{"id":852,"date":"2007-06-28T17:48:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T00:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/852\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T05:46:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T12:46:15","slug":"digg-facebook-carpool-the-first-useful-facebook-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/852\/","title":{"rendered":"Digg &#8211; Facebook Carpool: the First Useful Facebook Application"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/environment\/Facebook_Carpool_the_First_Useful_Facebook_Application\">Digg &#8211; Facebook Carpool: the First Useful Facebook Application<\/a> &#8211; so the Facebook application I&#8217;ve been working on made #1 on digg. not bad.<\/p>\n<p>By &#8220;working on,&#8221; I mostly mean giving my opinions and advice, as I don&#8217;t have the time to work on this right now, what with being back for another internship at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Someday I&#8217;ll write a longer post about this, but basically I&#8217;m really excited to be helping, even in a small way, with promoting a tool as fundamentally useful of this. Meeting new people, saving energy and money, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Carpooling is a chicken-and-egg problem app. It&#8217;s only useful if there are a lot of people in the same place using it as well. Before being dugg, we had a lot of users in California and in Waterloo, whereas presumably these new users will be much more spread out. So it is a mixed blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, here&#8217;s hoping we change the world \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digg &#8211; Facebook Carpool: the First Useful Facebook Application &#8211; so the Facebook application I&#8217;ve been working on made #1 on digg. not bad. By &#8220;working on,&#8221; I mostly mean giving my opinions and advice, as I don&#8217;t have the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/852\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}