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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:59:59 +0000

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Searching The Vancouver Public Library Catalog using Amazon | eaves.ca — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:15:18 +0000

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5 Questions with David Eaves - Kontent Creative Group Inc. — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:55:59 +0000

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By: awsamuel

awsamuel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:39:42 +0000

As the beneficiaries of the Notification & Analog Group Garbage Ejection Reminder service depicted above, I have to warn you that VanTrash lacks several essential features that my mother currently offers.
1. Failsafe: my mom likes to perform surprise checks at our house on garbage day to make sure we remembered. If we don't, she does it herself the next time. Can VanTrash do the same?
2. Observation: when my mom takes out the trash for us, she typically offers insights on the volume of wine bottles in our neighbours' trash, the person who threw out the perfectly decent-looking sofa, etc. Can I suggest incorporating Google Streetview imagery to offer similar levels of insight?
3. In addition to garbage reminders, my mom lets us know about upcoming PD days, tax deadlines, lack of food in fridge, etc. Can I suggest enhancing the VanTrash notifications to include notifying you about everything you should know about, ideally via Google Wave?

By: davedonovan22

davedonovan22 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:13:27 +0000

Hi David - congrats on the interview. I checked out the vantrash site --- I like the look of it.

It struck me that it would be cool to use that sort of map feature for the Queen's Ghetto, where students
could maybe give their house a condition rating, post rent, etc... to create some accoutability for the
crappy landlords there. That way, students could determine if they were getting a bad deal. It could also
be useful for say second year students that are looking for places... hopefully with the result of exposing
crappy landlords and avoiding renting from them (or forcing them to raise their standards to compete
with better landlords by giving people more information to judge the house they're looking at)

I don't have the technical background to start up anything like that, but it seems to me like somebody should.

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