Good morning/afternoon/evening Android lovers,

We know it’s taken a while (apologies), but your time to shine is almost here!

Stay tuned, more info on its way early next week…

-All of us @ Waze

Hey there all you CES-bound Wazers!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come on down to North Hall 1101 and check out the latest evolution of Waze: in-car! No, your eyes don’t deceive you– We’re featured in Pioneer’s AppRadio2, a new Android-based dashboard that features Waze in its lineup of nav apps! This is a first, and certainly something to write home about. We also have some Waze team members on-site so you can pick their brains with any questions you may have (if you haven’t already checked the forums of course).

So head on over, and bear witness to what is essentially Waze’s first foray into sans-phone glory. We’ll be just as excited to see YOU!

Hey Wazers-

We’ve got some pretty exciting news for you bay area-based TV watchers out there. Ok, so that might be a little specific for most of you, but if you find yourself getting excited regardless of your locale or which side of the TV-watching fence you sit on, then just go with it. Why?

Because Waze is coming at you live and direct from ABC 7 in San Francisco! That means more reports, better traffic data, and being able to talk about Waze with the general public and have them know what you’re talking about. Take a looksie:

Thanks to all our Wazers out there…wishing you the happiest of new years!

One of the neatest developments in the past year has been getting acknowledged as a top Navigation app on both iOS and Android. And it’s done happened once again! In the 2011 Best App Ever Awards, where we’re up for best Nav app on both platforms. Despite that ‘Ever’ is re-defined yearly, we still think it’d be super cool to snag this distinction and ask that you vote for us, if you think we, indeed, do deserve it. You’ll notice the voting for both platforms is on the same page in two columns, so depending on your level of enthusiasm, at least know that you have the ability to vote in both…

GOOOOOOOOD MOOORNING Wazers!

It’s true that you might prefer to hear that from your witty, attractive, out-of-your-league morning traffic reporter. Well good news, because as of today, there’s a good chance you will.

That’s right, you heard it here first: Waze is officially partnering with ABC & BELO stations nationwide to be a part of the morning traffic! First cities up are San Francisco, Philadelphia, Dallas, & Los Angeles.

What does that mean for you? No more sitting on the sidelines! Join your local news station’s traffic group e.g. ABC7 Traffic Watchers in LA, or WFAA Traffic Spotters in Dallas, and you could have your report read live on TV! That same traffic reporter might even say YOUR NAME. #SomeDreamsAreForReal

And remember- if you want your morning news to start using Waze, then send them a letter, call them, tweet them. Tell them to check out www.Waze.Tv (nifty, eh?)

We’re just happy to deliver your morning awesome.

Wanna see how it works? Lookie lookie:

So, as you know Waze v 3.0 for iPhone has been out a few weeks and we’ve gotten great feedback from many of you, which is great. There were also some more critical comments…questioning our decision to redesign the client and add a few new features, seemingly at the expense of stabilizing our app’s infrastructure – and we take this feedback seriously, especially since they come from some of our most committed users.

In response, Ehud Shabtai, our co-founder and CTO has written up a post in the Waze forum that addresses these issues and gives a bit of a peek ‘behind the curtain’ as to what’s happening on the more technical side of things. If that’s your bag, make sure to read Ehud’s post, and leave  any feedback you may have. Rest assured, we’re listening to everything that you guys have to say!

We’re always checking in to see how we’re doing in the Appstore among our other peers in the Navigation category, but following a real nice feature, we’re not only right at the top of free Navigation, but we’re within the top 25 free apps, Appstore-wide! Pretty darn neat, don’tcha think?

As always, all of our successes are due in great part to the power of our users, and your commitment to our product – so for you help in continuing to spread the word, we’re very grateful, and we’ll do our best to continue to make Waze the absolute best it can be to get you where you need to go…

High fives all around, peoples!

Voila! There she is. The Waze carmount. Isn’t she beautiful?

We’ve been giving these out in goodie bags for a while now, but now’s your chance to snag one for your very own. And for cheap!

We’ve sent a huge stock over to Amazon so all you have to do is click here to pick one up for just five bucks, attach it to your window, and Waze in style, like the best of ‘em.

Note that the cradle area is adjustable so can fit any and all smartphones. Hands-free is the way to go, so get yours ASAP before we run out…

Big congrats goes out to our Facebook fan of the week: Victoria Selfridge! We loved how you engaged with us this week especially the way you shared the photo of us being featured in the app store. Waze to go!

Special shout outs to John Heckendorf, Scott Daly and Bain McLeod who caught our attention this week. Special shoutout to Bain for going over half a million points!

On our Twitter account, Congrats to our winner @MitchSchneider! We couldn’t help but giggle at the Haikus you and @FarhanaRahman wrote us this week.

Special shout outs to @obsolete29, @tech_engineer, @GangrelJedi and @miketempleton who also caught our attention.

If you are a winner we’ll be in touch but if not, don’t worry, every week is a new chance to win

Good luck to everyone this week as our fan and follower of the week contest continues