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San Francisco based Meraki is hard at work on giving the nearly one-million people in their fair city free, ubiquitous internet access; of course, if they get their way, they’ll have the whole world connected in a matter of years. Using wireless repeaters that are distributed free-of-charge to people with internet access, the company has quickly built a free wireless network throughout San Francisco that, as of today, reaches 114,527 users with even more joining on every hour.
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If you look at the way a typical website runs, whether a social-network, a forum, or a shopping portal, most sites require you to register for an account to utilize everything that they have to offer. By now, if you’re anything like me, you have accounts on virtually every imaginable website on the web. On a daily basis you may login to two or three of those accounts and the rest you probably used once to try something out, place an order, or access a feature that was tagged as “members-only.”

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A few years ago, what you were doing was essentially known only by yourself, your family, and your closest friends. A stranger in Dubai didn’t know you were on the way to Whole Foods to pick up something organic for dinner and he didn’t care. Today, there very well may be hundreds of people worldwide waiting to see what your next move of the day will be - that is, of course, assuming that you’re addicted to Twitter.

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