The Inconvenient OnDemand & Micromobility Economy

In 2007, I posted this pic of Al Gore and me at Paragon restaurant on 2nd Street & Townsend in San Francisco. A few weeks back I was enjoying a coffee with friends before the San Francisco Giants ballgame when I noticed this tow truck removing the Revel scooter from 2nd Street.. It’s a local rule to clear traffic around the ballpark on game days for obvious reasons.

Having had my car towed from the Sansome Street in the city years ago, I know the $350++ fine awaits as per SFMTA. What is interesting is that the on demand economy sometimes doesn’t interact with the offline economy. I’ve seen Lime Bikes in trees and one in a creek in Menlo Park!

Some more work to do for the engineers at these companies …

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Apple Maps Listings Tips & Insights

Apple Maps Vans have been spotted around the Bay Area and our team of Quality Assurance testers put thousands of retail store NAPUs (Name, Address, Phone Number, URLs) into Apple Maps on a range of iPhones to verify the correct details. Across the board, 25% of listings are needing updates. That’s a lot! In many cases, Apple Maps have images from Yelp.

There is no central dashboard to manage listings en mass yet Apple do allow an easy confirmation process and report back with when updates are made. Something Google could learn from!

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Google Mobile Algorithm Update – 21 April 2015

We have been working furiously to get our client mobile websites compliant with Google before their 21 April 2015 algorithm update. Google are ruthless on websites that don’t comply to best practice page speed, user interface and design specifications they deem as being best practice.

The correct spacing between icons, viewport font sizes, download speed and browser compatibility on all mobile versions is important to ensure the website is ‘mobile friendly’.

Read the official announcement at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.at/2015/02/finding-more-mobile-friendly-search.html

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