There is a route of dark fiber running around Providence. Contact for some details.

We have open lab time during the week, 6-9 PM except for Weds. Drop by and check out the Lab. Bruce is finishing our first Makerbot over the next few weeks.

Blogged about the Future of the Mobile Web panel here. It's not a complete transcript but pretty close, covers all the major points:

http://www.gigantino.tv/arttechblog/?p=6

 

A lot of conferences do either a custom web-app or an SMS update system to keep participants informed. The conflict is similiar to what was discussed at last Thursday's panel discussion, namely the conflict between broad-and-light access or narrow-and-deep access. SMS is a known factor - anyone attending will have it, whereas a custom application is harder to deliver and is platform-specific. This gets easier with new development tools (Flash-to-iPhone) or with a narrower known audience (easier to roll out iPhone app @ an Apple event than Mobile World Congress). 

It would seem that the third "sweet spot" on this dial is to deliver nice 3G or wifi-based web sites that take advantage of generic mobile web browsers instead of specific software for specific phones.

If Cronk's Mobile Event Companion is easy to customize and deploy it would be ideal for iPhone/smartphone.