Featured Project: Walk Score

Walk Score promotes the car-lite lifestyle by providing a personalized walkability rating for any address. Over 2.5 million Walk Scores are served each day.

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Recent Work: City-Go-Round

City-Go-Round helps you find innovative public transit apps in your city. City-Go-Round also shows which transit agencies do and don't provide open data to software developers.

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Front Seat Launches City-Go-Round - 12/10/2009 - City-Go-Round helps you find innovative public transit apps in your city. City-Go-Round also shows which transit agencies do and don't provide open data to software developers. Read the press release or blog post.

Leading Real Estate Sites Add Public Transit from Walk Score - 11/05/2009 - ZipRealty.com and hundreds of other real estate sites add public transit data provided by Walk Score. Read the press release or blog post.

Front Seat Awarded Rockefeller Foundation Grant - 10/06/09 - Front Seat awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant to enhance Walk Score with public transit information and make Walk Score open source. Read the press release or blog post.

Walk Score Now on All Zillow Listings - 2/25/09 - Zillow.com adds Walk Score to each of their 87 million properties. Read the Walk score blog post or the Zillow blog post.

Front Seat Launches ObamaCTO.org - 11/12/08 - ObamaCTO.org helps you set the priorities for our nation's first CTO. We also launched ObamaUrbanPolicy.org at the request of urban planners. Got another suggestion?

City-Go-Round

City-Go-Round helps you find innovative public transit apps in your city. City-Go-Round also shows which transit agencies do and don't provide data to software developers.

Walk Score

Walk Score promotes the car-lite lifestyle. Visitors can type their address to get a personal Walk Score.

ObamaCTO.org

ObamaCTO.org asked people to submit and vote on the priorities for our country's first Chief Technology Officer.

CountMore.org

CountMore.org shows students whether their vote counts more in their school state or home state, and lets them register to vote.

Better Bills

We proposed design improvements to the Seattle utilities bills. We are currently working on letting people compare their energy usage to their neighbors.

Predatory Lending Association

A satirical payday loan industry association with best practices for exploiting the working poor.

Kathy's Climate Kit

Kathy's Climate Kit, a Front Seat spin-off, sells gift boxes with items that help fight climate change.

Open Source Media Project

A team of editors increased the accuracy and global perspective of Wikipedia articles related to the environment and the "War on Terror."

Where's The Truth

One hundred copies of An Inconvenient Truth were distributed with the goal of tracking each DVD as it traveled across the country.

Real MPG

A prototype website for tracking your car's actual miles per gallon against the EPA miles per gallon ratings.

Neutral Fuel

A prototype for a gas station prototype where the carbon offset is priced into each gallon of gasoline.