I use Google Maps all the time, and not just for driving, but (mostly) for transit directions as well. Most of the time Google is pretty good at getting me where I’m going. Except ...

When you’re sick and have to go to a walk-in clinic, waiting for hours is really the last thing you want to be doing. If you have kids (either as the sick ones or in tow), yeah ...

If you’re a business that wants to capitalize on Facebook Places, Gowalla, Foursquare, Yelp and all the other location based services you face two big challenges: claiming your ...

How many times have you needed a taxi, called and it never showed? Or tried hailing a taxi on the street and it seemed that you were in a black hole of cabs? Yeah, that’s exactly ...

As Farmville is spreading to Japan, social apps (games mostly) are growing with no end in sight. The question is, then, for app makers: How do you get more traffic to your app? Not ...

I know I hang out in a pretty geeky crowd, but it seems that a lot of businesses today depend on their servers being up. Generally we pull this off with server monitoring tools and ...

Ready to book that awesome whale watching tour or bungie jump or something else outdoors? Yeah, just like OpenCal, XKey is working on a system for activities providers to help you book ...

How many times have you had just a minute to make an appointment, like for a haircut or get your car fixed or whatever and you couldn’t get the place on the line? Then when you ...

Next up in our series of “In their own words” interviews for Launch Party 10 is Foodtree. Here is the elevator pitch version of what they do: Foodtree—Foodtree helps ...

Hi, I’m Tris and I write books. And I’m pretty excited about the coming age of ebooks and the potential of Google Editions. According to the WSJ, Google Editions could be ...