Two Freebies for My Droogies

Here are two freebie ideas I hope someone does something with.

(1) Give all taco trucks a GPS unit, aggregate all the live data on some web backend, and then display it in some sort of a google maps mashup that’s phone-friendly (e.g. SMS your address, and it SMS’s you back driving directions from your address). Show me a single late night hispanohablante clubber who wouldn’t be all over esta mierda!

(NPR had a special a while back on a website that mapped out various taco eateries, but I’m really like to see something more real time that’s interactive with people with cell phones who want late night eating options.)

(2) Take all of the major datacenters in the United States (e.g. in SoCal, you’d take Hosting.com, One Wilshire, Savvis, etc) and then make, say, a wiki entry around each one that tells you about local eating and parking options. So, at One Wilshire, you might put The Pantry and then note that it costs $1 to park and that you may have to compete with people coming from The Derby. You might also note caffeine and parking options in the area, as well as primo parking spots for when you (a) don’t want to spend very much money, or (b) need to unload a lot of gear but don’t want to pay the $30 or whatever to park in the underground areas.

(Perhaps one of the first places you start with is some of the major carrier hotels that companies like CRG West own)