below are my thoughts on AMP’s taxi.com.br idea…
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It can become a mix of vans (as in more than one passenger) and cabs (passenger defines point A and B), using networks to calculate the most optimal source. After all, fixed stops & fixed schedules were needed before the age of constant communication.
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Check seamlessweb.com business plan: Customers use the web to order deliveries (credit card payment, better menu list, convenience) and restaurants don’t need to lock a line and pay employees to be available to call. It sits in the middle, helps both parties and gets a cut of the action.
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Same way with your taxi.com.br… I’ll send you a paper about it if j can find it, but here’s the happy path:

• Customer goes online (minimal website interface, good but not limited to iPhones) tells point A (where he is), point B (where he wants to be) and optionally, when (defaults to as soon as possible)
• customer receives total price, pays right away
• customer receives an sms telling the 5 min before van arrives (the driver has to inform the system, more on that later)
• customer picks the van, is told when it arrives to point B
• customer receives an email asking to rate the experience.

Price fluctuates based on van availability on the area a or b, traffic, reputation.
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The van is part of a club. It needs:

• initial checkup
• app installation fee (you sell)
• monthly fee (comm costs)

The app can be a simple beep with gps.
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The higher the ratings:

• lower the monthly fee
• better offers (daily commute pool, fixed A, B points)

The driver doesn’t have to negotiate payment or service. The system deals with it and offers customers from the nearest places (route optimization). The driver gets the fare, a cut going to the system (70-30?)
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Problems:

• legislation, lobbies
• quality of service
• do we count start or end time? End time is better, but we need to take traffic into account

Opportunities:

• airports, malls, any fixed point b
• daily commutes: customer pays monthly and can make minor adjustments (free prior 24h). You’re competing with cars!!!
• if overall cost is cheaper than car, with same benefits (control of a to b), market it as the green solution, find government grants

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Dix, Objeto Amarelo

brazilian industrial stuff, stolen from my older brother.
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soon…
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Audio Bullys has the editorial quality of a blog rant.
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soon…
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soon…

Schild is a brazilian dj and friend of mine, he released a new set on the interwebs, and i’m linking it here so I can grab it podcast-style.
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o cara tussiu
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this animation only makes sense if you’re a brazilian otaku. it made me LOL! :)
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newsmap changed its layout, now you can read all the headlines…
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for those new to it, newsmap is a google news interface, that shows the most visited news BIGGER and the least smaller, so it’s nice to have an overview picture of what people are talking about…
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you can also select diferent countries (sadly, brazil is not there) and categories (i switched off sports and entertainment right away).

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Originally uploaded by Betatester.

from woostercollective, a graffiti collective blog from the whole world.
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i’m amazed with flickr. cute interface, nice features, the right policy (releasing their API for free to any non-commercial project).
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i was getting worried about my picture collection growing impossibly big because of our new camera (it’s easy to get lost if you don’t index it wisely), but flickr is a good tool, both for image input (by web, mail, desktop app and bookmarklet) and output (groups, calendar, blog feature, this nice zeitgeist flash app on your left…).
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since brazilians are migrating from orkut to multiply, I’m preaching my fotolog friends to move to flickr.