Just last week, our VP Community Geographer, Di-Ann Eisnor, did a great, and lengthy!, interview with Tim over at Geek Free Radio. They covered tons of topics from privacy and safety issues all the way to what’s comin’ up for us over at waze if you wanna sneak peek. Click here to hear the full interview.

Just call us ‘Covergirl’

Nice little shout out from the folks over at Gizmodo Australia, who’ve listed us as one of their ‘Apps of the Week.’ Here’s what they had to say about us, below. We’ve never been called a ‘light-hearted navigation app’ before, but we like it! Hee hee

“Waze, the free, light-hearted turn-by-turn navigation app, just got its upgrade to 2.0, and it’s a more viable replacement for the Navigons and Telenavs of the world than ever. In addition to being generally snappier and shinier, Waze 2.0 adds a neat group feature for organising carpools and a system of rankings and achievements, you know, for making your commute fun. Wonderfully free.”

In today’s Technology section of the New York Times, our CEO, Noam Bardin, gives his response to AT&T’s annoucement that they will be discontinuing unlimited data plans.

In addition to being featured in the article’s photo (nice shoes, Noam!), there are also some choice quotes highlighting how this decision will effect app developers, like waze.

“What created this lively app world we are in was the iPhone on one hand, and unlimited data plans on the other,” says Noam. “If people start thinking about how big a file is, or how fast an application is refreshing, that will be a huge inhibitor.”

Click here to read the full article.

Robert Scoble’s recent piece for TechCrunch, “Location 2012: Death of Information Silos,” is an interesting read that namechecks waze a few times in it’s look forward into the future of LBS services. Take a moment and click here to read the full article.

Nice one! Yesterday, Mashable posted a great feature profiling 5 creative startups that use crowdsourcing at their heart, and guess who was listed as number one out of the five? Waze! Here’s what author, Sarah Kessler, had to say about us:

Traffic jams are one place where you can count on people having unexpected free time. Instead of sitting idly, Waze allows users to report traffic problems to other app users.

Even when out of a jam, just having the app open adds map and traffic information. The company creates its maps by tracking GPS on users’ phones. It allows other users in the area to see when traffic slows or if somebody reports an event — like an accident, construction, or speed trap — that might affect a specific route.

Traffic jams are one place where you can count on people having unexpected free time. Instead of sitting idly, Waze allows users to report traffic problems to other app users.

Even when out of a jam, just having the app open adds map and traffic information. The company creates its maps by tracking GPS on users’ phones. It allows other users in the area to see when traffic slows or if somebody reports an event — like an accident, construction, or speed trap — that might affect a specific route.

Click here to read the full article.

We had a little feature in the Automobile section of the New York Times blog area today, and more than a nice little write up, it tickled us that the journalist name-checked Shorty-CM, one of waze’s top power users (and his 178718 points). Welcome to your 15 minutes of fame, Shorty! If you’d like to read the full piece, click here.

Hey now, not too shabby!

USA Today profiled waze today as a ‘Best in Class’ app. Here’s a ‘reprint’ of our nice little feature, found on the left hand column of the main article: 

“Waze (Waze, free), a community-based turn-by-turn navigation system. A clever way to get real-time traffic alerts based on input from others using the same app. “Every now and then an app wows us, and this is one,” Sawyers says.”

We love us some mainstream exposure like this. Hope it brings a new batch of users to the driving communities in your area!

Ian White, the CEO of Urban Mapping, gathered a very compelling panel for his block at this week’s Where 2.0 conference in San Jose – Peter ter Haar, the Head of Products for the UK’s national mapping agency, Tim Trainor, the Head of Geography at the Bureau of Census within the US Government, Steve Coast, the Founder of OpenStreetMap and our very own, Noam Bardin, CEO of waze. Prior to their talk at the show itself, White gathered everyone on a conference call for a little pre-show warm up, and the resulting conversation gives a wide overview of the mapping world and it’s current challenges and opportunities. If that’s your bag, click here to read the full article.