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20 August '06 - 04:47

When you have to speak German at the caltrain station ...

Plazes founders Felix and Stefan are in the Valley at the moment (I already saw it in their plazes), and Felix has posted "How to know you´re in the heart of the digital economy".

# When the dishwasher at the coffee shop is being asked by the waitress to check the DHCP settings.
[...]
# When you have to speak German discussing your new ideas at the trainstation.

Yes, the Coupa Cafe is great and a reason alone to prefer Palo Alto for a stay.

But I think Felix carelessly underestimates the amount of people in the Valley speaking or at least being able to understand German! No kidding. :)

And: Now that Plazes has published the mobile client I need to look out for a new mobile phone. Which will work in the US and Europe, as well as have a nice big screen and an onscreen keyboard. I dont need little tiny keyboards with that thing; I am able to type blindly and do get annoyed with those tiny ones, I am much faster "typing with a stylo on the screen". If I would be to type longer texts, I would get myself an external keyboard.

Any suggestions? As those stupid providers are so anxious to put wifi into the phones, I might as well go for a decent palm instead and keep the mobile phone I have at the moment. (Tip for those providers: I do not use you instead if I have no wifi available. I do not use it at all. Make my phone with Wifi and I will use it so much more that I might be tempted to use your services if wifi is not available.)

And if it would work with the plazes mobile client, that might be cool as well too. I need to get more karma points. ;)

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