As part of our continuing goal to improve Easy WiFi we’re running a survey. If you’re a user of the Easy WiFi app on your device, or the web portal at easywifi.com, this is a good chance to tell us what you think!
The survey is brief and should take 5 minutes or less to complete. We’ll post the results here in early March, but you can be assured we’ll take your input to heart.
Click here to access the survey!
Many thanks in advance,
Dave
The Easy Wi-Fi multi network application (white icon) is temporarily unavailable in the Apple App Store. It will be restored on or around October 20th.
So, why is it unavailable? Well, we’re working on a big new release, version 4. Due to the odd behavior of the App Store we can’t have the old version available while we also have a newer version with restricted availability. We’re not quite ready for prime time on the new app so we want to get it out to our partners and friends who will check it out and give us great suggestions. This forces us to halt broad availability and control access via Apple’s “promo codes.”
Sorry for the delay. Meantime you could use another version of Easy Wi-Fi (they’re all extensible to any hotspot provider).
What does version 4 contain? Well, it’s a secret! But we’re quite excited as it adds a revolutionary capability that many of you have asked for. Here’s a graphic from the app to tickle your imagination. Can you guess?
Want to be among the select reviewers of the new app? Send us an email request. We have 10 promo codes available and we’ll allocate them based on the inventiveness of your guess on what’s in version 4 and the sincerity of your plea 
Having a user base in excess of one million enthusiastic members gives us a great opportunity to query the habits, desires, and problems facing Wi-Fi users today. With that in mind, we’ve decided to conduct regular surveys of our membership, where we can ask insightful questions of this leading-edge community. We plan to conduct the survey quarterly, and publish the results in a piece of original research that we call “The Devicescape Wi-Fi Report”. Catchy huh? 
We conducted our first survey in January and have now published the first Devicescape Wi-Fi report for Q1, 2009. Some of the things we learned were quite surprising, while others simply confirmed what we already knew. Here’s a sample of what we learned:
Now that the first one is done, we’re working hard on the Q2 report. We plan on probing more deeply and hope to invite our friends in the industry to participate through crafting good questions and help promote Wi-Fi issues exposed in the report. Anyone can make use of the Report, provided that they refer back to Devicescape and don’t sell the data.
If you’re interested in reading more, check out the Devicescape Wi-Fi report at devicescape.com/wifi_report …and do get in touch if you’re interested in participating in future reports.
Wanted to keep you all posted that we’re working hard on an official release of Devicescape for Apple’s App Store. All being well this will make it out there in the very near future. The exact acceptance process and timeline is a little bit unclear.
I’m very excited about the new application as it’s much improved, with plenty of handy new features which improve usability. The team here has done a very nice job. The current limitations of Apple’s SDK don’t allow us to work in the background so you need to start the application and hit “login”. Still, that’s a lot nicer than wrangling with Safari and tedious login pages.
Many thanks to the hundreds of thousands of you with the current “hacked” version, for your enthusiasm and patience. Watch this space!
Sorry I didn’t get an announcement up for this ahead of time, but we presented Devicescape last night at November’s SF New “Mobile” Tech, at the Mighty last night.
I’d like to extend our thanks to Myles for organising the event, despite being no more than a few days away from becoming a father, and also to all the folks in the audience who already had Devicescape installed on their iPhones, iPod touches, Nokia phones, tablets and other mobile devices. It was amazing to see people hold up iPhones/iPods with the Devicescape UI open when I asked how many had Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices!
Also want to mention my co-presenters for the night:
It was great to see so many folks embracing mobile, something that Devicescape is committed to making simpler for people to use everyday, everywhere.
Although this version doesn’t contain Wi-Fi (so it is less interesting for Devicescape members), the mass market version due out later this year will include Wi-Fi support.
The platform, based on the open source community project called OpenMoko. OpenMoko is a very complete Linux based environment for mobile phones, and while the Neo is the reference there is also work to get it running on other mobile phone platforms.
Devicescape users who are attending the Linux World 2007 show in San Francisco can add the show’s free hotspot network to their ‘My WiFi’ list to have their devices connect automatically.
No need to see that captive portal just to sync your email, or to make that VoIP call home. I’ve tested it on my laptop (running Linux of course since this is Linux World), and my Nokia N95 mobile. Check out my history below, and please leave a comment if you use the service while you’re at the show.
While a lot of the blogging today has been around the Apple announcements this morning, I wanted to post something about the Linux World show, happening this week in San Francisco. I’m sitting at the edge of the show floor right now, having completed a first pass across the floor, and I thought I’d share the things that caught my attention.
I attended the July Geek Sessions event last night in San Francisco. On the panel, to present their experiences with surviving the hockey stick, were Sandy Jen from Meebo, Nick Heyman from VideoEgg, Rod Gorodetzky from digg and Jonathan Abrams from Socializr (and formerly Friendster).
I’d missed the first event because I was on my European odyssey, which if it was anything like last night’s is a shame. The panelists provided some interesting insight into the problems they faced scaling up websites to cope with an exponentially growing userbase.
In addition to that, the folks from Arcscale gave away a number of skate boards, B-Hive gave away an iPhone, and there was an open bar and hor’deurves served after the presentations.
SF Beta boasts gourmet catering, music throughout the night, a dozen startup demos, and great people all night long. It sounds too good to be true, but honestly this is $10 well spent! And at this months Beta-fest at the “uber-chic” 111 Minna Gallery, Devicescape will be strutting its stuff and showing off all the latest enhancements and offerings from our start-up, including first public appearances of our new feature “Personal Networks.” In addition, we’ll be showing our software running on Nokia phones and Windows Mobile 6 smartphones - bringing the total numbers of devices we run on to hundreds of millions. (There were more than 40 million s60 Nokia phones alone in 2005.) Come by, grab a cocktail and drink in the exciting atmosphere of tech start-ups showing off their wares to early adopter fans.
Devicescape will be showing:
Table 1 in the front room from 6 - 7:30
Table 5 in the back room from 7:30 - 9pm* (unless otherwise booked)
Tickets: $10/20 Online, $15/$25 Door
