Firefox: Delicious Bookmarks, Autopager, Greasemonkey, FoxClocks

Chrome: Google Voice, Google Mail

You really can't go wrong with the Philippines. Culture wise the Philippines is the closest to western culture among the asian countries.

Accent wise we don't have a funny accent :) you won't have trouble understanding our english. Our alphabet is very similar to the US.

Talent wise - we have a lot of great coders, I agree with the post, the technique is have a higher than average compensation for developers so you can lure them out.

Disclaimer: I'm a Filipino.

Yes, one would immediately think that the items he listed are somehow all true at large companies.

There's good potential for these kinds of app, especially now in the age of cloud computing.

I agree. It could just be another novelty app.