Silicon Valley- The center of the tech universe? Duh!

Loic Lemuer from Seesmic was interviewed about his move from France to the San Francisco to start his 5th company. He says some interesting things but comes up with a fairly obvious conclusion. If you want to be in the web 2.0 social networking/computing business you need to be here in the valley or close to it.

From the files of “idiotic phone messages”

This is the BEST phone message ever. Well maybe not ever, but it is pretty funny

Twebinar… Really?

Don’t know quite what to say about this one. The first word that comes to my mind is nosebleed, I dunno.

http://www.twebinar.com/

and what the twitteratti are saying about it

http://summize.com/search?q=twebinar

Nokia Buys Symbian OS an makes it open source

This is pretty interesting news. In the mobile “smart” phone OS race you have a few biggies and Symbian is probably one of the more mature platforms with all sorts of support. With Google’s Android and OpenMoco out there now and Symbian just now becoming open source it can really give Apple a run for their money with the iPhone. I think this is good news for us, more comptetition in the handset OS biz means more standard features like Java, Flash, and other multi media support.

Important link for website testers

This is great, in my bookmarks now
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/#

remote/mulitple computer or “cloud” computing links

Evernote
Local application and web interface for note taking. Web app allows synching of different computers or can be used between a computer and mobile device (iPhone or WM, or really anything with a browser)

Remember the Milk
This is more task based and has much more interaction with mobile devices like Blackberry and has Twitter and Gmail tie ins.

Fox Marks
Allows you to synch all your various computers to have the same bookmarks in firefox

Dot Mac
allows mac users to synch up multiple machines for contacts, calendars, Mail, computer settings, remote backup of up to 10GB of data and lots more. Only available to Mac users though

Box dot net
They allow remote storage and collaboration. I used to have an account but haven’t used it in a while. Now they have some newer functions so I am much more interested to give it a try.

I also use my company’s webmail when I can but I will also just make sure to leave all my messages on the server so I can (if I want to) run a local mail client but then be able to download messages to all of my machines locally.

Whether you have mulitple computers or you just want to enable yourself to use the cloud more often for your nomadic life you now have choices.

Interesting Authoring Tools

Ok, short and sweet. Check out Adobe Thermo http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Thermo . Flex and Flash design and development in a GUI. Looks neat.

Also SprooutBuilder? http://sproutbuilder.com/ seems like a cool web tool for creating quick integrated flash interfaces for websites.