Nothing says “ultra-fast broadband” better than the image of four poodles dressed as the “Wizard of Oz” gang. Or a video of a man dunking himself in a tank full of sharks. Or the sight of thousands of people gathering at night and using glow-sticks to spell out the logo of a certain world-famous search engine company. When Google announced in February that it was seeking one or two cities for building out an experimental high-speed fiber-optic network, it sparked lightspeed-fast reactions from communities vying to see which could make the wackiest pitch for the company’s attention.
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Cities Sell Themselves - and Their Dignity - for a Shot at Google Fiber
Posted by: Renay San Miguel April 5, 2010 11:25 AMNothing says “ultra-fast broadband” better than the image of four poodles dressed as the “Wizard of Oz” gang. Or a video of a man dunking himself in a tank full of sharks. Or the sight of thousands of people gathering at night and using glow-sticks to spell out the logo of a certain world-famous search engine company. When Google announced in February that it was seeking one or two cities for building out an experimental high-speed fiber-optic network, it sparked lightspeed-fast reactions from communities vying to see which could make the wackiest pitch for the company’s attention.