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I attended the FON Freedom Friday in San Francisco on 28 October and got my free router. The idea is if everyone opens up his or her Wi-Fi connection, we can have almost citywide Wi-Fi access.
Read more on my Muniwireless blog.

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Congratulations to Ted Rheingold and the folks at Dogster for putting on a great event last night. Their “300,000 Dogs and Cats” party was so much fun although there were more humans than dogs (no cats though). It was an opportunity for me to see my Bay Area friends again: Molly Ditmore, Scott Rafer, Mary [...]

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They’re not beaming people to other planets yet, but scientists are making a lot of progress with teleportation. CNN reports:
Beaming people in “Star Trek” fashion is still in the realms of science fiction, but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality. Until now scientists [...]

Rodrigo interviewed me while we were waiting to catch the tram to the Picnic 06 venue (Westergasfabriek) in Amsterdam. The topic: auctioning off speaking slots. I am amazed at the quality of this video clip and how easy it was for him to record it. Click here to see the clip.

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I just discovered two places to download video (legally): vodeo.tv and francetvod.fr. Both are French language sites and have so many videos available on a great variety of topics: sports, current events, science, gastronomy, travel, etc. And you can pay via Paypal (micro payments — many videos are only 1.99 EUR). The cooking videos are [...]

Travelpost.com has the most comprehensive guide to free and paid wireless access in US airports. To see the guide, click here (link from Glenn Fleishman).
Airport Wi-Fi access is one of my pet peeves. Last week in San Francisco, I logged onto my T-Mobile Wi-Fi service, but when I got to Logan Airport, surely one of [...]