Couple of interesting things

[undyingking]

A new idea from BT -- the notion is that everyone who has broadband from them can opt in to open up their hub to everyone else who's also opted in. If enough people do it, you'll have free wifi Interweb connections wherever you may roam. Of course, if enough people don't, it falls a bit flat, and at the moment there are only four such points in Ipswich showing on their map. They claim it's all very secure and so on... but I'm kind of wary. Fortunately, I don't really have any use for such a thing, anyway.

MyStrands is (yet) another music listening / recommendation thingy. I came across it via this rather neat graphic of listening history / connectivity. There seem to be quite a few nice side-projects like this growing out of it, because they've opened up the API to quite a large extent.

Comments

[zengineer.livejournal.com]

Unless you have the unlimited dowload option it could be a bit pricy if someone nextdoor uses your capacity for his bit torrenting and if you did have unlimited download it would be because you do a lot of high bandwidth downloads and would not want anyone using your bandwidth.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Reading the FAQs, it seems that "outside" users are limited to biting a total of 512kbps out of your bandwidth, so I supppose unlimited-download people might be prepared to potentially sacrifice that much in exchange for the benefits.

I'm on the unlimited option not for the reason you suggest but because I do an awful lot of low-bandwidth movements, so it wouldn't bother me too much -- if I could actually see any significant benefits.

[waistcoatmark.livejournal.com]

Of course BT also have the option of opening up your hub in an significantly less wise way

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Yes, they have a curious security policy where they try to lock it down as hard as they can to ordinary users, while opening it up to hackers.