Friday, October 19. 2007

More Dash Hype

The Wired folks are at the mapping block at Web 2.0. They explain the lastest goodies for the Internet-enabled Dash navigation system that's been all talk for some months. The new stuff: integrating mashups/rss feeds.

Dash offers each of its users a personalized web page to manage what shows up on your Dash device. The duo demonstrated how you could run a Craigslist search for "open houses" in San Francisco, grab the RSS link for the search results, then paste it into your MyDash profile.

The next time you're in your car, you'll see an option to show those realtime search results in the device's menu. Click on an open house you want to go see and Dash will show you how to get there.

Users can pull in any kind of mashup that uses geodata, as well. Grab the RSS feed from any geodata mashup -- like a map of yoga studios in LA from Platial or a listing of jazz shows on Upcoming.org -- and add it to your profile page.

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What is that mashup? I have heard about it for the first time

#1 Hormoner (Link) on 2007-10-20 06:23 (Reply)

Are there any geodata besides Platial and Upcoming.org?

#2 Refugee (Link) on 2007-10-20 09:00 (Reply)

Actually, Adena -- this truly is one of the more functional applications for navigation that I've seen in awhile. I think the 'hype', as you put it, is more than justified in consideration of the ability for it to not only provide functionality to the end-user (that's MEANINGFUL), but as well as become a platform for more accuracy in crowd-sourcing traffic analysis.

The crowd-sourcing concept alone is a huge improvement in this space -- but hey, I'll take the added (and extremely meaningful) user functionally with crowd-sourced gathering and analysis anyday of the week.

'Hype' warranted, because it's that good and show more promise than what most even offer.

Of course, I can see where some of the Real Estate people would be a bit bent over this, considering it gets around various proprietary and patent issues... But, I digress.

#3 Daniel (Link) on 2007-10-22 19:46 (Reply)

I apologize. I used the term "hype" innappropriately. I meant to highlight that the product, about which we've heard so much, is not yet available. The company will begin taking orders in January.

http://www.twice.com/article/CA6492945.html

#4 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2007-10-23 06:38 (Reply)

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