Moscone West, the site of Google I/O 2010. Some things that it may be useful to know:

• The official hash tag is #io2010

• The keynotes will be live-blogged all over the place (thus, not here) and also live-streamed on YouTube.

I'll be glued to YouTube this evening.

Of course, like every other night, Eircom DSL will go to shit at 7pm, just as it starts getting interesting.

Its initial rollout is through 50 mobile operators in 45 countries, mostly developing countries. This is an exciting outreach to frequently neglected and mobile-dependent information cultures around the world.

Finally the phrase "Orkut is very big in Brazil" will start to fade away.

This is a genius move. Pity Ireland is not included for all those hundreds of thousands of PAYG phone owners who don't have data plans.

Nokia Oyj has chosen Anssi Vanjoki, an outspoken executive who produced its last hit smartphone three years ago, to bring back the buzz.

What did I say only 3 months ago?

http://conoroneill.net/i-could-honestly-listen-to-anssi-vanjoki-spea

There is hope for Nokia yet.

Oh yeah, and while hes taking your money and page views, hes
convincing everyone that they dont need their own customers
information: Just use Facebook Connect!

A typically OTT post from Jason but some important points in the hyperbole.

We're massive fans of Facebook Connect and Twitter OAuth, not as replacements for businesses owning their data and its context, but as adjuncts, as marketing tools.

Whether you are a business or an individual, Social Networks should be where you send _copies_ of things to. Own your pictures, opinions, reviews, poems, videos and memories. Share them using these tools.

The latest demo video of Adobes Flash 10.1 tool for Android seems to be taking place on a Nexus One loaded with an ALIEN version of Android which pretty much has to be the latest FroYo Android 2.2 update were expecting to arrive very soon.

This is a damned impressive demo.

I only discovered the HTC Desire already has Flash Video the other day on the BBC site. Great to be able to zoom in on all the videos there, particularly the news ones.

1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.

Well that and my reaction to a bunch of po-faced secular-puritan twits getting an ad banned.

Over 40 Million check-ins why isnt your business there?

Great post by Pat about Foursquare, have a read.

I think I did the first 4SQ check-in in Ireland (cos I’m a geek rather than cos I’m with-it).

I’m a huge fan of the 4SQ concept and bang the drum about it but TBH I think we’re still a long way from it having any real business impact in Ireland.

Are there any stats on rate of venue addition and rate of check-in in Ireland?

You only have to sit in Coffee Pod in Cork City Centre and look at what is “near me” to see what a wasteland it still is.

In a group of 11 “normal” people (plus me) in Carrick on Shannon last weekend with people carrying a mix of HTC Desire, Nexus One, E72, N97 etc, I was the only one doing any check-ins. I think 2 others even knew what 4SQ was.

In a town with a population of approx 4,000, I’m guessing that @johnnybeirne and @reverbstudios are responsible for a large percentage of the venues and check-ins.

Having said all of that, if I was a Dublin City Centre business with a strong following on Twitter, it’d be the next logical move.

But I think most will wait until Facebook do all of this and jump there instead where the numbers are. 1m users globally for 4SQ vs 1.5m users in Ireland alone on Facebook. And a big number of those FB users accessing it on mobile.

As for Gowalla. Game over already?

UPDATE 1: I hope GEO search on Foursquare (web-site) is broken otherwise it’s a lot worse than I thought. In Greater Cork (population approx 250k), it is listing 50 venues and 25 people. I’ll do more digging to see if I can set a centre and radius on that. Something we have in the LouderVoice Reviews API :-)

UPDATE 2: Whew, GEO search is crap. It’s just returning venues/people with “Cork” in their name. More data as I dig in.