The Living Labs Global Mobility Report

Views on the market for mobility, or those digital services that can really change our lives.

Favorites and More from Peter Corbett of iStrategy Labs

What’s your day job? PC: I’m a strategist – consulting clients on how to connect with people in the digital and physical world. Favorite iStrategy Lab Project to Date? PC: It would have to be Apps for Democracy. We’ve really changed the way DC government procures technology and relates to their citizen innovators. Favourite application [...]

Hands Free Cell-phone Ban for Bikers

National Public Radio reports that as of the 1st of November, Philadelphia will extend a ban on handheld cell phones to non-motorists—principally, cyclists, skateboarders and inline skaters.  The new legislation is the most restrictive of its kind in the nation.  Those caught violating the regulations will subject themselves to weighty fines upwards of 150 U.S. [...]

From ‘Hack the System’ to ‘Apps for Democracy’

Talk to anybody involved in public policy within municipal governments today and they are likely to talk in laudatory terms (perhaps tinged with envy) about Washington D.C.’s  arguably brilliant Apps for Democracy Contest (APPS08).  What exactly is the APPS08 initiative? Peter Corbett, the iStrategy Labs founder and CEO and the architect behind this initiative, gives [...]

Parking Postcards, NYC

If you live in Manhattan, own a car and can barely afford a parking-spot sized space for your head much less for your car—then you most often enjoy a bi-weekly ritual that some people might only refer to as the ‘Street Cleaning parking shuffle’ or ‘Musical Chairs for Cars.’ That is, two times a week [...]

More Interactive Mobile Gaming, NYC

This May I met up with James Tunick of Studio IMC and Map Cidy at New York’s Mobile Monday meeting. Tunick’s mobile technology and social software has been used in Times Square, Major League Baseball stadiums, museums, movie theater screens, & cities across the U.S.. Mr. Tunick has worked with clients such as the US [...]

Via the New Republic, Edward Glaeser on Jane Jacobs

What a City Needs, Read it here.

Booking Urban Parking with SpotScout. A review.

I wanted to test SpotScout usability. So for kicks, I created an account on SpotScout this last weekend and went digitally hunting for a parking spot in Boston’s south end for a Sunday afternoon space.  I had my pick from a private residential driveway (the most expensive option)  and a public parking facility (the more [...]

The Dreaded Hunt and the Spotscout Solution

Spotscout CEO and Founder, Andrew Rollert, becomes animated when asked about his company.  Over the course of our conversation, his sentences dipped and hooked, weaving a narrative about traffic patterns, consumer habits, Newton’s laws of motion and spatial exchange.  As we spoke, his voice took on a tone of undeterred, optimistic confidence so magnanimous, I [...]