Cue the trumpets! Waze has set up shop on Café Press and is open for business. We’re offering totebags and t-shirts, hats and mugs, magnets and hoodies, all emblazoned with Wazer, our cute little logo. Plus, we have three different bumper stickers for you to choose from to help spread the word to other drivers in your area. Check back to the store now and then, as we hope to expand the variety of designs available in the future…
Goblins and monsters and pumpkins, oh my! It’s Halloween time and what better way to celebrate than to offer something sweet to our favorite trick-or-treaters out there? How about a $100 iTunes giftcard and an awesome candy goodiebag? Interested? Well, read on…
How to Participate:
1 - Downloaded waze to your phone – you can do so on our download page.
2 – Enter your Twitter account info by visting waze’s ‘Profile’ section, under ‘Settings” in the app once it’s on your phone. Make sure that the feature is turned to ‘on’.
3 – Send a road report by clicking ‘Report’ on the bottom of the main waze screen and following directions from there. Road reports can be anything you’d like to report from the road – hazards, speed cams, police traps, etc.
4 – Done! Your report will be tweeted automatically to your followers, entering you one time in the contest.
The contest begins immediately and the first winner will be picked from road tweets happening from the time of posting until 4am PST on Thursday morning. Each additional winner will be chosen for the following 24 hour periods – 4am PST on Thursday, October 29 through 4am PST on Friday, October 30, and so on, through 4am PST on Sunday, November 2, 2009.
We will announce the winners on Twitter, so make sure you’re already a follower of @waze.
Things to be aware of:
* You must be 18 years of age or older to enter this contest.
* You can tweet via waze reporting more than once per day but these tweets waze-originated tweets will be eligible for that day only – make sure to tweet again after another 24 hour time period opens.
* Winner is responsible for any applicable taxes. Prize listed is subject to its general availability on the market. In the event of non-availability on the market, waze will provide a similar or equal compensation.
* Waze reserves the right under its sole discretion, to cancel, suspend or modify the terms of this contest, in whole or in part; and the right to disqualify any participant in the event of tempering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes which in Waze sole opinion corrupt or effect the fairness, integrity, legality or proper conduct of the contest. In short, bots or any other kind of automated tweets will be disqualified
*** Good luck and we wish you a fun, safe and spirited Halloween! ***
Mashable is on the hunt for the best and brightest of the web & mobile worlds in prep for their 3rd annual Open Web Awards, and we’re asking for your help to get us a good nomination, or two (or three)…:-)
Take a second to click the banners below to nominate us in any, or all, of the categories that you see fit. You can nominate us once per day and log in is easy with your Twitter or Facebook credentials. Big thanks, in advance, for your help – we truly appreciate your support!
Click the image below to nominate us for ‘Best Mobile App’
Click the image below to nominate us for ‘Best Location-Based Mobile App’
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Goodiebag winner @willcwells rockin his waze T
So, the ‘waze across America’ contest recently came to a close and we’re happy to report we had many happy winners in each the first 10 states that reached 100 unique road reports. One randomly-picked winner got their choice of a new iPhone 3GS or MyTouch 3G in each state and the top five road reporters in all ten states got special waze goodie bags, too. (BTW – If you haven’t gotten yours yet, sit tight, they’ll be on their way shortly…)
Here are the states that got to the finish line first: New York, California, Georgia, Texas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois and Florida.
Bummed that you didn’t win? Fear not – a new waze promotion is upon us just in time for Thanksgiving. We’re cooking up something nice, so stay tuned to the blog. Further details to come in the next week or two…
Yeehaw! This week, waze won the overall iPhone category at the 2009 Smaato Mobile Advertising Awards in San Francisco. With more than 250 global nominees, judges deliberated between a diverse range of content to get to their opinion of the most exciting mobile apps out there.
Check out our company in the winner’s circle:
• Overall iPhone category winner: Waze
• Overall Mobile web category winner: Flirtomatic
• Overall Apps category winner: Aloqa
• Microsoft Phone category winner: SPB TV
• Motorola Android category winner: Aloqa
Wazers out there wazing…it’s a beautiful thing. Only just a few months ago when we first launched, you’d be hard-pressed to find tons of people using waze in California’s Bay Area – and look at us now! Above are screenshots taken by a member of our team yesterday showing all the activity that was happening on the road. We’re really happy to see all of you out there – and with many with different moods, no less! Keep on keepin’ on, Wazers. You’re doing us proud. 
If you’re a fan of waze and want to help us reach more drivers out there on the road, take a moment and head over to Hollrr.com, a cool new site devoted to promoting products via word-of-mouth recommendations. Hollrr’s vision is to ‘liberate the world from advertising,’ and it’s a great way to tell others about stuff you’re into while also learning about new products from your friends. To get started, sign up and find your friends via your online address books or search. Once you’ve got everybody, Hollrr! Tell your friends about waze and ask them to check us out and Hollrr back! Note that you can sign in with your Facebook credentials on the top right of the page.
Another similar service, but more specific to the iPhone world, is Appsfire. Appsfire gives people a super easy way to share their favorite iPhone apps with their friends online. All you have to do is install and start the automated apps extractor, visit and bookmark your personal iPhone apps webpage then create a selection of favorite apps to share with your friends via your blog, e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc. If you’re interested in learning more about Appsfire, take a look at their demo video here.
We really appreciate your help!
Join us this Sunday October 11th 2009 at the Windy Hill Preserve. Help provide feedback on Waze and in exchange we’ll bring snacks (aiming for vegan tamales) and kid friendly drinks. Our plan is to meet at 2:00 PM, enjoy the park for a while and then try do a collaborative drive – to see how many Wazer’s we can get in one area.
Here’s information on the location:
http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/windysausal.html
Here’s a bit more detail about the spot:
The east entrance is a parking lot (built in 1999) off Portola Road in Portola Valley. From I 280 in San Mateo County, exit Alpine Road (exit 22). Head west about 3 miles and turn right onto Portola Road. Drive about 1 mile and turn left into the parking lot. This is a good size parking lot (may get crowded on weekends). No entrance or parking fees. Wheelchair-accessible pit toilet, and two designated handicapped parking spots. Trails are wheelchair accessible, but you’ll probably need assistance, and won’t be able to go beyond the junction with Spring Ridge Trail. Maps available at information signboard.
Please feel free to contact us for more details! See you there!
Drop by on your way to work Tuesday morning next week for Blue Bottle Coffee and croissants!
We’ll be at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco at 7:00 AM through to 9:00 AM Tuesday October 13th with coffee and croissants for all Wazer’s in the area – gratis. Here’s where we’re at:
We’ll be the ones parked on the corner with the Waze banner above our heads – look forward to seeing you!
Waze’s logo was recently chosen to be included on Logo Faves, a design inspiration site where some of the best-designed logos around the web are showcased. We’re flattered to be part of the site and ask that you visit our page over there and vote for Wazer, our logo. Also, check out the background on the final design below, created by our very talented designer, Elad Tayar.
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