nonsmokingarea.com

fbCal is a godsend for those who tend to forget birthdays (like me) and rarely log into Facebook anymore (like me) [even when I did, I never really noticed the upcoming birthdays on the homepage anyway]. fbCal (a Facebook-app) generates RSS-/iCalendar-feeds for your friends’ birthdays & your upcoming events on FB, which you then can pipe into Google Calendar, iCal etc. but don’t cry if you still forget your best friends birthday, maybe he/she hasn’t made this data available to you on FB at all…

Steve Rubel (yes, Edelman, that is) asks the same question I did (implicitly) few days ago: how is Twitter going to cope with that SMS-bills? I really have no idea, but Rubel claims that “In the good ol’ United States of America, the receiver pays the SMS bill”. the comments on that post seem to be quite indifferent, but I guess the “recveiver” means the receiving network, not the individual customer? (at least from a ‘european’ standpoint, there’s no way the receiver is to bear the cost). some yanks wanting to comment? (please!!!) how are kick-ass services like Google Calendar’s SMS-reminders (I - thankfully - receive at least two each day) not going to be loss-leaders?

anyway, It’s probably obvious, that merging web2 with ‘oldschool’ mobile services is the thing to do right now.

connecting the off- with the online, Spanning Sync promises bidirectional synchronisation between (muliple instances of) Apple iCal and Google Calendar. utilizing iSync, the application also syncs up mobilephones and iPods. the downside? after getting you hooked during the 15days free trial, Spanning Sync costs 65 USD once or 25 USD a year, which seems quite a lot for a little sync-app (via R/WW).