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22 December 2008
Ride-Sharing 2.0 ~ Social Nets & ICT Enabled...
Interesting article in the NYTimes recently by Anne Eisenberg titled Need a Ride? Check Your iPhone, about Avego and Carticipate, two iPhone-enabled automobile ride-sharing ventures -- going well beyond classic hitchhiking, static carpooling, or analog ride-boards.
This arena of social network-enabled and info & communication technology ICT-accelerated ride-sharing is another essential urban innovation making for ever more livable, sustainable, and vital cities. Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase and her fellow MIT-alum husband Roy Russell have created another contender here, GoLoco.org, an easy way to share trips with friends -- and the friends of friends. Using a system which alerts users about travel opportunities, they turn social networks into travel networks...
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