Social Transit Research Lab

The Social Transit Research Lab (stArlab) is an open source effort to gather ideas about the socially-connected, socially-conscious transportation of the future. We produce Weeels, the free cab-sharing smartphone app for NYC.

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March 2, 2010 at 10:54pm
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some thoughts on the FUTURE

Some poignant points about the future for social transit thinking, from Dennis C:

I gave a talk at the Soho House today about interesting trends I’m seeing.  I thought it was a Q&A session so I didn’t prepare anything, but then they asked us to talk for 10 minutes on THE FUTURE so I jotted down some notes real quick.

Posting this as a note to myself to write a blog post on some of this stuff (er, after SXSW when I am not working 1000 hours a day)

1.  social going mobile going local

2.  game mechanics driving behavioral change

3.  virtual good existing in physical space

4.  phones becoming better listeners

5.  personal informatics

6.  brands using geo to advertise = outdoor advertising 2.0

7.  using twitter to drive collective experience

8.  the benefits that come with 2500 twitter followers