Free WiFi for the Holidays, from Google

spangley:rickwebb:brit:

From now until January 15, 2010, you can access free wifi in 47 different airports and on all Virgin America flights. Pretty sweet, eh?

List of participating airports:

  • A bunch of airports that AREN’T San Francisco International

San Francisco (and the bay area in general) SUCKS at branding.  This is the hotbed of innovation, the birthplace of technology, etc.  Arrington and Andreessen will try to convince you that being in Silicon Valley offers so many competitive advantages that our dominance will continue (and in-fact, grow because of the network effects of more good people moving here). Certainly today, Silicon Valley is getting better entrepreneurs at a faster rate, but so is NYC, Boston, and Boulder (and a lot of other cities).  Entrepreneurship is more acceptable, there are more of them — a rising tide lifts all boats.

DAMNIT HOME, please figure out how to market yourself.