iCarpool, You Carpool, We All Carpool with iCarpool
by Kristin Underwood, Sacramento, CA 
on 11.14.08
Image source: Flickr (with their never late carpool award)
One more free carpooling tool for helping you get around town without always having to worry about gas or driving, is iCarpool. If you are organizing an event with your favorite greendrinks or meetup.com group, why not link to icarpool.com and encourage all of your attendees to try out the service. Businesses and organizations can also develop their own page on icarpool page setup specifically so that only employees can see others on the list and find groups near their commuting route.
To get stareted, you just need to enter things like trip type (one time, recurring, round trip), starting destination and end point and other preferences needed in a carpool group. The system is developed as a "dynamic" carpool, so unlike traditional carpooling rules where you commit to a set schedule each day for several months, the icarpool system is a one-time, ride-when-you-need-it-type commitment. This application probably works best for folks with iphones or other internet-capable phones, so that you can get transportation on the fly. Though you can certainly setup your carpool ride home while you're sitting at work surfing Treehugger.com
iCarpool groups are available in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia. Its probably best to try several of these carpool applications to see which offer the best routes, most convenient times and coolest group of people to spend an hour or more a day with. iCarpool is not affliated with Apple or any of the iphone, imac, itunes, etc items. :iCarpool
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iCarpool seems to be a very late entry into the carpool marketplace. There doesn't seem to be many people signed up. What about the top 3 nationwide sites like - erideshare.com, carpoolworld.com and ridesearch.com. You will have a better chance going there. Seriously, some of these sites need to pack up. There are too many of them to make a difference if there is not one common database of people.
There actually is an iPhone carpool app called Carticipate already available in 62 countries.
We gave a talk recently on carticipation at the Silicon Valley iPhone Developers' Meetup held at the TIPS Group in Palo Alto November 17th, 2008.
The video is on youtube and can be viewed here, we recommend to watch in "high quality":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaphdB6Wafs
Carticipate is the first and only rideshare application on a location aware mobile platform.