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05-18-2014, 04:13 AM
Parking App Asks: What's Wrong With Paying for Someone Else's Spot?
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You've circled the block six times. Fifteen minutes have passed. Would you pay to secure someone else's parking spot? A startup called MonkeyParking (http://monkeyparking.strikingly.com/) thinks San Francisco residents will — and it's created an app to prove it.
MonkeyParking is simple to operate: It connects to your Facebook account (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) to create a profile; you then enter the location of where you're parked, or where you want to park. If you’re looking for parking and see a user — k**wn as a "Monkey" — leaving his or her spot, you can start bidding for it, starting at $5. MonkeyParking said the average bid ranges from $5 to $10. Currently, the app is only available in two cities: It launched in San Francisco last month, and in Rome, Italy, on May 11 Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/17/monkeyparking-san-francisco/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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You've circled the block six times. Fifteen minutes have passed. Would you pay to secure someone else's parking spot? A startup called MonkeyParking (http://monkeyparking.strikingly.com/) thinks San Francisco residents will — and it's created an app to prove it.
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