study sponsored by the WiFi alliance reveals the following:
WiFi and college choice

90% of college students say Wi-Fi access is as essential to education as classrooms and computers
57% say they wouldn’t go to a college that doesn’t have free Wi-Fi
79% say that without Wi-Fi access, college would be a lot harder
60% agree that widely available Wi-Fi [...]

Posted April 16, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: connectivity, education, networks, social software, wifi. Be the first one.

I’m flying Virgin America from BOS to SFO, and apparently all their planes on that route offer in-flight internet via Gogo. $12.95 buys 3Mbps down and 300Kbps up (at least early on when nobody else seemed to be using it). I can get my iPhone online for only 8 bucks, but as far as [...]

Posted March 11, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: connectivity, ichat, in-flight, internet, Virgin America, wifi. Be the first one.

Now that I’ve moved I’ve finally set up my Fonera. I had hoped to offer a story about the process, but it was so simple I can’t really say much more than “I plugged it in, I registered it, it worked.”
The Fonera is a tiny little router/WiFi access point that looks worlds better than the [...]

Posted April 11, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: connectivity, crowdsourcing, fon, Fonera, Fonero, grass roots networking, mass, network, wifi, wireless. 3 Comments.

Ross Mayfield says Web 2.0 is “made of people.” Tim O’Reilly tells us it’s about participation. And to Marc Canter, it’s the connectivity.
More to come…

tags: connectivity, marc canter, participation, people, ross mayfield, social networking, tim o’reilly, tim oreilly, web 2.0, web 20, web20

Posted October 24, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: connectivity, marc canter, participation, people, ross mayfield, social networking, tim o'reilly, web 2.0, web20. 2 Comments.