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Hey all,

Just posted a note to the DIYtraffic Dev Group that I'm interested in upgrading that app, to make it something that is really excellent and useful for people. Check out the post, and if you want to get involved let me know.

-j.

All,

It's time to circle back around on DIYtraffic and make it a better app. The first iteration was a good proof of concept (and the first product that DIYcity launched!) but it falls short of what the app could be in terms of usefulness. That's especially true in the face of certain things we've learned through our work on SickCity.

There's a much better app waiting to come out of DIYtraffic, and I want to make that app happen now.

If you want to join in and help out on the next version, drop me a line at geraci at gmail - com and let me know.

Team,

I just wanted to let the Cincinnati people know that I have successfully (knock on wood) set up an instance of the DIYtraffic bot for Cincinnati. It can be found at:

http://twitter.com/traffic_cincy

Like all DIYtraffic bots it's getting it's traffic data from Yahoo. Also, it will respond to driect messages with traffic info on specific streets (if there is any). I've also plugged it into twittbot.com so it will re-tweet @replies it gets.

If you're on twitter, check it out. So far it hasn't tweeted anything about traffic, because I don't think there are any accidents or anything in our area.

I'll keep you posted on how it goes if anything of interest happens with this.

~Dave