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Startups hailing from northern Europe, Canada and the United States \u2026 but the most impressive startup was from Greece.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/taxibeat.com\/\">Taxibeat<\/a>, developed in Athens, helps users find taxis in cities major cities, from Paris, S\u00e3o Paulo and Rio to Bucharest and Oslo \u2013 with more and more cities being added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s easy to use:\u00a0<\/strong>when you launch the app, it locates your position, and when you need to find a cab, it contacts a driver near you. It shows you where the taxi is, what speed it\u2019s arriving at. If it\u2019s too slow, you can call the driver. Both taxis and customers are identifiable, which adds security and quality assurance.<\/p>\n<p>In the first taxi I found with the app, the driver told me that he planned to use the app to work Saturday nights, a shift he normally avoids because of its risks. The wife of a friend said she\u2019d feel safer in an identifiable taxi.<\/p>\n<p>Quality assurance comes from the fact that anyone can rate anyone. Customers rate drivers and vice versa, so it\u2019s easy to find the highest-rated options. The challenge is finding sufficient taxi drivers and customers to achieve the critical mass an app like this needs to really work.<\/p>\n<p>On the startup side, the economic crisis has been a \u201ccompetitive advantage,\u201d says founder Nikos Drandakis. Besides\u00a0 developers not demanding exorbitant salaries, taxi drivers have been happy to leverage smartphones to \u201crecover most of the fares lost because of the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the customer side, outside my own experience using the app, Drandakis says that when the app became popular in Athens, it resulted in taxi drivers becoming much more courteous. They got out of the car to open doors for customers, in the hopes of being rated highly.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to see this in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a lot of good startups at\u00a0LeWeb\u00a0. 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Je le con\u00e7ois comme une tension constante entre deux p\u00f4les d\u2019un m\u00eame probl\u00e8me : CitySmarting ou l\u2019effort pour rendre les villes plus intelligentes gr\u00e2ce, notamment aux technologies de l\u2019information et Participolis, le fait qu\u2019un meilleur futur pour nos villes ne peut \u00e9merger que de notre participation \u00e0 leur conception et \u00e0 leur gestion. Mes articles et chroniques ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s par plus de 100 m\u00e9dias sur quatre continents dont Le Monde, El Pa\u00eds (Madrid), Reforma (Mexico), The Next Web (Amsterdam) et Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo (Br\u00e9sil). J'enseigne aussi \u00e0 la Paris School of International Affairs de l'Institut d'\u00c9tudes Politiques de Paris et \u00e0 la WebSchoolFactory. J\u2019ai donn\u00e9 des cours \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Berkeley et \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Stanford. Je participe en temps qu\u2019expert au r\u00e9seau Netexplo. 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