An open-source Linux client for Skype is going to be important. Skype in Ubuntu, Skype on your TV, Skype in your car, Skype in your doorbell, Skype in business cards.

All that map, street-view, traffic, business etc. data Google has been amassing just became useful in your car with an Android device. Going to be painful for Garmin and TomTom. They may be superior but Google’s take will be Good Enough for many, many people. And you can build on it any way you want.

Since my Palm Pre won’t sync with iTunes on my Mac I’ve had to find an alternative. You can drag and drop music files in USB mode which actually works pretty well. But it isn’t real synchronisation. Salling Media Sync does a good job. Free or you can pay for a version that speeds the sync up.

Sunday Business Post covers the Munster Express iPhone app. that my team at the TSSG put together. I don’t remember there being any technical glitches at launch though. It is a simple app. and worked fine from the start.

In-App purchasing for iPhone/iTouch apps is now available to free apps. Good move.

The “MiniMap” in the Sublime Text text-editor looks very useful. TextMate, lets have that please.

Layar augmented reality browser for the iPhone 3GS (compass needed) is in the App Store now. Works quite well even for a low-density area like Waterford, Ireland.

Three good new iPhone apps today; classic adventure game Beneath a Steel Sky, email intelligence Gist and Jamie Oliver’s 20 Minute Meals.

I wish there was a better way of following and unfollowing people in Echofon and Tweetie. Echofon takes three clicks and a good few seconds waiting for the follow status to be checked. I realise it takes an extra call to the Twitter API. Maybe, in Echofon, when I view an account in the browser drawer it does the check then and has a dedicated follow/unfollow button rather than the drop-down menu. Anything to make following and unfollowing seamless, quick and easy.

MockApp, iPhone mockup tool, is “TweetWare” though ViralWare might be a more apt (though dangerous) description. You pay for it by either tweeting, blogging or Digging the app. Clever way to spread the word.