Will Not Be Televised

7 months ago from bookmarklet

CO-RIDE open innovation (by TATMobileUI)

A recent Freakonomics podcast got me thinking whatever happened to Co-ride.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TATMobileUI#p/u/5/yiirDx4isBQ

The best point is that 80% of space in America’s cars goes unused. It really wouldn’t be that hard to bring back hitchhiking in a big way with a good social network and smartphones. All you have to do is create an ebay style market where users have a feedback mechanism and vetting process with photos so you know who to pick up, a Co-ride like app to facilitate the market for the users, to create a payment system so that people with cars have a little incentive to pick up riders when they can, and to maximize the usefulness make the system smart enough to find all trips that would get you closer to your destination and utilize them to minimize your travel time. If you look at the video, but envision using more than one ride to get where you are going, you’ll see how simple of an experience it could be.

When I was looking at other posts on the original page one of the women brought up that women are often harrassed, but that can be discouraged by a feedback mechanism, especially one that includes a person’s face and a permanent record of the transaction. Even now, hitchhiking is a basically a black market but the technology exists to make safer and more mutually beneficial than ever.

1 year ago from bookmarklet

Smartphones to Overtake Feature Phones in U.S. by 2011 | Nielsen Wire

How much will the least expensive smartphone plans cost when this happens? Do the phone companies team up, because if there could definitely be 1 or 2 phone network styles that they team up on to push down cost. When I looked at the cost of paying for a families worth of smartphones, it is crazy expensive. To be honest if we had a stronger data network, we could do VOIP which should be even cheaper.

1 year ago from bookmarklet

The Story of Electronics (2010) (via storyofstuffproject)

Notes: 54 / 1 year ago from -upinthesky (originally from newdeezy)

-upinthesky:

newdeezy:

I AM…

OMG i’m dying lol

1 year ago

I hate it when a car, that would otherwise be a great car loses all their cool points. These are a couple pieces of good design in simple cars that are too often mishandled with other cars.

Notes: 1 / 1 year ago from bookmarklet

via i.imgur.com

Sounds about right

1 year ago from bookmarklet

Rachel Maddow: The business of news

Jon Stewart is right. How can Cable News be fixed?

Notes: 10 / 1 year ago from techspotlight (originally from zekarlos)

techspotlight:

zekarlos:

First major building in the world with integral wind-turbines

1 year ago from bookmarklet

London’s new double-decker bus unveiled [w/video] — Autoblog

America needs to step up their bus game.

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autoblog

1 year ago from bookmarklet

5 Lessons Madison Avenue Can Learn From Startups

1 year ago from bookmarklet

Report: Volkswagen planning hotter Jetta R — Autoblog

A 300 horsepower all-wheel drive Jetta would be very interesting. I’m starting to see that getting a sports car and not being a very rich man is silly. You don’t have time to enjoy it and get your money’s worth. You’d look like a tool driving it to work every day and even worse is if you had kids. But a sports sedan, now we’re talking.

1 year ago from bookmarklet