Does Your GPS Tweet?
As the title asks, does your GPS tweet? If you’ve got a Dash Express, it sure does!
We opened our API just a few short weeks ago and the response has been amazing - with a couple dozen applications already built. Mike Tuckman and Michael Muni have been leading the Dash customer application development charge and even launched DashApps.net to spotlight the work of our community.
We’ve got speed traps, we’ve got weather, we’ve got radio info… But my favorite Dash App has to be Twitter. Maybe it’s not the most practical and I wouldn’t suggest firing it up while your car is in motion, but what other automotive GPS will alert your friends as to your location (perhaps, when you’re running late) and pull down their status updates? The customizable app can selectively tweet any combination of a personal message and your address, street, city, state, latitude, longitude, plus links to Yahoo! or Google maps. Additionally, the 20 most recent tweets of those you follow can be pulled down to the GPS.
This the flexibility of an open API and this the power of a two-way device. If you’ve got a clever application in mind for our platform, drop us a line at developer@dash.net .
June 17th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Crave. Crave. Craaaaaaaaaaave. Oh my god, I WANT.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Oh wow, that is neat! I agree with Pistachio. Crave. Crave.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I would love to review this for profy. Do you have test units?
June 17th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I triple that emotion! Crave…
June 17th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I want one too.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Dave? That you, Dave?
June 17th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
my dash should arrive this week as a twitter addict and a developer, I’m very excited. Looking forward to brightkite integration as well.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:40 am
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June 18th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
In addition to the upcoming Brightkite DashApp, Fire Eagle is already integrated and up and running!
June 18th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Mike,
BK invite sent. Ooooh Fire Eagle is working. I’ll have to check that out.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
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June 21st, 2008 at 7:01 am
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June 23rd, 2008 at 10:58 am
[...] Dash Blog » Does Your GPS Tweet? - Dash Express, with its two-way Internet connectivity, allows for dramatic uses of GPS functionality, including tweeting current location. Should be doable on the 3G iPhone. [...]
June 24th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
[...] directing us through every turn. The latest technology, get your cell phone to “Tweet” like these guys got their GPS to do. The iPhone is about to come out and man I need that phone. Twitter is coming [...]
September 25th, 2008 at 1:34 am
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September 25th, 2008 at 10:27 am
This is a major win feature-wise. I am glad to see this innovation.
Nice blog.
April 4th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
[...] Tweets any combination of address, street, city, state, latitude, longitude, and can link to Yahoo! or Google maps. In addition, the 20 most recent tweets of those you follow can be pulled down to the GPS. More information can be found here. [...]
January 28th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Virtual GPS is a GPS simulator software. You can use it to simulate a GPS receiver unit connected to your system. It’s ideal when you need GPS input, but you have no signal or for development purposes.