Monthly Archives: August 2008

Gustav

Our heart goes out to anyone fleeing Hurricane Gustav. We hope our service can help those without their own transportation find a ride to safety.
www.pickuppal.com/pup/erp/hurricane-gustav-rideshare

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How to stirrrr the pot - all in the name of making reasonable ridesharing possible!

Our issue with the OHTB just got mentioned on TechCrunch - and not just any old mention but Mike Arrington posted the article with the following title “More Proof That Canada Hates The Environment“! Well let me tell you that kicked off a heated discussion. So far there are 55 comments on his [...]

More support for PickupPal in Ontario

Here we track stories as they unfold about PickupPal’s fight to change the restrictive Ontario Legislation around carpooling:

Bus firm calls online car pool illegal service

Carpooling company offers illegal service, bus firm complains

Picking on PickupPal

Online Company Under Fire For Offering Carpooling Service

National Post Editorial Board on PickupPal: Carpooling is green and cheap. So why is it [...]

New sites linking to PickupPal

Hitching a ride online | NEWS.com.au
Hitching a ride online | The Courier-Mail
Top 100 Web 2.0 приложений в Австралии Newsland место где …
PickupPal - Connecting Drivers, Passengers and Packages
Viral Enthusiasm » 2007» November» 8
GreenBase: The Intersection of Music & Climate Change
Stephen Johnston FriendFeed
Top 100 Australian Web 2.0
Ottawa | this is mikel.org
From Guster, Green Help For Rock [...]

Gydget

Been playing around with this little widget used by Rehage Entertainment, one of our ERP partners.
They are using this neat new service called Gydget to promote their events from MySpace profile pages:

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The truly selfless and inspiring are all around us

Last week I was with my family up at Red Pine Camp – taking some time off of work and focusing on spending time with my family and my extended friends at our annual week at camp. One of the veteran campers Barry Bickerton came across some cyclists looking at a map not [...]

PickupPal keeps rolling with Foo Fighters and Oasis

It has been a busy summer schedule with concerts and festivals all over North America and the UK and we are gearing up to be at the Virgin Festival in Toronto on September 6th. and 7th. PickupPal is the official ride sharing provider for the Virgin Festival and we will be taking part in [...]


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