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Don't panic !
cool bars have free wifi
I am writing this from the My
Place café/bar/fashion furniture shop in Zürich. It has excellent
music, good beer and fashion furniture. If you like the chair you sit on,
the table next to you, or any of the furniture around you, you can buy it
when you leave. Since the beer is not free, you end up paying for
something anyway, so it's just clever of them to
incorporate the cost of the wifi (which is less that a cent per customer
anyway) into the drink.
Now all we need is a good ontology to describe businesses, and a way to incorporate RDF in blog feeds, so that I could put together a little machine readable information of these places for search engines to index. As people slowly annotated their blogs this way it would be possible to search for reviews of bars that had free wifi in a particular town. And that would help support them, and so help support businesses that do the right thing.
Posted at 07:36PM Sep 10, 2005 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in travel | Comments[0]
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