4 month ago
deusx : Radical Cyclists Take to L.A. Freeways to Say Bikes Are Better | Autopia from Wired.com - "For the second time in two months, a bunch of Los Angeles bike advocates calling themselves Crimanimalz took to one of the busiest freeways in the world to make the case that, when your freeways are gridlocked, bikes are better."
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5 month ago
nelson : Dash GPS - GPS that shares your speed data with other users, building a bottom up understanding of traffic flow
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6 month ago
plasticbag : Found via Mr Webb, my Minicity grows every time a unique person in the world (ie. you) visit the page - When a unique person visits it, a new person joins the community. It's a lovely association to make. In the end, it's a game about traffic, only it's assembled in such an elegant form...
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Rod Begbie : Commuter Feed - Crowdsourced traffic reports, via Twitter. Of course, there'll need to be another site tracking all the accidents caused by folks texting accidents to this site while driving... [via] #
factoryjoe : Commuter Feed: Latest Incidents - Commuter Feed is a free service that lets you see reports on traffic and mass transit incidents in your local area using Twitter. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
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9 month ago
Rod Begbie : Dash Express GPS Video and Deets: True Traffic Reporting and Custom Maps for $599 - I *really* like the look of this upcoming GPS -- it gathers the speeds of other users over time and warns you when there's slow traffic ahead, even on roads that SmartTraveller, etc. don't cover. Will have to check them out at CES. #
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11 month ago
deusx : Navigating With Feedback From Fellow Drivers - New York Times - "There’s this long chain of cars up ahead. What if the cars could talk to one another?"
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14 month ago
nelson : Penis panic - Town freaks out that their traffic devices look phallic
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16 month ago
nelson : No parking amnesty - Sarkozy breaks with tradition and does not dismiss all minor traffic tickets
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16 month ago
Andy Baio : Kottke on the growth of Twitter vs. Blogger - digging into Twitter's incredible growth using low-tech means; the comments are good, too
nelson : Twitter, Blogger growth - more delving into IDs to give a clue to message traffic
Linkorama : Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger - Interesting comparison, hints at low thresholds, multiple modalities, experience of team as cause
jimray : Kottke's got a sharp post about the growth of Twitter v. Blogger - With charts for the kids! Uses the sequential numbering of post-ids to compare message growth of the two services.
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17 month ago
wearehugh : [PIC] Tanker fire destroys part of MacArthur Maze / 2 freeways closed near Bay Bridge - Macarthur Maze turns into a bizarre Salvador Dali scene
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19 month ago
nelson : SF Bay Area traffic - Google Maps finally adds a traffic layer
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jimray : Flashers help with speeders in Denmark - I'm having a hard time believing this is real. I'm also having a hard time understanding why I don't move to Denmark.
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22 month ago
jimray : My IP address and location - Reverse lookup/google maps mashup
Linkorama : My IP - show and locate my ip-address mashup
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Linkorama : FeedBurner acquires Blogbeat - Moves into site stats
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30 month ago
Linkorama : Facebook's on the Block - The owners of the privately held company have turned down a $750 million offer and hope to fetch as much as $2 billion in a sale, senior industry executives familiar with the matter say.
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32 month ago
Linkorama : The Conversational Index - The best predictor of blog success -- aside from previous success in other blogs -- is the Conversational Index, because it contains the outcomes of many other small things done right.
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32 month ago
Andy Baio : Kottke on the Digg vs. Slashdot effects - Slashdot still wields enormous traffic, even as Digg's influence grows
Linkorama : Digg vs. Slashdot - (or, traffic vs. influence) (kottke.org)
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Tens Tips for writing a blog post: Blog Tips at ProBlogger - Tip 3: Write Less: Give the maximum amount of information with the least amount of words. Time is finite and people are infinately busy. Blast your knowledge into the reader at the speed of sound
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: Vehicle Tracking in the UK - Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years
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34 month ago
Linkorama : The Return of Monetized Eyeballs - Maybe with scarcity of ad property we should be valuing fingers instead of eyeballs. Some people will love this, thinking it gives them an immeadiate 10x increase.
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36 month ago
jimray : The News and Observer maps traffic cams on top of Google maps - Joe, this is fucking cool, man
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plasticbag : A fascinating graph shows the relative daily traffic of two major international websites - Dear God are Flickr doing well. That looks like exponential growth. Or logarithmic growth. wow.
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