p2b bright[on] ideas

DIY wireless networking

Wireless networking is already popular in Brighton - we have the Pier-to-Pier project and the people from Loose Connections doing their best to promote wireless usage.

More on both at www.looseconnection.com and www.piertopier.net.

Further afield are the good people of Oregon, building a network of people willing to share their radio networks and the bandwidth they alreayd buy. Take a look at www.personaltelco.net.

Wi-fi offers a lot of possible benefits as its usage grows and the cost of the technology falls - but perhaps we need a bigger push to make it come together in Brighton and Hove?

Your life in a box [on the internet]

Microsoft is looking at how it could enable us to log everything about our lives and make it searchable - this includes every email you ever send, every telephone call you make and video of every significant event you wish to record...

They've decided that fitting it all on a hard disk is the easy bit - it's the tagging that's more difficult, so they're looking at clever ways of automatically tagging content. A similar issue is being looked at as part of developing theplacetobe.net search engine.

See the story on the BBC site.