Steve Lokam Blogs

My Main Blog - blog.open-logix.com or www.stevelokam.com

Hi, Sorry, I have not been updating this blog for quite some time.. Because, I have been updating my other blog mostly. Here is how you read that blog...

1. http://blog.open-logix.com (or)
2. http://www.stevelokam.com (or)
   
3. http://stevelokam.typepad.com

Cheers,
Steve Lokam

Site Meter - Stats on Amazingly Wireless

We were analysing the Site Meter reports for Amazingly Wireless earlier this morning among our team members and we found that we have got some terrific traffic to our blog. Here are some of things that I feel got us some traffic:

1. We had some good links to good Wireless Websites
2. We had lot of trackbacks to blog posts related to our Blog.
3. We had some good comments on some popular Wireless blogs.
4. Technorati seemed to start recognizing our site as being very active.
5. One of the things we did is used the Technorati's Ping, when ever we posted a new post on our blog. That really helped us on all our sites.

Here is our where we got some of our traffic from. All over the globe. We had traffic from All over the USA, South America & Sydney Australia.

BTW, I also noticed that when I included someone's blog on my blogroll, they did revert the same. They included mine on their website.

This Site Meter is really helpful in figuring out who is reading our posts. Who is searching for what terms on the web. Interesting.. Kudos to site meter.

Cheers,
Steve Lokam

Site Meter - Can we have more websites monitored?

Site Meter is such a cool thing. I put a site meter on my blog now and I can see who is visiting my blog and more details.

One more cool thing is that I could see who, from which domain is visiting my blog. This could be a great thing for businesses to who what kind of customers are visiting. I dont know how much of a use this could be in the Consumer-based Businesses, but man, this could mean a big thing for B2B. If your company is selling to businesses, then, this is really useful, because you could literally see which companies have visited your website or your blog. Interesting. And.. if you upgrade your account, wow.. then you get more details than you ever want. this is cool.

 

I will have this setup on my company website..We currently have a sitemeter that we built ourselves, but this is much easier to do. But, hey.. my site meter account that I currently have is not letting me monitor more than one site, I guess. May be someone could help me on that? If so, please comment.

Thanks
Steve Lokam
stevelokam.typepad.com

Detroit Essentials

Detroit Essentials is a great site that talks about stuff related to Detroit.

This blog covers topics all the way from Super Bowl that is happening in Detroit tomorrow to other things like culture, businesses, sports (pistons) in Detroit.

One of the posts about the infamous Michigan's U turn is a nice post for someone who came in new into Detroit, for example who came to Detroit for the SuperBowl. They would not know how to turn left at an intersection.

Interesting articles in there. Keep blogging on Detroit.. Atul, Jovina and Becky.

Steve Lokam
stevelokam.typepad.com

Troy Pilot of the Oakland County Project Successful

Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, Wireless Oakland project manager Tammi Shepherd and Troy Mayor Louise Schilling celebrate as they use the wireless Internet for the first time on a laptop.

Source: Detnews.com

Cheers,
Steve Lokam

Oakland County Wireless Project Update.

I thought this service was supposed to be free. Of course, they are going to offer the basic thing for free and you need to upgrade with MichTel if you want higher bandwidth. I dont know if 128kbps is enough.

Some of the readers of the post "Update on Oakland County, Wireless Project" comments that they are not even able to connect and added to that, the connection is way too slow. Hope they are going to fix all those speed issues.

Can anyone throw some light on what is the technology behind this Wi-Fi hotspots these guys are trying to install?

Cheers,
Steve
stevelokam.typepad.com

Univ of Michigan - Wireless Map

Having a wireless connection at school helps me a lot. It keeps me connected all the time. I can get a lot more work done, while I am there.

Click on this link "Wireless Map for Univ of Michigan" to figure out where you could get access to the WI-FI  wireless hotspots.

UM Wireless Network is a wireless local area network (WiFi) available to all who have a valid University of Michigan uniqname and umich password. For detailed information about UM Wireless Network locations as well as other wireless networks available on campus, see University of Michigan wireless network locations.

Steve Lokam
stevelokam.typepad.com

Free Wi-Fi Hotspots out there?

Yes, this is where you find that.

wififreespot.com is a nifty website that provides a list of free wifi spots around the world. Though they try to keep the list upto date, it could have some faulty information.

Steve Lokam

Should Municipalities run their own wireless networks? (Post 1 of 3)

This is a follow up post to the one that I posted regarding Oakland county becoming wireless soon. However, there is a big debate going on in the wireless world. Should counties like Oakland County in Michigan, municipalities and local governments install and run their own wireless networks.

Ed Vielmetti in one of his posts (YI-Tan call on Municipal Wireless) says that there is a big debate among local carriers and the local governments about this topic.

More on this in posts to follow.

Steve Lokam
http://stevelokam.typepad.com

RF Connect - A Budding Wireless company in Michigan

RFConnect is a company that deals with setting up Wireless Networks for companies in and around Michigan. They have recently partnered with SpotWave, which specializes in providing Cellular Signal Boosters (if I may use that word) to boost Cellular signals within a building.

For more information, here is the link: http://wirelesswaters.typepad.com/nowireh2os/2006/01/rf_connect_inks.html.

RFConnect is not a Ceullar company, but they set up wireless networks for buildings, towns. manufacturing facilities among others. Visit them at http://www.rfconnect.com

Cheers,
Steve Lokam