vc
the fon is on
Filed in archive Entrepreneurship by tj on December 6, 2005
BlogPicture

Martin Varsavsky has a new venture fon.

Rebecca McKinnon writes about it:

"In a nutshell FON creates a system, using P2P principles, by which members can share wifi with one another. The objective, Martin writes, is "turning millions of wifi installations into a unified wifi FON network with a standard interface to accept all kind of wifi enabled devices."

Martin just asked me to join the company's U.S. advisory board. We've got a dream team going, including my friends Ethan Zuckerman, Dan Gillmor, David Weinberger, Joi Ito and Ejovi Nuwere."
Fon shall ideally enable you to use enabled Wifis around the world for free on the basis of credits that you can earn (by enabling access to your Wifi spot) or by buying them. The idea is to enable a network of independent Wifi hotspots around the world with a grass root network of supporters.

Cool idea, enough money from Martin's prior work, great advisory board with wide acceptance in the community - it seems the company can do the trick if it it overcomes the risks (security and failure to reach a critical mass).

If it succeeds you'll have the next Skype here.

Permalink: the fon is on
Tags: fon  skype  entrepreneurship  technology  great  venture+capital  enough+money  idea+enough 
Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/11959
img Addthis img Ask img Blinklist img del.icio.us img Digg img Fark img Facebook img Google img Lycos img Ma.gnolia Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong img Netscape img Netvousz img Newsvine img Reddit img StumbleUpon img Slashdot img Tailrank img Technorati img Wink img Yahoo

Vote for the fon is on:

  • Currently 7.50/10
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
Rating: 7.50 out of 4 vote(s) cast.
 
Subscribe
Share It
RSSrss
See all blog subscribe options
Google google
What is RSS?
Yahoo! yahoo
Addthis Subscribe using any feed reader!
Bloglines Bloglines
Newsletter

TwitterFollow us on Twitter!