbit/s 3G connection so it might be a bit slow. However, WiMax & co. are waiting behind the door, so connection speed problems will be gone in few years.

The best thing is that Nokia offers free HTTP proxy traffic and DNS name for every registered mobile phone. Currently, mobile operators don't assign Internet IP address for their  connections. This seriously limits the Internet-ability of mobile phones. Nokia's proxy server solves the problem by keeping a HTTPS tunnel open from Nokia managed Internet server to your mobile phone.

Also, the mobile web server is based on Apache and Python technologies. Python is a very agile programming language and creating new hacks is easy as changing the diapers. I think I am going to implement something kinky, just to see how cool it can be.

FTW Nokia!