I blogged about fon back in June. Tanya who works there just left a comment, and they’re doing a national survey in the UK to discover if Britain is a sharing nation over at wouldtheyshare.com and they’ll be giving away “hundreds of La Fonera + routers and a trip to Madrid among voters”.
Cool! I’d love to see more Fon hot spots in the UK. Go check it out, win a La Fonera (?) and become a member!
About two months ago Martin threw the best web related event I’ve been to, TechTalk in Menorca. The event was great, the speakers were great, being outside for an event was great, and Loic threw videos on his own vpod channel for all to see. While there Martin gave out a free ‘La Fonera’ promocode, so I took him up on his offer.
We’ve joined (as a linus) the other ten or so fon hotspots in Brighton. (for free wifi in Brighton we also have Loose Connection, and Pier to Pier)
I might be preaching to the converted here, but the experience of setting up La Fonera, and managing it makes it so attractive to recommend it to my mom/grandmom/etc. I’ve long had a theory (and many others have I’m sure) that security issues should not at any point be handled by non-geeks.
fon is perfect! Yes, you have to trust fon as they handle security for you, and as Stefans Datenbruch and Michael Kebe pointed out by hacking La Fonera: there is potential for risk. They clarify “[it] wasn’t our intention to harm users or FON in any way”. I don’t think they did, hopefully they made fon stronger as it’s another security issue which hopefully end users won’t have to worry about, the experts at fon can.
P.S. you just got to watch their video: Matador El Café.