
Exponential Innovations Everywhere
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Joost Bonsen's Opinions on How Money, Ideas, and Talent can
Enable Health, Wealth, and Happyness for Each plus Achieve Liberty, Prosperity, and Vitality for All and Ultimately Help Us Spread Beyond Our Cradle Planet Earth
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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