April 12, 2005
New travel helpers: Google Local and RideFinder
Here are a few new travel gee-gaws to keep your eye on as they get going.
Google Ride Finder lets you log on and find the closest ride to where you are. Unfortunately the New York offerings thus far only include SuperShuttle, which I can't imagine would do you any good unless you're at the airport and wondering if a shuttle might be near your terminal. However, I clicked to JFK and found that you can indeed look and see whether there is a shuttle at each terminal's arrival or departure area. Though when I tried on my cell phone, Google said I needed to enable Javascript to see the map. (Link found via E-Media Tidbits.)
Also, the New York Times' David Pogue today writes about Google's new mobile local search function. In the What box, type in what you're looking for, like "Italian restaurant." In the Where box, put your Zip code (or city and state). Click search, and boom — Google shows you the Yellow Pages and Web results, in a list and even on a map (which you can scroll or zoom).
By highlighting a result, you can click to place a phone call to that place, or get driving directions from your current location. Access the new page at mobile.google.com/local.
And finally, engadget and the San Francisco Chronicle have written about Interactive Taxi, a New York company that puts computers in the backs of cabs for riders to use for free to browse info on local restuarants, news, and TV programs. Thus far they're only operating in Chicago and Boston, but if the company is based here, you can guess they're trying to get them here, too.
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Electronic city guides: Vindigo, HopStop, Rough Guide
April 12, 2005 10:43 AM in Techology
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