Posts tagged "iphone"

In partnership with 511ContraCosta.org, Blinktag is proud to announce the release of its very first iPhone application, iSmog. This is something we hope to be doing more of in the future, so be sure to contact us if you’d like one of your own. From 511CC: “511 Contra Costa is proud to announce the release [...]

CitySourced launched today at the TechCrunch50. Its a  website & iphone, Blackberry & Android app that allows users to submit notes and pictures about issues directly to city government.  This could be anything from potholes to graffiti to unsafe pavement conditions on bike routes. On the city’s end, CitySourced bundles the reports, sorts by type [...]

Google maps added traffic conditions on local streets today. A map of San Francisco shows traffic on South Van Ness near the Blinktag Office as medium, actually the street is rarely congested, it just has a lot of stop lights so you can rarely go “fast” even with no other vehicles. Freeway traffic had been [...]

SFAppeal wrote a great article detailing the hurdles of trying to get real time info from a public transit agency. In the case of San Franciso Muni, they claim to own the data and also the desire for the public to access that. A Muni representative even mentioned that they want to provide their real [...]

Remember Avego?  The company that makes a ridesharing iPhone ap? For some reason I’m subscribed to their newsletter, and a few news items came over the transom. First, they’ll be opening up a DC office to lobby federal, state, and local agencies to adopt their technology.  The guy who runs it is named Jason Conley, [...]

We like our company name, a reference to a non-standard HTML tag. It looks like there might be a new competitor, the pulse css animation. If you are on an iphone or using a a webkit nightly the element below should pulse If you are not using one of these browsers, you can just enjoy [...]

Since I don’t drive, I really appreciate ways to mooch rides from the suckers who do.  An article in the New York Times talks about two apps that might just help me get around if I hadn’t given Brendan my iPhone to trade up to an Android G1. The first one, a little bit of [...]