Comments on: Thank you Google and Yahoo for the Free WiFi http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/thank-you-google-and-yahoo-for-the-free-wifi.html Blog of an entrepreneur Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: steven http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/thank-you-google-and-yahoo-for-the-free-wifi.html#comment-264070 steven Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:28:38 +0000 http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/?p=3868#comment-264070 Not only Google & Yahoo are currently sponsoring Premium Wifi hotspots untill january...also Microsoft is doing it to promote their "Bing" search engine? -> http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Jiwire-1073349.html Isn't it a bit sad that the value of a community driven wifi network which doesn't operate on premium locations equals 0 and thus there is no google/yahoo/microsoft interested in buying "advertisement"-space on the Fon Captive portals (there are 700.000 of them)... In the past I've seen some FON experiments with country-advertisements for social networks (italy, germany, ...) and eg the Sony Mylo advertisement (globally) although not sold globally... It would be great if FON could finally find a "premium" partner in Europe... Have you tried "gasoline" stations? they all have a "shop"...don't tell me they don't have broadband connections? Truck drivers will be very happy because 3G roaming is deadly :-) Not only Google & Yahoo are currently sponsoring Premium Wifi hotspots untill january…also Microsoft is doing it to promote their “Bing” search engine?
-> http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Jiwire-1073349.html

Isn’t it a bit sad that the value of a community driven wifi network which doesn’t operate on premium locations equals 0 and thus there is no google/yahoo/microsoft interested in buying “advertisement”-space on the Fon Captive portals (there are 700.000 of them)…

In the past I’ve seen some FON experiments with country-advertisements for social networks (italy, germany, …) and eg the Sony Mylo advertisement (globally) although not sold globally…

It would be great if FON could finally find a “premium” partner in Europe… Have you tried “gasoline” stations? they all have a “shop”…don’t tell me they don’t have broadband connections? Truck drivers will be very happy because 3G roaming is deadly :-)

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