Configurable Thoughts » Blog Archive » Waze Out. I few months ago, I posted a blog (“Bringing Order to Chaos”) about the inherent power of our hyper-connectivity to bring order to potentially chaotic situations. This hyper-connectivity is the result of the dramatic increase in processing power that we are realizing with microprocessor technology and is giving us the tools we need (we know where you are, how many are in an area, and can get you information at the push of a button) to instantly modify behavior through the proliferation of information. On a recent trip to visit Synopsys customers in Israel, I saw this all come to life in real-time, maybe not completely bringing order to chaos, but certainly reducing chaos.
What is more chaotic than your daily commute? It’s likely many of you reading this already know about and are using this crowd sourcing tool, Waze? Waze leverages the powerful (and expensive) computing, navigation, connectivity, display, and battery power of your smart phone. Privacy issues - waze. Waze has a strong commitment to protecting your privacy and anonymity. Privacy options in the client app By default, Waze is configured to keep your details private. This protection is not perfect due to privacy leakage. The User Manual explains the configuration settings for privacy. Privacy Leakage Privacy leakage is the disclosure and linking of personal information to an apparently anonymous profile. This list of ways you can lose your privacy is intended to be complete, but there may be other ways not yet recorded. Driving location Waze is configured by default to display your location as an anonymous driver.
The location of Wazers is publicly available to other Wazers and on the internet. Even when your location is displayed anonymously, there can be privacy leakage. And if a Wazer comes close enough to see your car and its license plate, that car registration information can be used to collect personal information and identify you. Nickname and Username Twitter Facebook Foursquare. Privacy issues - waze.
Waze has a strong commitment to protecting your privacy and anonymity. Privacy options in the client app By default, Waze is configured to keep your details private. This protection is not perfect due to privacy leakage. The User Manual explains the configuration settings for privacy. Privacy Leakage Privacy leakage is the disclosure and linking of personal information to an apparently anonymous profile. This list of ways you can lose your privacy is intended to be complete, but there may be other ways not yet recorded.
Driving location Waze is configured by default to display your location as an anonymous driver. The location of Wazers is publicly available to other Wazers and on the internet. Even when your location is displayed anonymously, there can be privacy leakage. And if a Wazer comes close enough to see your car and its license plate, that car registration information can be used to collect personal information and identify you. Nickname and Username Twitter Facebook Foursquare. View topic - Extremely disappointed in Waze. I have been using Waze for a couple of months. In that time I have had the program frequently crash, frequently give me directions that were totally absurd, not be able to find my destination, and on and on. I keep waiting for it to get better, but somehow that never seems to happen.
Just today, I took a trip to a restaurant which I have made on Waze many times before, and it keeps trying to route me the long way around. I will be on a road that goes straight to my desination without a turn, and it will tell me to make a turn and then another turn so now I am driving a right triangle to my destination rather than a straight line. Now how dumb is that? Tonight I came home from this restaurant which is about a 5 mile trip with only a few turns. I recommended Waze to my daughter a few weeks ago, who works in downtown Atlanta to use on her new iPhone 4, and the first two times she used it, it got her lost downtown, and she was late for an appointment. Nexus 4 Atlanta, GA. Way to go | Noam Bardin By day, Noam helms the ship over here at waze, functioning as our fearless leader. But at night, once he's back home, the tables are turned. As a husband and father of two young girls, he's outnumbered - even the dog is a girl.
Maybe he likes these kind of challenging odds, having always enjoyed working at early-stage startups, and watching them grow. Prior to waze, Noam served as CEO of Intercast Networks and co-founded Deltathree, Inc. Hailed as one of Business Insider's 100 Stars of Silicon Valley, Noam holds a B.A. in Economics from the Hebrew University and a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. The Byre in Smardale, nr. Crosby Garrett| Property Details | Welcome cottages.
Waze wikipedia. Waze (pronounced as ways) is a GPS-based geographical navigation application program for smartphones with GPS support and display screens which provides turn-by-turn information and user-submitted travel times and route details, downloading location-dependent information over the mobile telephone network.
It was developed by the Israeli start-up Waze Mobile, which was acquired by Google in 2013. History[edit] Waze Ltd. was founded in 2008 in Israel by Uri Levine, software engineer Ehud Shabtai, and Amir Shinar. The company was originally called LinQmap. In December 2011 Waze employed 80 people, 70 at Ra'anana, Israel and 10 in Palo Alto, California.[9][10][11][12] In 2010, the company raised $25 million in the second round of funding.[13] In 2011, the company, which planned to monetize through location based advertising and to expand into Asia, raised an additional $30 million in financing.[14] Takeover by Google[edit] Overview[edit] Safety risk[edit] Patents[edit] U.S.
Licensing[edit] Featured in Mashable’s ‘creative crowdsourcing’ article. Free GPS Navigation with Turn by Turn - Waze |