Cities Go Gaga for Google Fiber

No one hump exactly how much Google be after to invest in its ISP business , but its report as hard cash behemoth alone has metropolis from Anchorage , Alaska , to Sarasota , Florida battling to become the hunting colossus ’s new tryout market .

Faster than you could say Google Fiber ( though not fast than the company ’s suggest gigabit speeds ) metros flog up Facebook pages and took to Twitter to raise consciousness and offer instruction on how to nominate their hometown . FastCompany.com disentangle through thisrapidly arise listing of citiesand displume together a few of the more originative efforts — some snarky , some glossa - in - impudence , all seriously hoping that when the coating process ends on March 26 and the dust clears in this social medium - fueled Thunderdome , they ’ll arrogate Google Fiber ’s handsome line . Many towns embark . One burgh leaves .

Columbia , Missouri

Columbia has all the vantage of a swelled metropolis partner off with the access trouble of small - townspeople America : low - performance , mellow - monetary value broadband , and next to no fibre base , says Amberly Engert , a societal media manager . So she created aFacebook page , and Ian Eyberg , a software developer depart theComo Fiber Groupto tout the potentially massive opportunity Google Fiber posed . Engert say that while no one in Columbia is jumping in a lake or renaming the town ( say on ) , occupier have submitted picture kudos to the growing nontextual matter vista and the “ keen cultivation ” on the group ’s Web situation . The elbow grease really coalesced on Saturday when some 15,000 signs print with Google ’s logotype were allot to the sell - out gang at the nationally televised Missouri - Kansas men ’s basketball game .

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Grand Rapids , Michigan

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TheGoogle Fiber for Grand Rapidssteering committee points out that the typical Comcast & AT&T U - poetry connection is about 6mbps — a far yell from Google ’s gig . So they ’re contrive a “ Flash Mob ” citywide rally on March 19 that is expected to include a “ human fiber ” chain of joined script ( Hands Across Grand Rapids ? ) to produce what PDA hope will be a huge show of support . As it is , Grand Rapids currently has the distinction of call for themost fan on its Facebook devotee page(over 22,000 at last count ) since it start on February 10 . And , hey ! Here ’s a local “ television personality ” making her case .

Greenville , South Carolina

Greenville ’s feeling lucky . The effort to woo Google started by a group of twelve well - touch base somebody and has spread like wildfire through the local tech community . Trey Pennington , an arranger , says this is not surprising give the community ’s mindset “ dominated by commitment to join forces . ” The group quickly produced a video playacting off of Google ’s “ Feeling Lucky ” search theme and is plan a unique “ community verbal expression project”—Google on Main . Set to blossom out the dark of March 20th , citizen armed with glowsticks will amass in downtown Greenville — on Main Street — to rave show their backup for the approach of Google Fiber . Rumor has it the case will be filmed by chopper .

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Peoria , Illinois

The dweller of Peoria , Illinois , want Google to know that it has n’t yet taken a bit in the “ geographic center of the universe of discourse . ” Not yet anyway . A special Web land site , Google Plays in Peoria , features a video rife with slides of arcadian cityscape and stir medicine from Vangelis . Peoria herald that on March 26 , Google “ will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to diddle in Peoria . ” But that ’s not all . Photographs of the seven wonder of Peoria result , and once again the city pitches Google , this sentence for a luck to join the membership of a larger - than - liveliness two-piece clad carving , a Twistee Treat , and others as the urban center ’s “ eighth wonderment . ” If all else fails , Peoria says to Google , “ Do it for the kid . ” Media reporting includes a story ofways Peoria schools could do good from fast Internet entree .

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Topeka , Kansas

Jared Starkey , the President of the United States of LAMP Development , LLC , order the campaign start as Facebook chemical group and spun out into a young chemical group called “ Think Big Topeka . ” Now over 14,000 volunteer extremity solid ( with no dues , and therefore , no money box account ) , they are relying on donate advertising and promotional support to distribute the word further . Most famously , Topeka ’s mayor issue a proclamation(on Google Docs , natch ) that for the intact month of March , Topeka would be rename Google , Kansas . Starkey would like to remind Google that the metropolis served as the testbed for Pokemon in the U.S. back in 1998 , so they are unambiguously qualified to be Google ’s control group . And he says , theirs is the only city to make external headlines with their bid for Fiber .

Sarasota , Florida

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take short letter of the gauntlets thrown by Topeka and Duluth , Sarasota renamed its City Island , Google Island , and produce a ( rather hilarious)videojuxtaposing the positives of the metropolis nestled in the Sunshine State with the less - than - picturesque landscape painting of the Heartland , and the articulatio humeri - high snow drifts and suspend temperature of Minnesota . ‘ Nuff said .

Duluth , Minnesota

But wait ! Patrick Garmoe , public selective information officer of the Google Twin Ports Initiative express joy sheepishly as he explains Googlefest , an event that is one part rally , one part fair and all parts ebullience for the promise of Google Fiber . In the midst of lot , choir and other amusement , “ We ’ll be shooting a pic with material thespian and a Hollywood manager and live - teem the effect to impress Google , ” Garmoe says . The Modern enterprisingness comes on the heels of Deluth city manager Don Ness ’s own stunt . In a spoof video proclamation that in honour of Google , all first wear males would be henceforth named GoogleFiber and first wear females would of course be Googlette . Also , he literally slump to a young low in the vicious battle for business . He alternate into the freezing waters of Lake Superior . Hizzoner , perhaps you ’ll be deterred from further lunacy by these exceedingly gnarly Google Image results for “ frostbite . ”

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