You might not like services like Foursquare, Gowalla or the even older Brightkite and think they don’t make any sense at all. Well, let’s just say there are still people out there who don’t think Twitter makes any sense at all. Fine by me. I’m not going to debate this over here. People probably thought the same when the telephone was invented. Just think about that strange new device in your home that could ring anytime if someone just dialed your number. Whoa!?

Anyway, there’s currently a fight going on between these contenders. The obvious problem: which service do I use to update my location and let my friends know where I am? Some of my friends only use Gowalla, some exclusively use Foursquare – and then there’s this one person who uses Brightkite. Do you really want to spend minutes launching one app after the other to update your location? I don’t.

Well, there’s a way out. It’s called check.in, developed by the guys at Brightkite. Currently it’s in beta and you have to apply for an invite. It’s been a while since I signed up for it and got one just today. Thanks to the person at Brightkite, you know who you are. :-) So this is by no means a review, just a quick preview of what it looks like.
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Some of you might know the company Palm. Either because of their PDA’s, when they were still around, or their Treo phones. The latter weren’t really big in Europe. I can only remember one person who actually had a Palm Treo. Palm went from putting their own OS on their device to using Windows Mobile on their more recent models. At CES they came full circle and presented a device that was really necessary for Palm: the Palm Pre with its own operating system calles Web OS.

Until last weeks keynote actually took place most of us weren’t quite sure on how and if Palm would make the turn around. This event was going to be the all or nothing keynote from them. And as far as it looks today, the event turned out to be “all”. Most reactions on the web and from the press were positive.
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