The Meetro HQ

The meetro hq has done a bit of “movin’ on up” over the past few months, but until last winter, we were all working/living in the same tiny apartment. Current.tv (some may know as al gore’s network) spent the day with us and did put together a ‘pod’ highlighting a typical day in the life of a meetro hq’r.

Check it out here.

And thanks/welcome to all you new meetro members who heard about us on current.tv.

Happy Summer Solstice 2007 from Dan!

Seems our service provider (where meetro is hosted) is experiencing some downtime at the moment and it’s affecting Meetro and a number of other sites as well. Not sure how soon we’ll have it back up and running, but we’ll post status here as we learn more.

UPDATE 14:46 pst
One server is back up and running, now we’re waiting for a few more.

UPDATE 15:36 pst
We seem to be fully functional again Sorry for the inconvenience. See you on Meetro!

UPDATE 16:10 pst
And they’re down again, it seems to be a power issue.

UPDATE 17:00 pst
and we’re back up

Today starts a new notch in travel adventures. Peter, a fellow meetro hq’r and a co-founder of the inTransit.tv reality based travel adventure is embarking on a cross country trip in 49cc scooters (just picture two dudes cruising down the street at a swift 20mph with whiny scooters under their crotch.) You may be aware of their last adventure from LA to San Diego just a few months back - Paul and Dan joined their brother Peter.

There’s an interesting twist this time around though - it’s a Choose Your Own Adventure, and you get to choose where they head to next!

http://intransit.tv/

For all you geeks out there, Meetro was mentioned again on slashdot linking to a nice write-up over on ExtremeTech. Luckily it’s a friday afternoon, so we’re not getting killed with the webrequests coming over.

Ohh, and we’ve recently been annouced as a webware (c|net) Top 100 finalist for web2.0 companies. Why not vote for us (polls close monday.)

Check out the video to hear a little bit from Paul on the location-aware space as well as learn about the mobile location-aware service offered from loopt (pay service.)

Paul Bragiel, CEO and founder of Meetro, said his tracking technology can find people anywhere in the world using an internet connection.

The difference is, all Meetro users can track each other, whether they are friends or strangers. “You feel an aura. You don’t know the exact location and how many stories up or anything,” said Bragiel. “We keep it as safe as possible for people. And users can opt out of the service, too.”

Meetro also alerts users to nearby businesses.

“We know your profile and where you are at and say here are things that are relevant to you we serve things to you. But, we won’t ruin the user experience.”

More on CBS 5.

It’s that time of year - the bestest day in all of San Francisco, where 100’s of thousands of us gather up to make a run from the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean Breakers.

The rickshaw has been in retirement for the past few months as we had some issues putting all the pieces back together, but we got our needed supplies at the local hardware store, got the rickshaw hosted up in the air, and bolted the carriage back to the wheel base. I’m proud to say that this baby is ready to roll out the shop and hit the San Francisco streets, all 7.46 miles of it!!!
If you’d like to join meetro (and sport your fanny on our rickshaw) meet us at:

• When: Sunday, May 20 @ 8am.
• Where: UPDATED - Mission & 1st Ave, San Francisco, CA (our HQ)

If you’re planning on joining, drop any of us a line on Meetro - and sunday morning, look for the big rickshaw with the meetro signs

Be sure to check out the photos from last years meetro run.

Yes, you heard that right, we’ve released a Universal Binary for all you Intel Mac folks. We wanted to make sure we had kicked the tires on it a bit before making it public.

A few of you may have been prompted to get the new download a few weeks ago, and if you haven’t, well then:
Download Mac Meetro 0.66 now!