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Realtime Ridesharing – Optimizing Existing Automotive Infrastructure

the idea collector — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:40:41 +0000

What if you could easily fill empty seats in cars on existing roadways? Avego is a good first step.

“Any car that travels while occupied only by a driver is inherently inefficient. And yet, 85% of the time, that’s how cars travel. With our use of iPhone GPS technology, web services and your participation, we can fill up those empty seats.”

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Improvised WiFi Phone

the idea collector — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:45:00 +0000

The fees on my global cellular plan are big while I’m roaming internationally. Skype is great for making calls over an internet connection, but you have to be at your computer to make the call. Most hotels have an ethernet jack in their rooms and some have WiFi for guests. I wasn’t excited about spending a bunch of money to make international calls on my cell phone and I wasn’t excited about sitting behind my portable all night. So I turned on internet sharing on my Mac, fired up Fring on my iPhone and made all of my calls for $0.02 per minute through my Skype account.

I’m sure you can do the same thing with a PC and a Smartphone or Blackberry. If you know how, let me know in the comments.

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mobaganda

the idea collector — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:11:42 +0000

event planning made simple
no registration, no login
a custom url, rss feed and an email address to email all attendees

{hat tip: Eric}

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