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A whole new way to visualize traffic with Waze…and it’s gorgeous!!

Melissa — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:21:32 +0000

When you think of Paris, Tel Aviv and Rome you think of bustling cities, beautiful landscapes, amazing people and great food. Put that all together- add cars, roads and of course our most trusty waze you have yourself a recipe for some amazing traffic data. Waze teams up again with the great Nik Hanselmann under the creative likes of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts to make 3 beautiifully crafted videos. You will never look at traffic jams the same.

Waze World Cup Final Update – 4 days left – Tight Competition!

Yael — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:17:38 +0000

USA, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY: The competition is sooooo tight and only 4 days to go!… Give it a last push. The winner will be one of these countries and three happy users from the winning country will soon show off their brand new ipads

Good luck everyone and make sure to drive safe! See you next monday with the final winner announcement.

New Version Featuring Exclusive Moods For Top Scoring Wazers

Yael — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:07:32 +0000

This new version consists mostly of bug fixes and clean ups, but for those of us who work hard to make it to the top weekly charts in our state there’s a cool new feature – Exclusive moods, available just to us! Exclusive moods are Gold, Silver and Bronze wazers that are open only to users that scored the highest on the weekly chart the previous week. If you were a high scorer, you’ll be driving around with this mood for an entire week.

Welcome on board French wazers!

Yael — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:30:42 +0000

Sunday morning, everybody’s napping and newly joined French wazers are cruising, checking out waze.

UK wazers in building momentum

Yael — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:39:14 +0000

Waze ridealong with Palo Alto Police

Di-Ann — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:58:19 +0000

In this interview Waze goes on the road with Michael from the Palo Alto Police Department. Michael used to be a software developer – specializing in maps in fact – and we had a great time driving around Palo Alto and talking about the kinds of data he needed and used every day.

Augmented Reality Developer, Anselm Hook, takes Waze on rides with some of our favorite road geeks and fellow drivers around the Bay Area bringing back their stories. Here at Waze, we love drivers, we want to know how they drive and why, where they’re going and what awaits them. Every driver has their own adventure. Anselm will be posting several driver reports and we are extending an invitation to any and all Wazers to send us reports from the road!

Anselm says “We wanted to get a sense of what it means to be a driver. What does it mean to need to navigate the road and to understand the road? What tricks and techniques do road warriors use? All of this input helps Waze shape our products in turn. I interviewed a bunch of people who drove every day – ranging from Fedex, to flower truck drivers, to Police. These are their stories.”

What’s it like on your own daily drive, road trip, side street? Send us traffic reports, driving videos, interviews! How do you use Waze? What do you see around you? What are the road conditions like? Post your 3 to 5 minute report from the road and send us the link! diann-at-waze.com

We’ll feature our favorite road reports on our blog, so send us your best drive!

Happy Wazing

Waze Hits The Road with FedEx

Di-Ann — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:42:13 +0000

In this interview Waze goes on the road with Ruben from Fedex to explore his daily drive in and around San Francisco. Augmented Reality Developer, Anselm Hook, takes Waze on rides with some of our favorite road geeks and fellow drivers around the Bay Area bringing back their stories. Here at Waze, we love drivers, we want to know how they drive and why, where they’re going and what awaits them. Every driver has their own adventure. Anselm will be posting several driver reports and we are extending an invitation to any and all Wazers to send us reports from the road!

We’ll feature our favorite road reports on our blog, so send us your best drive!

Happy Wazing

Waze featured in Android Market This Week.

Yael — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:13:02 +0000

Hey Android wazers, remember the days you were the first waze users and there were only a few tens of you Androidians on waze? Well, many many more androidians are joining the waze community right now as waze is being featured on the Market.

Treasure hunt is on, the map packed with wazers

Yael — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:34:29 +0000

Here’s a winner, notifying all through the chit chat

Italy diggs waze. Here’s the map, a few days post-launch – WOW!

Yael — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:02:06 +0000

Waze reached nearly 10,000 downloads on its first day in the Italian Appstore.

Road recording and community activity is in full speed. This is very exciting to us, and to think that there’s not even a base map yet! Oh…. and there seems to be lots of chit chat . This is also an opportunity to apologize for the tech difficulties we’ve been having over the past week. We’re working tirelessly to fix them.

Some great reviews by bloggers. (Here’s the translation for those of us not lucky enough to live in Italy or speak Italian). And very positive reviews on the appstore.

Here’s a great video demonstrating waze in Italian, created by macneo, one of the lead community members in Italy.

The community prepared videos on how to edit the map and is very active in the forum.

International users FYI – we are working on a platform that will allow you to translate waze into any language, except the UI and the Voice prompts. We’ll get it out there as quickly as possible. Upcoming version will have Spanish in it, the following will be open

to any language that the community has translated. If all goes well