Tag: TRAFFIC

When I was working in downtown Cleveland 12 years ago, I remember this amazing traffic cop that used to dance in the middle of the rush hour craziness to direct the vehicles. The guy sure made traffic management seem like a lot of fun. Fortunately for all of us, anyone that wants to give it a go can do it by playing Crash rather than throwing on a bright orange vest, grabbing a whistle, and ...

Everybody knows that Alexa, Compete, and other web services that track web site traffic are inherently flawed. Because they compile third party data instead of looking at your actual server data, you can never be sure that the statistics you're reading are accurate. But hey, if you really want to see whether Engadget is more popular than Gizmodo, they're the only game in town, right? Now there's ...

Just a few days after Microsoft rolled out a new traffic prediction feature for Windows Live Maps, Google has followed suit with traffic predictions for Google Maps. Both services use historical traffic data to predict likely congestion points and travel time in the future. But there are two major differences: Windows Live Maps will suggest the best driving directions for avoiding traffic, ...

Web site ranking service Alexa has long been one of the most used, and one of the least trusted ways to figure out how popular a web site is. That's because it's difficult to determine a site's actual traffic without access to the owner's private data. But Alexa's reliance on a small army of users who installed a browser toolbar had an obvious tendency to skew the results toward tech-heavy web ...

Over the past year or so, pretty much every major online mapping service has added some sort of real-time traffic detection system. But while these systems will let you know which roads to avoid, for the most part they don't do a great job of presenting you with alternatives. Now Microsoft has added a new technology called Clearflow to its Live Maps service which will let you choose a route ...

MapQuest has finally gotten around to adding a feature that Google Maps has had for over a year: real-time traffic info. When you search for a location or driving directions on MapQuest, all you have to do is click the traffic button in the upper left corner of the screen and all of the major roads will be highlighted with color codes showing the traffic conditions. One thing that MapQuest has ...

There's a neat little trick that lets you see how many people are subscribing to a site's RSS feed in Google Reader. All you have to do is fire up Google Reader, click the "Add Subscription" button and type a web site name or keyword. Google Reader will spit out a list of blogs and news sites along with the number of users who have subscribed to that site using Google Reader. These numbers are ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/DownloadSquad_On_the_road_and_at_home_with_Yahoo_Go_2_0'; Over the past few weeks DLS has had the chance to check out Yahoo's GO 2.0 application for mobile devices at home and on the go with a Blackberry 8800 and a Nokia 6126. So how did the application fare out? Is it worth having on your device? What were the benefits and downfalls? And what would we ...

You've got an appointment in Manhattan tomorrow, so you visit Google Maps and print out the driving directions today. (Don't ask why you're driving from Brooklyn into Manhattan, this is just hypothetical, OK?). You're going less than 10 miles, so it should only take about 23 minu...what??? Like most online mapping services, Google Maps calculates estimated travel times based on speed limits, not ...

Could we soon see some crazy new developments from Twitter? Maybe not, but we might see some increased usage. Twitter's cofounder Biz Stone recently said that Twitter is on the road to raising its first round of venture capital funding. Big news from a company who's traffic rate has leveled off, and is not yet profitable. Twitter has attracted about 226,000 unique visitors in May, compare that to ...

The New York State Department of Transformation has their Google on. They've created an intuitive Google Maps mashup that makes traveling through the state a little easier. A Real-time transportation status map plots live camera feeds, roadwork, critical incidents, road closures, weather or alerts, and traffic speeds. A legend on the left side of the map allows users to plot one topic at a time ...

Just when you thought the world of web analytics was a little bland, Basil arrives to spice things up a bit. Basil takes out the pages of raw web traffic data that we once had to sift through and analyze, and does all the hard work for us. They provide easy to use clean interface design [reminding us of Mint] to make it easier for figuring out what the popular pages of your website are, and what ...

Never be late again with real time streaming traffic on your mobile device. This way cool mobile traffic report from 3rd Dimension is a free application that lets users keep on top of real time traffic reports through live videos. The application will only run on compatible mobile devices like Blackberry's, Palm Treos, and Motorola RAZRs. Don't know how we missed this one, but it launched back in ...

dnScoop is an online tool that bunches many popular domain lookup tools into one. It's a location where users can check out the traffic of a particular domain, see the domains history, popularity, PageRank, count inbound links, and perhaps the coolest feature, get a site's dollar value report. Start off by entering your chosen URL, and then choose a category from the 10 supplied. dnScoop will ...

Google has added real-time traffic reports to Google Maps. Up until now, only mobile client users had access to traffic data. Traffic information is available for a limited number of locations at this point, but odds are if you live near a fairly well-populated city, (think New York, Portland, Salt Lake city), there's probably some data for your area. The interface is pretty simple. In fact, ...