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 [The Hallway] The way it works is that if you are signed in to it and you find an open WiFi network, Plazes will let you give a little description of it, add a Flickr photo associated with the location and leave your name as the person who 'discovered' it. You get points for discovering more locations, which is the motivator for people to go find new networks.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

 [Boingboing.net] Boing Boing: March 2005: My cow-orker Wendy Seltzer reports on a NYT story that credulously quotes a parade of coppers complaining that open WiFi is a tool for criminals to make anonymous mischief, while totally missing the irony that the cops they spoke to would only communicate on condition of anonymity. Yo, NYT: if you don't like anonymous speech, relocate to some country without a First Amendment!

 [Networkingsmallbusiness.com] Compendium archives: Wireless Unleashed is a group Weblog (by "Stupid Networks" guru David Isenberg, wireless doyen Kevin Werbach, former AT&T Labs mucky-muck Andrew Odlyzko and NYU Internet don Clay Shirkey) devoted to opening up the low-frequency spectrum to new applications and networks: "Opening up wireless capacity...

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Wifi, Wireless Networking News

Posted at July 02, 2005 09:14 AM