Comments on: Gas Tracker http://www.cognition.ca/2008/05/gas-tracker.html Balls-in-the-air Entrepreneurship and Juggling. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:30:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.cognition.ca/2008/05/gas-tracker.html/comment-page-1#comment-181 admin Tue, 13 May 2008 08:46:38 +0000 http://www.cognition.ca/?p=69#comment-181 We've actually already got support for multiple vehicles, but the UI was really ugly so we left it off for the launch. Yes, and TAGS too - using the #tag syntax most twits are fond of. Yes, vehicles can be shared by users (at least in the data model), and the data graphed per vehicle instead of per user. I like the pub-sub feed for public "gas" idea - we're also going to make sure that gastracker can handle @replies as well as direct messages, so that people can keep it public if they want. A question for you - we've thought of using Amazon Mechanical Turk to process simple cell-phone snapshots of the odometer / gas pump, but figured it didn't really save the user any time. What do you think? We’ve actually already got support for multiple vehicles, but the UI was really ugly so we left it off for the launch. Yes, and TAGS too – using the #tag syntax most twits are fond of.

Yes, vehicles can be shared by users (at least in the data model), and the data graphed per vehicle instead of per user.

I like the pub-sub feed for public “gas” idea – we’re also going to make sure that gastracker can handle @replies as well as direct messages, so that people can keep it public if they want.

A question for you – we’ve thought of using Amazon Mechanical Turk to process simple cell-phone snapshots of the odometer / gas pump, but figured it didn’t really save the user any time. What do you think?

]]> By: Jesse Andrews http://www.cognition.ca/2008/05/gas-tracker.html/comment-page-1#comment-180 Jesse Andrews Mon, 12 May 2008 22:10:11 +0000 http://www.cognition.ca/?p=69#comment-180 Twitter has a jabber/pub-sub feed of the public timeline so you can get all public utterances of the word "gas" (or something like that) This looks pretty cool. 2 questions: 1) can you bind two twitter accounts - so my wife and I can both update a single "account", since whoever is driving will probably add gas if it is running low ;) 2) can you have "Tags" or something so that I can track my scooter separately than my car Twitter has a jabber/pub-sub feed of the public timeline so you can get all public utterances of the word “gas” (or something like that)

This looks pretty cool.

2 questions:

1) can you bind two twitter accounts – so my wife and I can both update a single “account”, since whoever is driving will probably add gas if it is running low ;)

2) can you have “Tags” or something so that I can track my scooter separately than my car

]]> By: Mandell http://www.cognition.ca/2008/05/gas-tracker.html/comment-page-1#comment-179 Mandell Mon, 12 May 2008 21:47:25 +0000 http://www.cognition.ca/?p=69#comment-179 Could this be used/extended to track personal vs. business use for your vehicle? Can it track usage for multiple vehicles? I'm picturing having text messages replace the tedious logging and calculations that I have to do every year for our two vehicles that we use for business and personal use, in addition to tracking the costs and efficiency of the vehicles. Could this be used/extended to track personal vs. business use for your vehicle? Can it track usage for multiple vehicles? I’m picturing having text messages replace the tedious logging and calculations that I have to do every year for our two vehicles that we use for business and personal use, in addition to tracking the costs and efficiency of the vehicles.

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