Menlo Park City Council Email Log<BR>: newsletter "valleyli

From: Gregory (Paul) McKenna <g_mcpaul_at_(domain_name_was_removed)>
Date: Tue Jun 17 2008 - 15:10:55 PDT

 
 valleylist Monday 6.16.2008 v 24.0 
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   HIGH TECH PRODUCTS

+ gore endorses obama and promises help
    a surprise every minute with obama and high tech

+&nbsp;telecom industry focuses on video, fat pipes 
+ first look: nvidia geforce gtx 200 series
+&nbsp;cheap&nbsp;pc gadget for internet calls selling well 
+ toshiba lays claim to 'world's lightest' laptop 


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CYBERCAFE'S AND LIBRARY CYBERCAFE'S in silicon valley are nothing compared to the online experience itself - - hey wait a minute which came first?
 
 
 

I STILL DO NOT HAVE A COMPUTER. The "valleylist" weekly internet newsletter takes around 2 days a week. Extra time needed to expand mailing list. Additionally the fun in cybercafe's is taking a chance and meeting new people. Especially people who are working on internet projects. The difficulty with the anti-people who slide over from Colonel Sanders KFC or Jack in the Box is that they don't seem interested in people. They'd rather prove their point - - people are going to need to learn to find a way to sit alone until I find a way to convince them to do what I tell them to do. The theory is that you find a way to keep people "in" and then someday you let them meet people. Somehow this is supposed to lead to a commercially viable situation. In fact it's just sadistic torture. The value in cybercafes is in meeting new people and coming up with new business or fun and interesting things to do. On top of all of that it sounds excruciatingly painful. Try to keep people alone and then convince them that someday you'll let them meet new people. Then when they meet new people inevitably it's a problem because then they of course run away. Then you have to chase them down and convince them to "come back" and "do what you tell them to do”. All of this overheard at the zrnetservice equipped cybercafe Church Street Cafe  on Church Street not far from Market in S.F.
 

The $150 used dell laptop is going to be my next purchase. It’s at a computer store in Willow Glen  which is an easy to access district in San Jose. The dell is a good value however the wi fi adapter is going cost extra. It’s a downhome yet to be revitalized strip between Fargo Street and Minnesota. Not to be missed - - Monsieur Beans Lucile Packard’s Thrift Box mi Rancho Super Market Bill's Cafa among the many expensive sporting goods stores coffee shops and ice cream stores. Not a single cybercafe to be found.
 

If it’s the nearly universal wi fi experience you’re considering or reconsidered [completed in silicon valley ahead of schedule] then try a new very low priced lap top - - Mini laptop has open-source case NanoBook EasyNote XS Cloudbook Dell Inspirion Notebooks start at around $500 ASUS | Eee PC starts around $400
 

Movie this week is The Happening The Happening starring Marky Mark MARKY MARK who grew up to be Mark Wahlberg who looks like a normal nice guy instead of the unbelievably studly brother of Donny Walberg Donnie Wahlberg a “New Kids on the Block” youngster himself. Check out the normal nice guy version of Mark Wahlberg's Success - Men's Health paradoxically a slightly ill version of usual very healthy looking appearance. Here’s all I’m telling you about the movie - -
 

What if you woke up one day and they were all gone
 

The silicon valley kingmaker version of Mark Wahlberg has a problem. It’s obvious and much to everybody’s surprise it’s about getting things done. The message - - his group has stated out loud that they are interested in a large sponsorship of my flagship service - - “valleylist let me publish your list on the web” . Only to find out yet again through the grapevine it’s supposed to be a very large sponsorship. Here’s the clincher. No meeting required.
 

Well now that we’re all idiots again to take this group of people even seriously here’s my experience - - his people cannot and will not schedule or keep a meeting.
 

Seven months later I’m still talking to San Jose City Hall and a lot of retail companies. What a drag.
 
 
 

ZRNET leads the pack in silicon valley area for cybercafe’s. With 40 cybercafe’s in S.F. and only a few in silicon valley. ZRNET is almost the entire story for cyber café’s. Their big business strategy - -
 

“ZRNet Service is the leading provider of public internet access in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing Internet services in cafes and lounges since 2000. We are dedicated in providing the public a cheap, fast, and easy way to get online, whether using your own Laptop, or using one of our Public Internet Access Systems. We realize the importance of internet to everyone's life, and the value of a reliable internet service provider. 

A ZRNet Service prepaid internet card gives you network access in all the quality locations we service in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, just look for the ZRNet Service logos wherever you go. For a full list of locations nearest you click on the locations link above.“
 

Here’s the entire list from ZRNET  Locations  their rate is around $5.00 for an hour online.
 
 
 

MAYOR OF THE WEEK should be Stewart Brandt  who spoke this past week at the 01SJ  Festival and actually came up with a new subject - - the future of cities. Chuck Reed has really gotten rid of a lot of trash around San Jose lately and really deserves credit for laying the ground work for a commercially successful summer of entertainment events. Reed however has yet to come up with a young visionary to help him and his people define the 21st century view of silicon valley. Stewart Brand created the Whole Earth Catalog because of a conviction that there was a real market for universal free access to information. Hence the whole earth catalogue and lots of interest in the concept of the universality. The hippie hyperbole is alive and well at the silicon valley public libraries who allow 2 hours of free access any day. All that is required is a library card. The employment development department also provides an hour or two a day for registered job searchers and business services people. Obviously silicon valley needs a lot more places where people can enable “free access to information” .  The odd surprise about silicon valley is this - - there really are no cybercafe's
There are those provided by ZRNET. All the rest is federal express, public libraries, the employment development department, and the odd computer access rental store. A detailed list of the “valleylist” 15 largest cities and places to find computer and internet access is almost completed however it will probably require a computer of my own before a lot of the detailed work can be completed.
 

I’ll give the 15 cities and their well entrenched management a year to completely upgrade to wi fi and cybercafe’s all around.
 
 
 

THE HOME OFFICE is not the best place to meet people. It is however also a potential tax write off. It is also a place to hide out. So what is the “mobile computing market” all about these days. People need access to computers and computer information at nearly any moment. If it’s not a wi fi equipped café or restaurant then it’s a bus stop or sandwich shop. I’d say it’s the ease of access to information in an “on demand” kind of lifestyle. The really big limitation to “mobile computing” is battery life and need to recharge the battery every 4 hours. Since so called laptops are more expensive than desktop computers it’s an easy question for us marketing people to solve - - battery life of 4 days instead of 4 hours and or laptop computers costing $200 to $900.
 
 
 

COMPUTER RETAILERS are notoriously unreliable unless you are planning to shell out $1,400 right then and there. The “valleylist” high tech retailers can help you find any computer you want and ship it the next day or let you trot it out the front door. My favorite is Fry’s which is a real silicon valley success story unto itself. Even better is Yahoo! Search with next day door to door delivery of hot new computer products at the lowest possible price - - shipping and handling extra.
 
 
 

NING internet social groups about cybercafe’s or wi fi [GROW YOUR OWN]
 

Cyber Cafe El Profe Cyber Cafe Cafe Society BGR CYBER CAFE Cyber Cafe Avenida Spire Cyber Cafe Infinity Cybercafe the edge cafe' Free Wi-Fi Places Tech Without Wires Wireless World valleylist San Francisco Cafes Cyber Space Cyber Matrix Network Cyber Ninja Hip Hop
 
 
 

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