I thought this might be interesting to some GW's. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Lenczner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 1, 2006 2:56 PM Subject: new blog on location portals To: Volontaires Ile sans Fil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, WiFiDog Captive Portal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Discussion list for wirelesstoronto." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] Cc: Sascha Meinrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sean Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jo Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Saul Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michelle Kasprzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, marct <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anne Galloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Longford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello and sorry for the cross-postings. I've been working with Ile Sans Fil and our FOSS project WifiDog for 3 years now. Our goal was always to use our wireless infrastructure to support local communities *beyond* getting them access to the internet. Transforming the captive portal into a location portal always was a large part of that achieving that goal. There's been some great work since then - notably Jo Walsh's work for WirelessLondon and Sean Savages PlaceSite, as well as Wireless Toronto's application of WifiDog - but there is a lot more potential in this particular user interaction. I've just started a blog devoted to the subject of location portals - how to build them, how to intelligently discuss and criticize them. Over the next couple of months I'll be reviewing the existing applications and visions as well as asking some of the people working in this area to share their thoughts - either in one-off's or as permanent guest-bloggers. I look forward to discussing these questions with those of you who are interested. I think some more attention and collaboration on this specific question can have an important impact on the CWN movement, as well as simply improving another worthwhile tool for mobile (and remote) users. http://www.locationportals.net michael lenczner _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
