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50 Best Web 2.0 Travel Tools includes SpotScout

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:42:00 +0000

Travel tools on the Web have continued to evolve, taking in all that Web 2.0 has to offer, and enhancing the ability to share information, work creatively and increase collaboration between users and companies.

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SpotScout part of the Traffic Technology Rage in Cambridge

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:49:00 +0000

Something in the Cambridge water must be driving Cantabridgians to apply technology to traffic. Cambridge is home to traffic-focused companies like parking spot finder SpotScout Inc., forming a miniature transportation technology cluster.

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Can SpotScout Take the Pain out of Parking?

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:33:00 +0000

Finding parking in a busy urban area like Boston can feel like a high-stakes game of musical chairs—except that when the music ends and every parking spot is filled, there are still tens of thousands of people driving in circles.

SpotScout is designed to give users an advantage in the cut-throat competition for parking spots.

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SpotScout Wants to Be the eBay of Parking Spaces | Inc Magazine

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:12:00 +0000

Company: SpotScout Owners: Andrew Rollert, 33 Location: Cambridge, Mass. Employees: 7 2006 Revenue: 0 2007 Projected Revenue: $2.6 million

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Parking Space Etiquette | By Peter Post

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:11:00 +0000

Q Yesterday, I was looking for a parking space at a mall when I spotted a car pulling out that was going the same direction I was. Across from me was another car driving in the opposite direction, also looking for a space.

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SpotScout on CNet

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:01:00 +0000

Parking relief - Dial a space from your cellphone. | Laura Daily | USA TODAY

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:00:00 +0000

Looking for a parking spot? High-tech help is on the way from cellphones, GPS, satellites and the Web. Let technology help you find an open spot for your car. Drivers in U.S. cities soon will have several new ways to find parking without circling the block for hours...

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SpotScout on MSNBC's Today Show

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:59:00 +0000

Our apologies to those we informed that SpotScout was being showcased on Tuesday. The Today Show decided to push it back one day at very short notice. If you missed it you can follow the link below and view the segment online.

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Startup eyes online marketplace for open parking spaces

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:57:00 +0000

A century after the automobile hit it big, finding an empty parking spot requires drivers to summon the skills cavemen once used to hunt: Scan the horizon for your quarry, then bag it before someone else zeroes in on your quarry.

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Online marketplace for open parking spaces | Fox News

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:56:00 +0000

Analysts say the fledgling venture by the Cambridge-based company could successfully capitalize on the growing popularity of mobile Web-surfing and big-city parking frustrations.

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TOP 10 AUTOMOTIVE 2006 | Springwise

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:53:00 +0000

Springwise brings you the best new business ideas of 2006.

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What price parking?

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:52:00 +0000

A fledgling service that would let people find and reserve parking spaces via their cellphones could make life easier for those who use it. Less clear is whether the system, to be launched by the Cambridge firm SpotScout.com, will help the city as a whole. For there is more to parking than merely parking...

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Tech Watch: Cell Phones May Find Parking Spaces | Edmunds.com

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:51:00 +0000

A startup company called SpotScout is about to launch an innovative new service that would let drivers search for a parking space using their computer and cell phones with access to the Internet.

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Searching for a parking spot? Soon, it'll be online | Matt Viser | Globe

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:50:00 +0000

A new Cambridge company is planning to launch a service that would allow drivers to hunt for parking spaces using their cellphones. A kind of eBay for parking spots, the service will be an online market for anything from driveways that private property owners want to lease for a few hours to empty spaces at garages and curbside metered spots that are about to become vacant.

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Searching for a parking spot? Soon, it'll be online | Matt Viser | Globe

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:50:00 +0000

Sold: 1 open-air parking space in the Back Bay for $250,000 | Boston Globe

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:49:00 +0000

A home for a car may cost a small fortune in Boston. As parking spaces go, it's nice enough. While it's outdoors, the smooth brick paving is immaculate. But is it worth $250,000? That's what an anonymous buyer paid in April for a prized spot tucked in the alley behind 31-33 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay -- breaking the city's record price for a parking space and underscoring the difficulty residents have scoring a spot downtown.

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For Those in Paris About to Park, a Service That Tells Them Where | The New York Times | J.Mullen

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:49:00 +0000

PARIS, Nov. 19 — A service starting next month may help soothe the nerves of harried Parisian drivers: it could help them locate a nearby parking spot using a cellphone or GPS navigation device.

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Forget park and ride, try dial and park | International Herald Tribune

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:48:00 +0000

PARIS: A service starting in Paris next month is designed to make life somewhat easier for harried drivers by allowing them to find out, in real time, whether there are parking spaces available nearby by using their cellphones or GPS navigation devices.

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In Certain Circles, Two Is a Crowd | The New York Times | Stephanie Rosenbloom

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:47:00 +0000

CHANCES are that in the last week someone has irritated you by standing too close, talking too loud or making eye contact for too long. They have offended you with the high-pitched shrill emanating from the earphones of their iPod or by spreading their legs unnecessarily wide on a packed subway car.

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Forget Circling Around the City -- You'll Soon Be Able to Look For Parking Online | Edmunds.com

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:46:00 +0000

Snippet: Possibly the most innovative idea for helping drivers park their cars comes from SpotScout, a Massachusetts company that is creating an online marketplace where people can trade information about available parking places and even rent out their own driveways.

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Hub companies partner to help you find parking spaces.

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:45:00 +0000

Boston-based digital mapping company Tele Atlas NV and Cambridge-based mobile application provider SpotScout Inc. report they are partnering to develop a parking availability platform based on Tele Atlas' digital map data and the spread of social networking via digital media.

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SpotScout brings Web 2.0 to the parking lot | Cnet | Kevin Massey

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:44:00 +0000

"A new e-commerce company called SpotScout is enabling urban drivers to use the Web to find the nearest, cheapest, and (curiously) highest-rated parking spots near their destinations. The service enables drivers to reserve private parking spots from their computers before setting out or to use Web-enabled mobile devices to search for parking "departure times" at public spots on the fly."

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NPR | Day to Day

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:43:00 +0000

A new service will allow drivers to auction off information about when they will leave their parking spaces to other drivers looking for a spot to park. The online forum will also let people auction off their driveways. Andrew Rollert, CEO of SpotScout, the company that will connect drivers through mobile devices, talks with Madeleine Brand.

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SpotScout Online will find you a parking space | popgadget

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:42:00 +0000

Driving around in search of a parking space is never fun, but a new company is set to launch a parking spot locator service this fall. SpotScout is betting on a couple of new ideas to connect drivers through their cellphones.

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Can't Find Parking? Search SpotScout Online | Tech Web | Laurie Sullivan

noreply@blogger.com (Team SpotScout) — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:41:00 +0000

SpotScout Inc. wants to take the hassle out of finding a place to park a car in crowed cities where finding a space takes patience and luck. So, the company's founder Andrew Rollert, and applications development team, built a Web-based application to broker the transaction...

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