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I agree. Where would you recommend to put the tagline?

Yeah. I agree that it can come off like that.

I just really like the word Jam.

1. Great idea. In fact, a lot of carpool sites have them. That will be a feature to implement in the future. Right now I'm just more tied up with the main features.

2. Yes. I thought a lot about whether I should make this community "profile centric" or "anonymous centric". There seems to be pros and cons in both. It's hard to decide.

Right now, I'm hoping the social circles will be people who like the same musicians.

Maybe uploading user photo?

"I don't think the 'from' field makes an sense in the address sense (unless you are just geocoding to region or something)"

- Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by this.

"Not sure what you are thinking of with respect to a use-case."

- Bands and venues hopefully will create theses event or even use our pre-build calendar. (I plan to create more features on the calendar too.) Then the use-case would be the people who regularity visit band/venue sites. And that way even people with ride space will be reminded about carpooling.

"If I were you I'd spend some time getting REAL events,"

- Totally. I have a few crawlers that get bands, venues, events. I just haven't put them on yet, because I don't know about legality issue.

"Maybe even a screencast of who the actors are"

- Will do.

Thanks for all of the great ideas. Here are my response:

"Have you considered using an api like zvents or upcoming?

- I have. However first, I want JamRides to be adopted by bands and venues, so that then can make or link to their own carpool page like this one:

http://jamrides.com/calendar?pblc_key=6619203945241087998

"Also, you can use google to find the initial location of your users so you could list the events near them" - Definitely. In fact, I did that already. It will look like this: (if you live in berkeley)

http://jamrides.com/j?date=2008-10-31&from=berkeley,+ca

Totally agree. I was just testing the ads. Taking them off now.

I'm the creator of JamRides. This is my first webapp, so please feel free to throw me whatever you can think of, especially the obvious.

FYI, I decided to leave out anything that explains what JamRides is about on the homepage, (check the about section) mainly because I don't expect anyone to come to JamRides through homepage linking. In fact, the main feature of JamRides enables anyone can post carpool links anywhere, so the traffic coming in will should already know what we are about (somewhat).

Does this make sense?

I don't think you can truely learn to be a self-starters. Being a self-starter myself, I have friends who just don't have the drive to do it themselves, even after knowing/seeing that it's the only way to get things done. Thus I'm convinced that this drive is mostly genetic. Plus, isn't the definition of a self-starter someone who accomplishes things on his own without prior instruction? Then being a self-starter is independent of the amount of instructions. If anything I'd throw my kids in public school to make them better self-starters, because self-starters have to learn to keep that drive going even when the mainstream population are followers.

That is not to say you can't learn the trades of being a self-starters, such as discipline, progress logging, mini-goal management, lauch-then-iterate, etc. But that comes with experience. I won't even attempt to teach these things to kids under 12.

This article somewhat touches upon the issue of "bio-programming" but it doesn't give credit where it is due.

People have been studying "bio-compiler/machine code" for decades. The difficulty is that there are many different compilers at work. Just to name a few: protein folding, chemical gradient regulation, inter/intra-cellular signaling, etc. All of which "compiles" chemical composition into actual physical function. But each of the process alone is so complex, it takes years to un-cover a small portion of the black box, not to mention most of these "compilers" are inter-dependent with each other. So it is close to impossible to use the limited knowledge we have un-covered to predict other novel code -> function compilation. I worked in a protein folding lab before. Just to be blunt here, no one really has a clue.