WifiMug is a group of sister sites, collaboratively finding, documenting, and reviewing the burgeoning availability of independent coffee shops offering free wireless. Launched in Seattle's rich cafe culture in October 2003, there is now an active Vancouver site, and a nascent site for Boston.

Cities

WifiMug is Different

There are a very large number of directories listing all of the wireless access points in a geography. Where available WifiMug will often link to those. But that isn't the goal WifiMug. WifiMug attempts to provide enough information that can you decide if a given location is somewhere you'd like to hang out.

  1. Where is it? What neighborhood?
  2. What is the atmosphere like? What do they serve?
  3. Can I plug in my laptop?
  4. Who hangs out there?
  5. How late are they open?
The secondary goals are to celebrate the important role of independent coffee shops in a vibrant social scene, and help those of us who live some approximation of a technologically nomadic lifestyle and want to find a place to call "office" for a day or a week.

WifiMug is a Wiki

The other way WifiMug is different is it's a wiki. A wiki is website that anyone can edit, by clicking on the Edit button at the bottom of each page. You can add your own review and links, fill in missing information, or invent whole new ways of classifying coffee shops.

Who Fits?

By the way, we're open to non-coffee shop locations, we have the odd Mexican restuarant, wireless Indian buffet, and unstrung Philly steak house. We're not interested in boring corporate chains, and business that are charging for wireless.