Archive for December, 2009

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Telling time with open realtime data

This past weekend, I had a little bit of time to work on a hobby project: This is my Sony Ericsson MBW-150 bluetooth watch, showing the next few SF Muni bus arrival times for a nearby stop. The code to fetch the arrival times is running on my Droid phone, and communicating with the watch [...]

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Thursday, December 10th, 2009

City-Go-Round, a new transit app directory and open data site

This site has been in semi-retirement for a while, as I focus more on things like the Transit Developers group, but I wanted to tell you about a site that just launched: City-Go-Round is in many ways a successor this site’s own Headway Wiki, in that it makes it easier to find transit apps that [...]

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