Many times in portland i see a cafe full of people where laptop users outnumber non-laptop users. Lets assume that some percentage of those lappy users would benefit by some kind of cooperation amongst the laptop users of that cafe. Similar themes are the companies that produce the game/quiz boxes. Every tabs in a bar has a little box to input trivia answers. Some bar-top standalone video games that take dollar bills. What makes this a little better than internet gaming/trivia/etc is that everyone has the same physical location.
Identity Page
Bob's Cafe User Page
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people could opt-in
Message board
- There is one setup for the Fresh Pot
Streaming music
- an in-cafe streaming station
- an in-cafe music library via DAAP
- regulars can request content (podcasts come to mind) that they would like to retrieve on a regular basis. The UGeast has this in testing.
Classified Ads
Local Content A public drop space for folks to put files for public getting. A size limit of the space plus a possible cron'd cleanup (everything older than X days goes byebye) would keep it from festering.