chrisurban.com

I tried a couple of times late last week to sign on, even after creating a new account with Feather for the free service. A phone call to EarthLink customer service, not surprisingly, provided no new details - really no details at all - regarding when, or what would be available when.
Today, after signing on using the new free account, I can surf away. What is interesting is the obvious data that gets collected after signing on: I see in my redirection URL the following parameters:

• name
• plan=free
• zip=where I am?, from the nearest router is, presumably
• start time, in the format MM:dd:hh:mm:ss
• end time, in the same format, + 30 days
• email= address provided during signup
• lat and lon, from the nearest router,presumably.

On closer examination of the zip and the lat/lon correlate, but these are actually nowhere near where I am physically. It’s putting me at 15 blocks west, a bit over a mile away, of where I actually am.
Aside from loggin where customers physically are, this probably being used more to draw a little local map as well as determine closest items (movie theaters, etc.) on the new home page you land on:
http://philadelphia.feather.com/
Going to this page without these parameters won’t work, so try this:
http://philadelphia.feather.com/?name=Your%20Name&plan=free&zip=19141-3025
&start=06:20:13:59:43&end=12:31:13:59:43&email=email@domain.com&lat=39.952846&lng=-75.134983

This will put you on the Ben Franklin Bridge, and give you 6 months remaining on your free account.