I just booked flights to San Francisco and Seattle, leaving on Friday. Ulla is going to launch the Thinglink beta at Maker Faire on Saturday. Coolio!

Ulla booked us a room at this wacky hotel in San Francisco for the weekend. I don’t know where we’ll stay after that. On May 5th we’ll go to Seattle and attend MSR’s Social Computing Symposium.

I have very little planned so let me know if you want to meet up to talk biz, go skateboarding, debate social theory or just hang out in the Bay Area next week or the following week.

I did something that sounds completely nuts. I resigned from my position at Nokia Multimedia after just six weeks. That so because it turned out unfeasible to do what I consider sensible there. Better to acknowledge it in good spirit. There are some good people there and we remain friends.

Guess it’s time to try and make meaning.

Ulla and I will run an introductory course on Web 2.0 and recommendation-based markets at the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki on Friday. The course is for anyone who is wondering how the Web might affect the design and marketing of their product or service. It will probably benefit designers, consultants, marketers, and general managers across a wide range of industries. The course fee is 265 euros. The language will be Finnish. There are still a few places left – sign up here.