Talking about Trapster

I was interviewed today by our local Fox station about Trapster, which I wrote about last year. I had some challenges making it work at first, because I did not have a 3G phone at the time and there were few users in my area. Now I have a 3G phone and Trapster seems to be getting lots of publicity, which leads to more users, which means meaningful data, which, along with a well-thought out feature set, leads to a great application. We road trip to Seattle to the west and to the Gulf Coast to the east, and Trapster would come in very handy in those small towns where the speed limit drops precipitously. So, consider me a convert.

Trapster lets you report speed traps, people slow down, everybody wins

I just signed up for Trapster, a free application for your cell phone or PDA that lets you report speed traps - and alerts you to speed traps that others report. I am going to download it to my iPhone and see how well it works. You call an 800 number to report any speed traps. Your alert is relayed to the PDAs and phones of people in the vicinity. They can rate the reliability of the reports. You can add it to Google Maps using Loki. It is an intriguing use of presence awareness.