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Designed for locals and travelers alike, City Maps provides detailed public transit and walking directions for major metropolitan areas in the U.S.
Designed for locals and travelers alike, City Maps provides detailed public transit and walking directions for major metropolitan areas in the U.S.
May 22, 2013
“Looking back on Larry Page’s tenure as CEO, I don’t know if it’s a coincidence but it seems reasonable to believe that, unlike Eric Schmidt, Page does not believe in open standards or an open Internet. Google has, in just a few short months, dropped support for open standards en masse, including RSS, XMPP, iCal/CalDav, and Podcasts (Listen). Additionally, other services are being forcefully “integrated” into Google , which has no complete public API and no interoperability with other systems. Google, is, in other words, the new AOL: A silo separate from the open web, with very limited interoperability.”
May 14, 2013
CHART OF THE DAY: The Unstoppable Rise Of Over-The-Top Mobile Messaging
OTT messaging has grown exponentially since 2011, when Informa and Portio Research both pegged its volume at about 4 billion daily messages. By year-end 2013, daily OTT message traffic is expected to more than double the amount of daily SMS texts.
Full Story: Business Insider
Rafer sez:
Yesterday, a VC asked me if I expected our second local ad platform to be Twitter. I said, “Probably not, it’ll probably be Kakao or Kik.”
May 14, 2013
…”look at how rich people are living today”.
Was said as a passing comment in a recent conversation. But I couldn’t let it just pass.
Think about it.
When you imagine Gordon Gecko from the movie Wall St. what image do you have in mind? Mine is the one of the poster boy of wealth clutching…
May 10, 2013
“If Facebook is going to want to have a big imprint in local search, they probably need their own maps and don’t want to be dependent on Google or Microsoft,” said Marc Prioleau, the managing director at Prioleau Advisors, a mapping consulting firm in California. “Buying Waze, they get a mapping platform and mapping data.”
May 8, 2013
April 30, 2013
“Drivers want that function in their dashboard systems, and we think it makes sense to provide it as a means of discouraging drivers from using hand-held phones as GPS systems,” the trade group said in a statement. “Our concern is that limiting built-in systems without simultaneously addressing portable devices could result in drivers choosing not to connect their phones in order to access the functionality they want.”
April 29, 2013
“Every dollar spent at a locally owned business generates two-to-four times the economic development impacts as a dollar spent on an equivalent non-local business.”
April 15, 2013
April 14, 2013
Tokyo’s subway system is arguably one of the most complex in the world. The map itself can be an immediate turn-off for any unfamiliarized straphangar. But exactly how do all these lines run underground, overlapping as they carry hundreds of thousands of passengers each day?
Tokyo University graduate student Takatsugu Kuriyama decided to answer that question be recreating an accurate three-dimensional model of Tokyo’s lifeline by using multi-colored tubes strung with wire. Different color liquids pulsate throughout all 18 lines, creating a staggering picture of what goes on below the streets of Tokyo every day.
(via kenyatta)
April 10, 2013
The bus you need to be on is sitting in traffic. You are at the bus stop, stuck waiting in the cold. Your frustration is rising. Sound familiar? Schedules are helpful, but you want to know when that bus will REALLY arrive.
We are excited to announce that City Maps v3.6 has real-time transit info!
(We can’t make the traffic go away, but we can at least let you know that you’ve got time to grab a coffee while you wait for your bus.)
Look for the real-time icon next to a route name on the “Transit details” screen—the icon indicates that those are real-time departures based on vehicle tracking.
These are the transit agencies currently showing real-time departure times in City Maps:
Boston - MBTA
San Francisco - MUNI
Oakland - ACTransit
Los Angeles - Metro
New York City - MTA Bus Bronx & Staten Island
Washington DC - DC Circulator
San Diego - NCTD
Davis - Unitrans
Stay tuned! We will be rolling out real-time info for more transit agencies just as fast as we can.
April 8, 2013
“It’s natural to look back and mythologize the long nights and manic moments of genius, but success isn’t about working hard, it’s about working smart.”
You don’t have to make yourself miserable to build a great company - Andrew Wilkinson (via davemorin)
Rafer sez:
You don’t have to — but it really f%#&ing helps.
(via davemorin)
Feb 13 2013
“Telephone company executives wondered whether the standard cord, then about three feet long, might be shortened. Mr. Karlin’s staff stole into colleagues’ offices every three days and covertly shortened their phone cords, an inch at time. No one noticed, they found, until the cords had lost an entire foot. From then on, phones came with shorter cords. Mr. Karlin also introduced the white dot inside each finger hole that was a fixture of rotary phones in later years. After the phone was redesigned at midcentury, with the letters and numbers moved outside the finger holes, users, to AT&T’s bewilderment, could no longer dial as quickly. With blank space at the center of the holes, Mr. Karlin found, callers no longer had a target at which to aim their fingers. The dot restored the speed.”
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