My 2011 Intentions:

:: Join ToastMasters

:: Add strength training to existing exercise routine

::  Organize my bookmarks and RSS feeds

:: Stay fewer nights in home-away-from-home hotel rooms (2010 total: 100 nights)

:: Replace my daily-driver Jeep with a  turbo-diesel VW or Audi

:: Choose an iPad or Android tablet

:: Attend 12 interesting technology conferences, speak or present at least 6 times

:: Master HTML5

:: Drink more water

Chrome is the best browser by far. It benefits from all we have learned from Netscapce, countless IE & Firefox versions, and specialty browsers like Flock.

It seems not many people know about the “Pin Tab” feature. Pin tab lets you choose any open tab and “pin it” to the left with just the site icon showing. Saves space, and makes the tab window permanent. Meaning each time the browser is started the site will open.

I use Pin Tab to keep the half-dozen web apps I use hourly and daily accessible with one click, while not crowding out ohter tabbed windows.

As shown, my email, contacts, calendar, Gdocs, Twitter and AgileZen apps are always available and still leaving lots of room for my other sites I visit ad-hoc throughout the day.

Great post on Techcrunch referring to Mike Maples great talk last week at the Future Of Funding event in Silicon Valley.

View the presentation video for the full experience, but I really like the concept of the “thunder lizard” – the agile, capital efficient start-up, disrupting a market full of “Godzilla” companies. Sonian is one such company, and we’re doing our best to disrupt a market with established over-priced offerings.

Great inspiration for us companies using cloud computing and SaaS: where a small team can solve a big problem for a big audience without having to be the size of a Godzilla.

Betterwall.com sells recycled museum outdoor banners which are great for impressive looking wall-sized office art.

Each banner has a front and back (picture these fastened to street light poles 30 feet in the air).

I like these because if we move offices the wall art travels with us, as opposed to a painted surface.

Lots of great activity at Sonian. I found this British World War 2 “morale” image and used Canvas4life.com to create a large 3×4 foot wall hanging for our office space. The deep, rich red and “reassuring” message appeals to me, and I hope for everyone.

I am writing this post on a trip to SFO at 37,000 feet. Writing “live” in WordPress (clicking Save Draft every few minutes), which got me thinking that I now do all my content creation in web-based apps. Before in-flight WiFi,  I would write in Textmate and then paste into the destination web-app after reconnecting to the Internet. Clunky, too much friction, no content creation. But now it’s different with good connectivity in the air.

Now I use two primary web apps all day long for content creation:

• Google Apps (mail, docs, presentations for all things Sonian)
• WordPress (this blog)

Just a few years ago my setup was this:

• Outlook / Exchange
• Microsoft Word

Where do you create your content?

The proposed SPDY protocol is part of Google’s “Let’s make the web faster” initiative. An admirable goal and needed improvement to help layer on more performance for delivering web pages given our world today is a lot different from 10 years ago when http and web 1.0 began.

What I like about SPDY (SPeeDY) is the layered in approach: Optional, frictionless but a big reward if developers embrace the protocol. Specifically the project goals are:

• Target a 50% reduction in page load time.
• Minimize deployment complexity.
• Avoid the need for any changes to content by website authors.