In an article entitled Let Your Fingers Be Your Guidebook, Seth Kugel offers that with the growing abundance of public Wi-Fi Hot Spots around museums and other points of interest in NYC, tourists are increasingly able to access the websites that pertain to them, and get useful information -- hours, fees, new exhibits -- even before their visit.
The parkwifi network takes this process one step further. We offer more than access. We also offer local links. Someone for instance logging on to The Delacorte Theatre on the southern part of The Great Lawn, for instance, will see an interactive map of the park location and surrounding neighborhood that looks like this (click to enlarge):
Kugel notes that the free Wi-Fi now available in NYC public spaces means that tourists can access google, wikipedia, or even The New York Times website. But why not make it even easier for tourists, who frankly might not even know what they are looking for, by aggregating local links?
We want people when they are at the Delacorte to know that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is close by, and we want to make it easier for them to visit that site, rather than going through all the extra steps. By aggregating local content and links at its 17 parkwifi locations and local portals, Wi-Fi Salon wants to give people -- for free -- the local information they want, along with the free Wi-Fi, of course.
The parkwifi network takes this process one step further. We offer more than access. We also offer local links. Someone for instance logging on to The Delacorte Theatre on the southern part of The Great Lawn, for instance, will see an interactive map of the park location and surrounding neighborhood that looks like this (click to enlarge):
Kugel notes that the free Wi-Fi now available in NYC public spaces means that tourists can access google, wikipedia, or even The New York Times website. But why not make it even easier for tourists, who frankly might not even know what they are looking for, by aggregating local links?
We want people when they are at the Delacorte to know that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is close by, and we want to make it easier for them to visit that site, rather than going through all the extra steps. By aggregating local content and links at its 17 parkwifi locations and local portals, Wi-Fi Salon wants to give people -- for free -- the local information they want, along with the free Wi-Fi, of course.