Imagine opening your laptop computer in a neighborhood wireless Internet café and firing up a Web browser. Instead of your usual startup page, imagine this on your screen:
That's the core of Project PlaceSite. It introduces a new way of using wireless networks -- to create a local information service by, for and about people who are in the same café together.
We're rolling it out in Berkeley in a few weeks. Details: www.placesite.com.
Please let us know what you think. And come out and take part!
Posted by sean at March 13, 2005 04:22 PM | TrackBack (0)Cool. We're doing the same kinda thing up in Montreal. We developped some open-source software to do the same location/community based stuff. check it out at http://www.ilesansfil.org/wiki/WiFiDog
It's also greatly inspired by the "third place" concept.
It is now running our 30 hotspots. You can check out the central server in action at http://auth.ilesansfil.org
cheers,
mike
This is faboo. Social software at its best :)
Posted by: courtney on March 16, 2005 10:08 AMtwo stories in this post about social software over limited geographical area.
http://i.never.nu/article/2342/im-unoriginal
Posted by: mtl3p on March 20, 2005 06:14 PMWe're doing something similiar in Seattle with a local cafe on the 'Ave - we're using a CMS and modding it to fit the owners desires, and gathering the data from that. Cool stuff.
Posted by: CA on April 7, 2005 09:41 PM