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CabEasy.com - Up and running ?

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It’s the last day of a 3 weeks run. I’ve been working on evenings and week ends on finalizing the development of CabEasy.com and integrating some very early feedback. I had a small to do list that I detail below, and have been able to work my way through it (besides some friends visiting and my girlfriends being in New York for a while !).

And tonight, I am done !

Here was my to-do-list:

Change name (see my posts here):
Design a logo (see my post here):
Change hosting provider (analysis on connection times, check here):
Update DNS info on Dreamhost:
Redesign web site with new format (this has been the most difficult I guess, but I am now pretty good with CSS formatting, see my post here):
Clean the site header file:
Verify contact form:
Send email alerts in html format:
Redo the form validation in Ajax with the jQuery library:
Add Delete a trip function:
Add “twitter your trip” function (see my post here):
Improve search on home page:
Add contact / bug / new feature form:
Add UserVoice or GetSatisfaction feedback widget (finally opted for UserVoice):
Add a test on TripDetails to see if trip exists and is still active:
Test twitter + delete functions online:
Set an automatic backup of the database:
On the “Save new trip” page, add fading tool-tips (based on QuirksMode):
Create a Screencast of the service:
Rewrite the “FAQ” page:

I’m now ready for some heavy crash testing, and you’re all welcome to help !

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I have a plan.

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I’ve been writing more and more about CabEasy.com (new name for ShareMyCab.net), and there is a reason to that: over the last month, I’ve spent a lot of week-ends and evenings working on it. I should be able to release a first version soon.

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Redesigning CabEasy.com: CSS DIV Positioning madness … !

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With the release of the final beta version of CabEasy.com (new name of ShareMyCab.net) planned early November, I started revamping the design of the website.

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ShareMyCab - Some logos ?

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Few days ago, I posted a list of names that I shortlisted for the new ShareMyCab name. Thanks to all of you for the facebook messages, the comments and the emails to give me your opinion. The final shortlist comes down to 3 names:

Cab2Share.com
CabEasy.com
101Cab.com

Until now, I haven’t made a final choice. I figured, if I could visualize it, it could help. So this afternoon I have been playing to create some potential amateurish logos. I’m “writing out loud” what I think about each name and I hope that when I’ll be finished with that post, my choice will be made !

Cab2Share.com

The name is good because it’s explicit … but for an english speaking person only. Non-english won’t have any problem with “share” but the “2″ - to be read or understood as “to” - won’t make it … If a french speaking person would tell about my site, I guess she would literally say “cab two share dot com” and then would have to explain the 2 = to thing. The first logo is interesting though …

CabEasy.com

CabEasy is a good name. It’s not the most sexiest of all, but it’s easy to remember, and applicable to all languages. And it’s short, 7 letters. CabEasy.com flows, and it also makes some sense. Not the core business (sharing cabs to save money and protect the environment) but it relates to cabs, and to my process (that I try to make super easy). CabEasy.com. Cab Easy dot com: share cabs, save money, be green. As easy as that. Like it.

101Cab.com / 5050Cab.com

101Cab.com means nothing. 5050Cab.com means cheaper cabs because you’re sharing the fare. But ShareMyCab is not only about cheaper cabs, it’s also about a greener environment. However, both of them are easy to say and remember. And they flow just right. The only thing is that the “101″ expression makes sense in english, not in other languages. The 5050Cab.com logo looks good though.

Well I’ve reach the end of that post. And I think the choice will be … CabEasy.com. I’ll leave myself - and you !!! - a few days before signing off on it ;)

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ShareMyCab - Crowdsourcing for a new name: your opinion?

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ShareMyCab.net is a soon-to-be officially beta-launched service that allows taxi travelers to share their cab rides. You might have been reading it on this blog. I am moving forward on the development of a beta version, i.e. a version that could be used and marketed for real.

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ShareMyCab.net - Crowdsourcing for some feedback?

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Two weeks ago, I laid down some ideas and thoughts about user interface for ShareMyCab.net. I finished the form that allows to save a new taxi trip, and which is the center-piece of the site.

I’m an not a professional / full-time developer, so I’m quite proud of the behind-the-scene javascript that handles the form.But now i need help to make sure it works fine and fulfills a simple goal: I want the script to understand the user however the user understands the form.

Please help me crash test the form and send your opinion/feedback by mail or in the comments below!

Thank you !

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User interface thoughts for ShareMyCab.net

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It’s been just about a month that I started testing the alpha of ShareMyCab. The feedback from my friends was very positive … when speaking about the concept. Speaking about the execution, they were, well …. let’s see, “polite” would be the term (I guess). To say things clearly: it sucks. And they pointed their finger at two things:

the fact that there are two forms to save cab trips; one if the trip is from or to an airport and another if the trip is from two random points,
the fact that each of the two forms were not clear, complicated, cumbersome, uneasy to understand, … Continue reading ‘User interface thoughts for ShareMyCab.net’

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GeoIP: from an IP to a location + Dreamhost fopen limitations …

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Geo Location from IP address

The home page of ShareMyCab displays a basic map, centered on New York for the beta.

You can change it to your city by simply re-centering the map on it but one of the features of my roadmap was to personalize the map for each user. If you’re in Tokyo, London, Paris or New York, the Google map would be automatically centered on the city you are browsing from.

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Reduce the greenhouse gas emissions with CabEasy.com

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From the original post here: Minor improvements on CabEasy.com (ex ShareMyCab.net), but improvements that count !First: when watching the details of a trip, you can now see the quantity of CO² emission of that specific trip, and how sharing this trip would reduce that quantity. The numbers, for the moment, are based on the average consumption of a 2006 Ford Crown Victoria and calculated thanks to TerraPass. Continue reading ‘Reduce the greenhouse gas emissions with CabEasy.com’

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2nd release of ShareMyCab.net: Dashboard + Messages

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As indicated on the ShareMyCab blog:

It’s been 5 days since the initial beta launch last week of Share My Cab.

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Laurent Kretz