{"id":607,"date":"2005-07-05T07:47:21","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T14:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2005-07-05T07:47:21","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T14:47:21","slug":"a-tool-to-wake-up-wi-fi-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/05\/a-tool-to-wake-up-wi-fi-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tool to Wake Up Wi-Fi Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,68056,00.html?tw=rss.TOP\">Wired News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><I>by Cyrus Farivar<\/p>\n<p>02:00 AM Jul. 05, 2005 PT<\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; Sean Savage wants to hook you up by tearing you away from the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The one-time promoter of flash mobs is once again waging battle against digital alienation with a new tool aimed at getting Wi-Fi cafe &#8220;zombies&#8221; to look up and smell the coffee. The problem: Computers are fabulous at connecting people over a long distance, but they can become a wall between people who are sitting right next to each other.<\/p>\n<p>At the O&#8217;Reilly Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week, Savage announced his latest project, PlaceSite, which combines online social networking with real-life networking in Wi-Fi cafes by providing computer users with a website unique to a particular Wi-Fi cafe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thought about what if you could use technology to reduce the zombie effect or to promote (people) to be more conscious and less alienated from their neighbors,&#8221; Savage said.<\/p>\n<p>Wi-Fi users in a certain cafe would encounter a login window when they first sign on, which would prompt them to enter a Friendster-like profile that would let other cafe dwellers know when they were in that cafe. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired News: by Cyrus Farivar 02:00 AM Jul. 05, 2005 PT SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; Sean Savage wants to hook you up by tearing you away from the internet. The one-time promoter of flash mobs is once again waging battle against digital alienation with a new tool aimed at getting Wi-Fi cafe &#8220;zombies&#8221; to look up and smell the coffee. The problem: Computers are fabulous at connecting people over a long distance, but they can become a wall between people who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-journalism","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-9N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}