Fon is a very innovative Spanish Startup. They set out to create a community of people who will share their Internet connection with strangers. Basically, to be part of the community and share your Wifi connection with others, you need to go to Fon‘s website and download a program onto your WiFi router that will allow Fon members to get access to WiFi anywhere in the world.

For example, let’s say you live on 51 West 21st Street, in New York, and you decided to share your connection with Fon members, if a member happens to be in the neighborhood, he will be able to access to the Internet, from his hotel, his car, or even down the street.

To know where you can find a Fon “access point”, you can use their maps and locate one near you. It’s still a new project (3 months old), so you have only a few access points available yet.

Google and Skype were very interested in that project that they decided to invest in Fon.