Jason Goodman told me that he sees FON as an organization based on the principle “you scratch my back and I scratch yours”. Today I saw this in action.

These women are writing the FONero promise in order to get a free Fonera. But look how they do it, as our stand at SIMO, Spain´s largest tech fair is a mob scene and there´s nowhere to write, they write on each other´s back. Very FON.

Here. Or here. It rocks.

Comment: What kind of post is this so short, we dont learn anything about gspace!!!

Comment 2: Martin u going to tell us something about gspace or not?

Comment 3: why did u buy gspace?

Comment 4: does Google care about Gspace violating its ToU or do they like Gspace because people take stuff that is with Microsoft and send it to them?

We are back home. Leo, his Mom, his siblings, my mother in law (yes, her as well…) and, in the middle of all this, I remember that I have another child…..FON. So I do what I always do when I want to know what´s happening at FON. I go to the Statcounters that show me sales in the FON shops around the world, and I see the great news that, indeed, Leo was born with a pan bajo el brazo, with a loave of bread under his arm.

Today is shaping up as the day ever for the Movimiento FON. We are growing like crazy all over the planet. Korea, China, Germany, Spain, Italy, and even US, which has been our slowest market so far, is beginning to pick up. So I guess there´s no need for me to go to the office! Leo, I´m staying home….

This has been a weekend of good news for me, personally and professionally. Earlier this weekend, on Friday night, James P. Clark (Chairman of the World Technology Network) and Daniel Sieberg (Host of “Next@CNN TV show), announced in San Francisco that FON has won the award in the category “Communications Technology – Corporate”. The World Technology Award goes each year to the most innovative people and organizations in the science and technology world.

Given that my son Leo was born I could not be there personally to represent FON, but we are very proud at FON to receive this distinction that goes to all the people who are working so hard every day to make FON the largest WiFi network in the world by far!

We bought Gspace from Rahul Jonna, its developer. But because of Leo´s birth, I don´t have time to blog the whole story so I communicated with Om Malik who, after congratulating me for the birth of my forth child (and enquiring if I was on my way to build a sports team;), kindly volunteer to blog the story.

Thanks Om for sharing the story of our purchase and our plans to integrate Gspace with the FON Liberator with the blogging community.

Even though FON is less than a year old, we have offices in China, Korea, Japan, Netherlands, France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and US. We also deliver our Foneras in all of the EU. But if you live in a country where we cannot ship Foneras to, we recommend that either you buy one and have it shipped to a friend in a country where we can ship to, or if you or a friend show up in person to a FON office anywhere in the world and simply show your passport and a ticket that proves that you are going to a destination that we can´t ship to. We will trust you as a FONero and give you 3 Foneras for free to take to your country.

Example, you are a Chilean who travels to San Francisco, you are a Malaysian in Hong Kong, you are a Senegalese in Paris, an Argentine in Madrid, etc. Just come to our offices and you will get up to 3 Foneras to take with you back home and start spreading the FON Movement. If you have any questions about this promo pls write to Nina. We have already implemented this with Latin Americans who come to Madrid.

Yesterday we launched in Hong Kong. First my apologies to the people of Hong Kong. I am really sorry I was not there for the FON party, but my wife is due any moment now and my fourth child should be born this week, so I could not attend. I hope you understand.

Second, I want to congratulate Yat Siu and his team. Guys you did an AMAZING job. Bravo! What follows are links to pictures of the event and news coverage. If you have any more links, please send them to me and I will publish them.
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