It was soo nice to be back in silicon valley. After I moved to Nokia Devices from Nokia Research Center, I hadn't been there. I managed to meet some old NRC colleagues, plus some new ones from Forum Nokia.

Perhaps the most obvious souvenir from the Web 2.0 expo and conference was that everyone seem to agree that mobile is the next wave in web 2.0, internet is going mobile and mobiles are going internet. But... not many companies actually do much about it. Nokia was of course there with two expo stands, one for Nokia and the other for S60 software, Yahoo's CTO talked about their mobile solutions, Mozilla talked about their mobile browser but that was about it.

Google had different people manning their booth every day, and every day I would go there and ask if they could tell me something about Android. They couldn't. Microsoft had a big stand, but very little - if anything - on Windows mobile, or Silverlight offering for mobile. I was also hoping to see more offering on open source based sw, but that too was quite limited. Many small companies presented their solution for some unique problem, a lot of server hosting and browser based applications but nothing wow.

The nicest part of conference presentations was not so much the Yahoo's and Microsofts, but the Launch Padwhere startups present their cases to VC's. The best ideas always seem to come outside of the large corporations.

The event featured dozens of official and less official web 2.0 discussion forums, tools, online boards etc. I don't know about you, but I would actually value a smaller number of forums where people could concentrate on continuing threads of discussions, as opposed to the "web 2.0" way of doing it that you need to constantly be on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, the "it" blogs, your corporate blogs, etc. 

At the risk of sounding too S60'ish, I'm gonna give the best solution of Web 2.0 to our very own S60 truck delivering beer, steered with a S60 mobile phone.