Rose Cantine

Danah Boyd wrote a blog post recently about how MySpace has turned into a giant ad-filled mess. She hopes that soon-to-be launched Blyk, pan-European free mobile phone operator (funded by advertising) for 16-24 year olds, will figure out how to do marketing without alienating people:
I believe that teenagers are the reason that mobile will [...]

I’ve been using the Nokia N80 (Internet edition) multimedia phone for the past two weeks and I love it.

It is very small (95.4 mm x 50 mm x 26 mm) and it has Wi-Fi, which I need desperately after receiving an unpleasant surprise in the form of a 250 EUR bill from my mobile provider, [...]

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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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 [...]

I’m turning 47 this week, and as my friend, mentor, former client and now “Junior” Advisor to my company, as well as corporate party band leader, Ray McKewon-co-founder (retired) of Accredited Home Lenders likes to say “life is good.” I’ve taken it one step further and have proclaimed that Life, Is Very Very Good for [...]

This is the moment I have been dreading for a long time, the day when someone requires me to appear on a video webinar. So I went down to the Apple store today and got an iSight webcam. It was very easy to install and within minutes, there I was on iChat video and Sightspeed. [...]