Tuesday 12 August 2008
Wednesday 6 August 2008
Register for CAR4SHARE closed trials.
Car4share - is the working name of our new application for meeting people to go places. As we are due to launch a closed testing phase, maybe I should let you know what it does.
Car4share is a niche social utility that matches people together on-line for going places off-line. The technology is different and will allow something to happen on the internet that we have yet to see, to date. A unique, user generated travel search facility, never seen before that we believe will spark something new and distruprive into peoples lives.
For the user, the site promotes the development of like minded communities and social groups around specific events and then the key issue of getting to these events. This can be done in groups or as an individual. Saving cost and meeting new, like minded people.
You can add journeys as a driver or lift requests as a passenger and search our database for users leaving from your area to go to a specific event or even just a random journey from one place to another.
We will be offering users the chance to hire transport and purchase tickets to already existing events.
The application is web based with 'car4share lite' being launched in 2009 for 'on the go' users which will link location based technology to your travel buddies for both searching and locating. We feel this to be a mission critical next phase in enabling mobile to support our strategy for taking on-line - off-line to a next generation on-line to 'on the go application'.
There is little doubt that car4share is needed globally. The site is Global. Rising fuel prices, Co2 emissions, the credit crunch and the rise of a niche user generated web 3 that will see the us moving from generic applications like facebook, (which provide good entartainment but it is argueable that they actually do anything for a person other than exhausting hours of time) to apps like car4share.
I am excited, but it's a long road.
I am realistic by the fact that I am not going to get the take up of generic social utilities such as facebook, bebo and skype. It is a niche product. But with niche products come lifetime longevity, and better and easily identified commercialisation routes. That is the aim. I think that tomorrow's people will be car4share users.
Why wouldn't they?
Eugene and I have been building this for 2 years and have scrapped 1 version of it already. Not exactly the best way to build a start up and something which is the complete opposite to the advice we give to all entrepreneurs which is the 'Get it out there quick' scenario.
It is quite possible, that the delay in getting car4share to market has been that we are spoilt with ideas and people at e-man. People that are always pushing continous improvement. We are also not short of resource and ability here which has never been a problem for us but largely the delay has been due to putting clients ahead of car4share for the last 12 months.
Clients such as zubka, wonga, moveme, parkatmyhouse, roomft, NHS, the 3 speed sites and 2 new as yet unnamed ventures due to launch later this year.
I just wanted all readers of this blog to know that car4share is really close now. We are launching the application in London which is being sponsored as it should be a great night.
You can register for closed testing and the launch party here:
Car4share is a niche social utility that matches people together on-line for going places off-line. The technology is different and will allow something to happen on the internet that we have yet to see, to date. A unique, user generated travel search facility, never seen before that we believe will spark something new and distruprive into peoples lives.
For the user, the site promotes the development of like minded communities and social groups around specific events and then the key issue of getting to these events. This can be done in groups or as an individual. Saving cost and meeting new, like minded people.
You can add journeys as a driver or lift requests as a passenger and search our database for users leaving from your area to go to a specific event or even just a random journey from one place to another.
We will be offering users the chance to hire transport and purchase tickets to already existing events.
The application is web based with 'car4share lite' being launched in 2009 for 'on the go' users which will link location based technology to your travel buddies for both searching and locating. We feel this to be a mission critical next phase in enabling mobile to support our strategy for taking on-line - off-line to a next generation on-line to 'on the go application'.
There is little doubt that car4share is needed globally. The site is Global. Rising fuel prices, Co2 emissions, the credit crunch and the rise of a niche user generated web 3 that will see the us moving from generic applications like facebook, (which provide good entartainment but it is argueable that they actually do anything for a person other than exhausting hours of time) to apps like car4share.
I am excited, but it's a long road.
I am realistic by the fact that I am not going to get the take up of generic social utilities such as facebook, bebo and skype. It is a niche product. But with niche products come lifetime longevity, and better and easily identified commercialisation routes. That is the aim. I think that tomorrow's people will be car4share users.
Why wouldn't they?
Eugene and I have been building this for 2 years and have scrapped 1 version of it already. Not exactly the best way to build a start up and something which is the complete opposite to the advice we give to all entrepreneurs which is the 'Get it out there quick' scenario.
It is quite possible, that the delay in getting car4share to market has been that we are spoilt with ideas and people at e-man. People that are always pushing continous improvement. We are also not short of resource and ability here which has never been a problem for us but largely the delay has been due to putting clients ahead of car4share for the last 12 months.
Clients such as zubka, wonga, moveme, parkatmyhouse, roomft, NHS, the 3 speed sites and 2 new as yet unnamed ventures due to launch later this year.
I just wanted all readers of this blog to know that car4share is really close now. We are launching the application in London which is being sponsored as it should be a great night.
You can register for closed testing and the launch party here:
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- Matt Hagger
- London & San Francisco
- I have a dream to pioneer a new web. We are at a turning point where the web is becoming intellegent enough to understand us. Mobile platform development along with rapid convergence into real time will enable a greater source of information to be created which can be used to devastating effect. Search as we know it will change forever and it is approaching faster that you realise. I want to help to pioneer the future of our world, through the dvelopment of exciting applications. I like to think big and I believe in the power of faith. This is just the beginning. . . . I am the founder of a project called Zkatter which I know will help to pioneer what I have just spoken about.. I am the Co-founder of London agency E-Man and the Co-Founder of a very exciting flex application for next generation business called www.bizk.it currently in pre-alpha. “What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands”
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