Archive for October, 2007
Tracking the fires in Southern California
Dash is headquartered in Northern California but we are very concerned about the fires spreading across Southern California. Thousands of homes have burned down, there are hundreds of thousands of evacuees, and every hour conditions are changing.
To help disseminate information in a timely and useful fashion a number of news outlets are utilizing Google [...]
Getting your web content in the car!
This morning Rob Currie and I demonstrated an open content platform that will allow consumers to get the content they want into the car. We showed support for GeoRSS and KML, which allows Dash users to bring all the great web map mashups into the car. We also showed API level integration with [...]
Read More..>>Web2.0 update
While the Web2.0 Summit didn’t swing into full gear until 3pm today, the first day of the conference seemed to be all about platforms and helping consumers get the important information they need when they need it. Myspace announced their platform, while Facebook talked about the developments they have seen in their exiting platform. [...]
Read More..>>Gearing up for the Web2.0 conference
We are gearing up for the Web2.0 conference this week. The theme of this year’s conference is “Discovering the Web’s Edge” and I am excited to say that Rob Currie and I will be presenting on Friday morning. We are gong to show some new capabilities that will demonstrate the power of a [...]
Read More..>>The Dash Driver Network/Community
As a subscription service that requires a new CE hardware purchase, we are expecting that a lot of our initial customers will be Gen Xers (like myself) and Baby Boomers. Most of them didn’t grow up posting pictures on their on-line profiles and now have busy lives and aren’t looking for new communities to join. [...]
Read More..>>Looking for an airport?
Search is a really hard problem. For years and years companies have been trying to perfect web search, largely from the context of a web browser. It turns out that results that might be useful in the context of a browser are not all that useful in context of a the car. [...]
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