Google, Skype invest in Madrid based Wi-Fi company FON Concept: a Global Community of people who share WiFi.
Comment (via Wi-Fi News): I must be naive, but thought of this as a relatively small story. I am now seeing separate accounts in practically every major newspaper and publication in the world—I suppose Skype (eBay) and Google will do that to a company. Read what
Doc Searls has to say about it, and also David Weinberger,
who is part of Fon’s US advisory council. Fortune’s
article mentions that the Fon founder brought on board to that US advisory council a whole array of digerati and A-List technology bloggers.