LIVE Air Traffic on Google Earth!

Sergei Burkov · Top Commenter · Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
He-he... Google acquired ZipDash, a startup with technology very similar to Inrix, back in 2005, and let it perish inside (remember Dodgeball, Jaiku, etc.). Now, 6 yrs later, it has to license the technology it once bought. Oh, well, M&A, the most efficient way to destroy companies, and shareholder value...
Reply · 2 · · September 27 at 10:34am

Oleg Zabluda · CEO at ObjectSourcery
How similar ZipDash really was to Inrix i.e. did they have anywhere near "30 million sources", presumably more precise and moving more then people's mobile phones?
Reply · · September 27 at 10:53am

Mark Crady · Google
I founded Zipdash. We thrived within Google.

We launched Google Maps for mobile for seven different mobile platforms, grew usage to many millions of users, localized to 40 languages, launched location data collection which led to My Location, launched traffic on mobile and desktop, received an internal award for our team's efforts, etc.

I left Google two years ago and the traffic service has been offloaded a couple of times in the last few years so I don't know the details behind this deal but my guess is that inrix is happy to have google as a customer and google is happy to get even more data.

BTW, I saw Dodgeball and Jaiku fail up close. In my opinion their failures weren't Google's fault.
Reply · 7 · · September 27 at 11:42am

Ilya Eckstein · San Francisco, California
Mark Crady Oh, so you are the original Google Traffic guy - nice job, colleague!
Reply · · September 27 at 12:23pm
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Cem Argun · Bilkent Üniversitesi
I follow Inrix since 2005. Chairmain & CEO Bryan Mistele got the rights to the patented Microsoft traffic analysis & prediction technology as an exit package, through Microsoft's IP Ventures program, in return for a certain royalty. http://www.inrix.com/news_InrixWSJ_5Oct2005.asp Funny how Google now will exploit this.
Reply · · September 27 at 8:06am

Glenn Mcdonald · Designer/Product Manager at Google
I'm seeing traffic data on Google Maps right now, and have been all summer. In Boston, at least, it doesn't appear to have been removed.
Reply · · September 27 at 10:03am

Sam Krausz
I don't know why, but if you look on their Android Market ratings , thinks are no nice...
Reply · · September 27 at 6:14am

Jasper Alexander Vegt · Top Commenter · Lead Developer/Chief Executive Officer at Contritio (Minecraft Server)
*boost. This is amazing for the rest by the way.
Reply · · September 27 at 6:32am

Clark Li · UCLA
nice. congratulation to Inrix.
Reply · · September 27 at 1:18am

Diganta Sarkar · Top Commenter · Works at Expedia
Wow, I would love to see it on my Android...
Reply · · September 27 at 1:17am

Kevin Foreman · Vice President, Mobile Applications at Inrix, Inc.
Diganta. INRIX has a free app on Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7: http://inrixtraffic.com/
Reply · 1 · · September 27 at 5:57am

Justin Melville · Top Commenter · Windsor, Ontario
Revenue boots!
Reply · · September 27 at 5:23am

ShenTop China · Works at Shentop Information Technology Co., Ltd.
wow, I love to see it if do some business in net .and i know google shentop net can find good news in business.
Reply · · September 27 at 2:25am