Wireless Toronto Meet-up
It’s wonderful to see Wireless Toronto getting busy again after a quiet year. There were good ideas from a variety of people out at last night’s open meeting. With Toronto Hydro’s One Zone record being spotty and close to being sold off, the need for community wi-fi is still strong. Dory and I met to discuss Wireless Toronto Portal Page ideas which include profiling neighborhoods using RSS feeds from flickr, map mashups, Torontoist, Blog.TO, craiglist’s miss connections, garage sales, other events, and city councilor websites. Other ideas included profiling local people or things, featuring guest curator or artist, and social tools such as chat, or a wall. More than a few career announcements mentioned in the pub after too.
Related Economist Article (Apr 10th 2008): Nomads at last “Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places—and each other”.
