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Posted by Jeannie Choe | 15 Aug 2007
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These days, carpooling doesn't designate you as a 12 year-old soccer-loving youth. Coordinating shared rides is fast becoming an eco-trend among urban dwellers, and right on time, car-sharing rental company Zipcar founder Robin Chase has a handy new service to facilitate it all, as reported at BusinessWeek. Her new venture, GoLoco.org, connects prospective drivers and passengers via existing social networking sites, currently working exclusively with Facebook. Chase truly believes carpooling to be of the best choices in sustainable transportation--steps above hybrid vehicles. "Sharing a ride doubles passenger miles per gallon," she says. "That's better than any fuel-efficient car."
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We developed the first carpool app on a location aware mobile platform called Carticipate. We gave a talk on carticipation at the Silicon Valley iPhone Develpers' Meetup in Palo Alto last week. We posted the vid on youtube here (be sure to select watch in high quality):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaphdB6Wafs