Ben and I released a little project we’ve been working on over the past two weeks: ridepenguin. It’s a mobile webapp for finding cab shares from SeaTac Airport to Seattle/surrounding areas. And I think it beats shouting at a crowd outside the airport.

We’ve been poking around with location-based apps for a while and this is our first to be released. The most fun part of it was something highly reusable that helps quickly decide if two locations are ‘close’ in a practical sense, as in if you went to one would you mind going to the other on the same trip.

The project has already gotten a bit of press on TechFlash and Publicola. Thanks especially to Todd Bishop from TechFlash for talking to Ben about the launch. New media > old media by a long shot.