December 19, 2004

Realtime Traffic on Yahoo!

A poster at Slashdot reports that Yahoo! Maps will soon be offering realtime traffic conditions on their maps. I'm of mixed emotions about this.

  • It sounds really cool, in a geeky sort of way (and ironic for me personally, given that for 98% of my daily commute time, "traffic" = "snowplow or tractor"--useless tech is the geekiest tech), but
  • Like the world really needs people mounting PocketPCs on their dashboards so they have something even more distracting than a cellphone to look at while they're driving.

Let me end with a 90-degree tangent by saying that I hate the fact that writing anything about Yahoo! requires me, through its devious use of punctuation, to act as if I'm I'm really excited to be talking about Yahoo!

I have nothing against Yahoo! personally, but I'm this close to automatically replacing the "!" with "(you suck)" every time I write it, just to subvert their little plot. Maybe I can start a meme: Yahoo(you suck).

It's got legs, I think; it's probably even a trademark infringement or something. (Note to self: Check on whether or not Fair Use-type provisions exist for trademarks.)

[via Slashdot]

Posted by johndan at December 19, 2004 12:29 AM | TrackBack