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AT&T Mobile Broadband and Silver Lining Networks - Portable WiFi Hot Spot Ads!

Last week Silver Lining tested a WiFi Hot Spot at the annual Country Classic Horse Show at the Hunter Creek Equestrian Center in Wilsonville, Oregon. The ad supported WiFI was completely powered by mobile broadband.

The network's broadband connection was supplied via the AT&T 3G network and their Sierra Wireless AirCard 881 plugged into a Linksys WRT54G-3G router.

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Google Street View is Awe Inspiring

I know there is a massive controversy around Google Street View.  I just truly discovered Google Street View while looking at a Google map, and subsequently clicking "Street View" and being able to zoom right down to a guy smoking a cigarette downtown...

Check out this dude smoking a cigarette down at SW 21st and Yamhill:

The $50 Ad Supported Free WiFi Router - Free WiFI For Your Neighbors and $1 CPM For You

What can you do about your neighbor stealing your WiFi?  You can do cool geeky things like serving the page upside down, or redirecting to a site they won't necessarily enjoy :)  Or you can make money off of them.  And get them to foot the bill for your connection.

You can purchase a $50 Linksys router from Silver Lining Networks and after signing up on their website, and registering your router, you will immediately start to get paid for ad impressions on your own network.

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Why the San Francisco Municipal WiFi project deal failed

Fred Moyer (Silver Lining Networks) analyzes why the San Francisco municipal wifi project failed:

"If you haven't yet heard the news, the much touted project to provide wireless internet access for the city of San Francisco dissolved last week when Earthlink backed out of the contract. This comes at the same time as Earthlink announced a cut of 900 jobs. The two events are almost certainly related, but I think that someone up high at Earthlink saw that they were slated to become committed to footing the bill for a massive infrastructure deployment for the wireless network, and that they might be looking at a repeat of what happened to the big telco companies around 1999-2001."

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A Love Song To Public Transportation

Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams and his staff are really something special.  This cool video featured on his website right now is a great example of the countless things they do for their constituents and our city.  It's a video by Good Magazine of a local songwriter performing an impromptu version of his 'Love Song To Public Transportation" on the OHSU Tram above Portland, Oregon.

I had the honor and pleasure of working with Jesse Beason in Sam's office to create Sam's first blog a couple years back, and it was voted "Best Blog" in Portland by the major alternative weekly, Willamette Week.

Journal about WiFi in Portland OR

I just stumbled upon my first look at the MetroFi WiFi network currently launching in Portland OR.  I am running iStumbler and sitting in the Governor Hotel at Alder and SW 11th Ave.

At least on my Mac I cant seem to connect to the Free or Premium service yet - using either the OS X connection tool or iStumbler's 'join' function.  Anyone else connected to this service yet?

Net Nuetrality - Save the Internet

This is a great mashup video spot about Net nuetrality.  I was turned onto this by Hans.  Check out recent news items regarding Net Nuetrality.  Read an in-depth article By Edward Felton on the Nuts and Bolts of Net Neutrality (pdf).

About Network Neutrality
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(also "net neutrality," and, more rarely, "internet neutrality") is a principle of computer networks design. It is variously defined in a number of similar/related ways:

1. The satisfaction of all network application needs fairly. Any particular internet host, protocol or application should not receive preferential treatment, except to ensure correct operation of the network or protocol. A carrier's network that disfavors certain websites, protocols like Voip or multimedia services, for example, would be non-neutral.
2. Alternately, permitting the networking of all non-harmful devices, with open access carriage of packets.
3. Regulations that would attempt to legislate carriers to enforce neutrality on their networks. Anti-network neutrality regulations would enable a tiered internet.

     

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We Feel Fine (.org)

From the Willamette Week
Wed. 10-12-06

WeFeelFine.org, online since May, has been accumulating millions of emotions from blogs around the world since August 2005.

Designed by Brooklyn artist Jonathan Harris and Bay Area Google guru Sepander Kamvar, the WeFeelFine project searches the Net every few minutes for iterations of the ubiquitous online diary phrase "I feel." 

When the site finds an emotion, it records an entire sentence and then catalogs the feeling by type.  If the sentence reads as a caption to a photograph, the picture is also taken into the system. Overall, the site uploads an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 new emotions from six continents per day.

Due to the open platform of blogs, WeFeelFine.org is able to extract a large amount of amount of demograhic information about its authors.  Automatically, the site's program organizes the data it gleans into a particle system.  As soon as a viewer accesses the site, a deluge of dots jitterbugs across the computer screen.  The color, shape and size of each confetti-colored particle indicates what type of emotion is inside it.

A particle can be opened and explored by clicking on it - the unique feeling of an individual and a link to the blog source are thus revealed.  This project is impressive, and this site is unique and gets a hold of you if you click around a bit and figure it out.

Check out this Willy Week story about WeFeelFine.org. I dont think you will soon forget it if you do.