Blogger dinners are the new press conferences. They’re intimate. They encourage conversation. But more importantly, they create a very human bond between the people behind the brand and those covering the industry.

I was invited to attend a very special dinner at the Village Pub along with several prominent reporters, bloggers and online influencers hosted by FON.

The dinner served as a preview for the company’s new Fonera 2.0n WiFi Router that was officially introduced today.

The Fonera 2.0n WiFi router combines FON’s proprietary, unique WiFi sharing and money making features with integration and management of popular social services such as YouTube, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, BitTorrent, RapidShare, and other content — even while users’ PCs are off.

Now anyone can now upload, download and sync all of their Web apps while away from home or the office, without getting bogged down for hours waiting for something to load.

The Fonera 2.0n is available now.

I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story:

Michael Arrington and Loic Le Meur

Paul Boutin of VentureBeat/New York Times and Martin Varsavsky of FON

Martin Giles of The Economist

Dave McClure

Jennifer Leggio of ZDNet

Robert Scoble and Jeremiah Owyang

Loic, iJustine, Randi Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey

For additional pictures from the FON blogger dinner, please visit my album on Flickr.

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