Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Wi-Fi with a pint Wi-Fi with a pint. By years end according to a commercial plan to be presented on Wednesday in London, a total of 3,000 British pubs will form the backbone of what could become the first nationwide Wi-Fi network in Europe with a goal of up to 21,000 sites projected. Most existing Wi-Fi hot spots in Europe are in public places like airports or hotels and are aimed at travellers. Some Wi-Fi hot spots are free, and others charge. But coverage will spread from Norway's harbours to medieval Spanish towns, and International Data Corp., a technology consultancy, predicts that the number of European hot spots will grow to 32,500 by 2007.But is it a viable business?Even Intel admits that no one knows how popular the service will really be or which business model will prove profitable. "We are living in the dark ages of mobile data," said Claus Bjornsten, Intel's European Business Development manager for the mobile platforms group. Eager to try Wi-Fi? Head to a pub [Smart Mobs] 6:20:12 AM  comment []       Dynamics of a Blogsphere Story. Very interesting take on the physics of memes in blogspace.  Especially the segmentation of types of posts: Lengthy opinion and molding of a topic around between three to fifteen links with one of those links the instigator of the story; Vote post where the blogger agrees or disagrees with a post on another site; Reaction post where a blogger provide her/his personal reaction to a single post on another site; Summation post where the blogger provide a summary of various blogs and perspectives of where a blog story has got to by now. Here's some exerpts of the conculsions: Rarely can an individual blogger get a story going. The best blog stories are those that are branded with a word or phrase that is highly identifiable with that story. The stories that get going are not usually subject specific blogs but stories that cut across all interests of the blogging community. While individuals offer their opinions, it is usual that a blogging story cannot be orchestrated by an individual. ...blogs cannot be read in isolation from each other. Blog stories are understood and appreciated in aggregate and not in isolation. On the other hand, mainstream media stories tend to be read in isolation rather than read and compared. [Microdoc News offered a Summation --> Doc contributed a Vote --> I posted a Reaction that this is great work]  [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] 6:10:59 AM  comment []       Dan Gillmor asked Google Dan Gillmor asked Google co-founder Sergey Brin if there were plans to segregate weblog content from the main search engine. Answer? No plans. [The Scobleizer Weblog] 5:39:26 AM  comment []

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