Archives for September 2011

“Streetview Updating by Hertz” is a project that is utilizing crowdsourcing to help Google keep their streetview maps up-to-date. With a fleet of over 500,000 cars, Hertz has the equipment and consumer base to equip their rental cars with camera equipment in order to continually update Google’s Street View maps. The initiative was started by […]

Looking for parking can be not only a hassle but a frustration that can sometimes lead to aggressive behavior, confusion and arguments. Parking in Motion, or PIM, is a smarter way to park – by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information with 500+ cities in the US, Canada and Europe. With PIM, you […]

Those that start nonprofits are passionate about their cause and goals, but may not be technologically savvy enough or not as dedicated to put forth a web presence that is as powerful as their mission. Bellstrike is a web platform opportunity for nonprofits to create and use web design with technology to ascertain funding so […]

Greplin wants to be the “search bar for your life”. By simply signing up for free and connecting your various application accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendars, Google Contacts and LinkedIn) you wait 20 minutes approximately for Greplin to start working, and then you can search for what you may think could […]

ViewRL aggregates the URL’s posted on your Twitter feed into a simple to view visual grid output that makes it easier to preview what you are about to click. ViewRL shows all videos, music, photographs and links that have been tweeted by others and provides a preview thumbnail to help you comprehend the tweet in […]

If you have ever looked for a place to live online you know the headaches and lack of UI consideration that these platforms have had in place for years. Yet we continue to use them because there aren’t many solid alternatives. Mapitat on the other-hand, created by Toronto’s Playground, is the easiest way to search […]

Don’t Fear the Internet is a place to go through a series of video based web tutorials for those that want to learn web design but are afraid of (what can be) evil HTML, CSS and PHP syntax. For any new budding designer, these languages can offer a steep learning curve and frustrations comparable to […]

Developed during last week’s hackday.tv, a 24 hour video hackday, Casey Pugh started the Music Video Genome aiming to be The Pandora of Music Videos. Powered by VHX, users search for any artist in any genre and the platform generates a personalized music video channel structured around the user’s selection. The project is in early […]

Remember those childhood build your own adventure stories that we took part in during reading time? Well how does that rebuild itself with today’s technologies? The Infinite Adventure Machine is a truly imaginative technological advancement that lets your own ideas work with computation to develop a truly unique fairy-tale plot on the spot. Designed by […]

We recently covered startup Two of Us, a social platform that lets you send a smile to a stranger and receive one back-which would hopefully make those involved a bit more cheerful. Now we wanted to share how a juice company is trying to make you smile and encourage brand awareness. Israeli juice company Prigat […]