Tomorrow’s meeting of Asheville City Council sees another go at new development incentives, and a number of workforce or affordable housing developments wrapping up or coming to the city for a partnership.
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Google announces first community where it will build an ultra-high speed fiber net: Stanford
Google announced today that it will build an ultra-high speed broadband data network in its neighboring community of Stanford, Calif. The announcement noted that this first choice is separate from its main community selection process, adding, “…we still plan to announce our selected community or communities by the end of the year.”
Asheville Google fiber-network initiative launches Asheville-O-Vision library of videos
Asheville’s push to land the Google fiber initiative has yielded this youtube library of more than 20 Asheville-made Google-fiber-related videos, plus an assemblage of dozens of others showcasing Asheville’s imaginative and sometimes bizarre talent.
Asheville City Council passes Larchmont Project, “Google moment” ***updated 6 p.m.***
City Council passed unanimously the Larchmont project, approved a resolution in support of holding a “Google moment,” and heard comments from staff about strategies for dealing with the budget shortfall.
Asheville holds a town-hall meeting to build support for Google’s fiber project
Twitter coverage of last night’s town-hall meeting; ***UPDATED WITH VIDEOS***
Town hall session tonight hopes to mind-meld Ashevilleans’ Google dreams
Ashevilleans dream big (as well as weird), so when Google announced its plans to hook one U.S. town up with superfast Internet connections, residents took note. This Thursday’s meeting will address what’s happened to-date and what may happen in the next 10 days remaining in the period to apply to Google to be the selected town.
Video a-go-go
In this week’s round-up of local videos: Asheville gets Google-eyed, Jason Ingle keeps tabs on our real-estate market, wondering why the turkeys crossed the road, The Enemy Lovers — and more. Watch ‘em here!
Getting Google fiber in Asheville: “We get to be a part of the insanity”
Gordon Smith and others discuss why Google’s fiber project belongs in Asheville. Video by wumedia
Patsy Keever shares her views on how Asheville might use Google’s 1-gig/sec Internet service
Photo by Zen Sutherland.
Gordon Smith convenes group to promote citizen support for Google high-speed initiative
About 30 people assembled at the Dripolator on Thursday evening, March 4, to discuss ways to encourage citizen involvement to convince Google to pick Asheville as the town where it will build a high-speed fiber-optic network that brings super Internet connectivity to homes and businesses at speeds of 100 times that of DSL and other typical services presently available.
Getting Google with grassroots involvement
Google on Wednesday announced that it planning to test blazing-fast broadband networks in trial locations around the country, and has invited residents and local governments to express their interest. In an effort to boost Asheville’s chances at becoming a test location, the Mountain Xpress has set up a place to help the grassroots get organized.
