August 28, 2007 • 9:48 AM
The official Google Blog reports on the first year anniversary of the free available WiFi Network in Mountain View, CA the home of Google. The 400+ mesh routers are being used by 15.000 unique users every month that use roughly 300GB each day of network traffic.
Sine I am living in San Francisco I hope that the effort of Google and Earthlink will bring the free WiFi access to the city. To push this initiative forward people living in San Francisco can contact the Board of Supervisors.
Meraki is another project that tried to encourage existing WiFi network owners to open up their network for others. You can sign up and plug in a so called Meraki repeater that configures itself to extend the freely available network. Meraki is backed by Google and Sequoia Capital and has been initially a Ph.D. research project at MIT.
Filed under: Technology , free the net, meraki, wifi, wirless network
August 24, 2007 • 2:08 PM
This subject is a little off topic from this blog but I personally like music and are interested in the subject of DRM. So here we go…
TechCrunch just published an article about Digital Right Management free music available online. All those music lovers out there who want to pay once and have the freedom to use the purchased songs the way they want this article is a good place to start.
Besides DRM free music there are a whole bunch of music blogs out there that make it easy to fill up your music collection with mash ups and other DJ mixes. In addition podcasts are a great way to check out new music or keep track of the latest tracks and developments that are out there.
Here is a list of sited that I visit every now and than to find some new music:
Please feel free to add your favorite music site that offers free and legal downloads of songs, mixes and/or mash-ups.
Filed under: How-To, Open Access / Open Content, WorldWideWeb , digital rights management, drm, mp3, music, music blog, online
