#ridejoy

Ung feeling kanina na habang papauwi kayo after ng mass at sadyang natutulog kana sa sasakyan dahil alam mong uuwi na kayo,magugulat ka na lang na iba ung dinaanang daan ni Mama. Ang saya lang kase nag-Marquee kame kanina. haha :D.. Lord, answered my prayers! God's Speed talaga... Insta FAMILY DAY! The best part is ung inikutan namin ung buong parking lot kasi di namin makita ung EXIT!! Haha. Tapos nakakita pa ako ng cutieepatootie little girl! Good Vibes siya promise.. Nawala ung stressed ko. English speaking kase tapos nagpabili siya ng Chupachups, Ako naiingit din ako nagpabili narin kay Mama. Kaso hindi siya "Pink and Purple" yan kase ung gusto nung bata kanina ea! Hahaha

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"its been a happy Sunday for me, after a heavy week due to that plate! "

Users of Ridejoy, the online ride-sharing service, can now take it on the road. The company released an iPhone app today to complement its Web site, which, like a motor version of CouchSurfing, matches travelers who need rides with drivers who have space in their cars.

“We wanted to make something that you can do on the go rather than use at the computer,” said Jason Shen, a founder of the site, “make that spontaneity part of Ridejoy’s experience.”

Mr. Shen and his partners introduced Ridejoy in September 2011 after finding success the month before with the pilot site BurningManRides.com, a marketplace for people driving to the annual arts festival in Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

I slept in until 10 this morning.  That felt good.  My body needed the rest.  Working 80 plus hours a week is incredibly tough.  It's virtually impossible when you fail to get enough sleep.

For once, I took it fairly easy.  I abandoned my idea to build a food truck app because a little more digging revealed that there is in fact already a food truck app that services San Francisco.   It's called Trux Map.  Instead I spent the day learning about UIView and UIScrollView from the Big Nerd Ranch iOS Programming Guide.  I learned that every view is an instance of UIView or one of it's subclasses and that views exist in a hierarchy.  They can have subviews and those subviews can have subviews and so on.  UIScrollView is a subclass of UIView.  They're typically used for views that are larger than the screen.  Using a scroll view allows the user to pan, page, scroll, and zoom.  I practiced implementing a hierarchy of views as well as scroll views.

I spent the evening at the Ridejoy launch party.  I had a lot of fun and met some awesome people.  I didn't get a chance to speak with any the founders at length but I really like what they're doing.  Ridejoy is making it easy to ride share.  They're taking something that could be scary and making it friendly.  One way they're doing that is by utilizing facebook as a sort of reputation system.  If you login via facebook, you can see if you have any mutual friends with other users, which can help alleviate a lot of the worry about getting in the car with a stranger.  Another challenge they had to overcome is matching users up.  Simply listing all of the ride share opportunities from a given city would be too overwhelming.  And yet the chances of finding a perfect match (two or more people with identical requested departure times and departure/arrival cities) is slim.  Thus they had to create an algorithm to match people intelligently.  

Of equal importance is the user experience.  Visitors need to feel comfortable and trusting of the site because those feelings will carry over to the usage of the service.  The flow of the site needs to be such that the user is eased into the process without feeling overwhelmed, lost, or pressured to enter personal information before they're ready.  Ridejoy has clearly been designed with all of these things in mind.  It makes it easy to look around without signing in.  And yet it subtly encourages you to do so with the promise of seeing if you have mutual friends with other users.  It's all very well designed.  

meet new peeps, save dough, help the earth.

http://ridejoy.com/

Got a road trip coming up? Why not use Ridejoy to save yourself the gas money and maybe make a new friend in the process? The site’s a lot like apartment/room-share site AirBnB. It leverages the power of the web to connect people so that they can use their resources more efficiently — and, of course, save money in the process.

Here’s how it works. You post an upcoming road trip on the site, name your price (sharing the cost of the gas, say) and see who’s interested. Like AirBnB, connections to your real Facebook profile and reviews by others who have met you through the site help establish that you’re not an ax murderer or whatever.

Let us know if you use the site. 

Friends, I'm happy to say that I've officially sold out. Some witticisms I wrote crafted have been used by the people at Ridejoy for a goofy little website they put together. All the funny ones are mine, all the bad puns are from Margot Leong and her cronies.