GoogleWiFi is now available to everybody in Mountain View
Google free Wi-Fi network is now live in Mountain View, CA. SSID is GoogleWiFi, Q&A is here.
USA Today reports on the launch here, Om Malik has the scoop here. Below is the welcome screen you get when connecting to GoogleWiFi for the first time. Gmail username/password are required, user is redirected to google.com/ig after login.
Wired News does a road test of the Google WiFi.
August 19th, 2006 at 1:21 pm #TechCrunch party yesterday - alexmoskalyukblog
[...] Meez - has a solution in the form of 3D avatars, but looks like it has yet to find a problem to solve. Plazes is a real-time social network built on top of WiFi hotspots around the world. Any time you log on to the wireless Web, whether through a hotspot in Starbucks, T-Mobile paid hotspot, or free Google WiFi in Mountain View, Plazes asks you where the hotspot is located and creates a database of unique hotspot IDs and their geographic location. On the site you can see which friends of yours are logged into which hotspot and track where people hang out. [...]