This document proposes a centralized database and API for carpooling websites to allow users to search for available rides and access trip details. The API would support authentication, searching for rides by location and date, and fetching individual trip information. This would make it easier for multiple carpool sites to share ride listing data and for applications to access ride availability programmatically.

1. Pooling the Carpool By Anand Subramanian

2. Who Am I? Anand Subramanian TheAnand COO, ayruz Blogger & Marketer TheAnand.com

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8. END USER Carpool Websites Central Database with API

9. The Carpool API JSON based Authentication using OpenID or Facebook Connect Supports search, insert, delete and more…

10. API Search search.php?from=PLACE1&to=PLACE2&datetime=DATE&format=json [{ "id":1548, "description":"Ride from cochin to trissur.", "date":"2009-01-08", "time":"17:00:00", "seats_available":5, "contact":{ "username": "theanand.com", "name": "Anand", "email": "theanand (at) theanand (dot) com", "phone": "Not disclosed" }, "sounce": "carpool.mytechnopark.com", "url":"http://carpool.mytechnopark.com/index.php/lift/tripdetail/p_id/23"},{ ... },{ ... }]

11. API Trip Fetch trip.php?id=ID&format=json { "id":1548, "description":"Ride from cochin to trissur.", "date":"2009-01-08", "time":"17:00:00", "frequency": ["mon","tue","wed","thu","fri"], "preference": ["males", "smoking"], "seats_available":5, "contact":{ "username": "theanand", "name": "Anand", "email": "theanand (at) theanand (dot) com", "phone": "Not disclosed", "url": "http://carpool.mytechnopark.com/user/theanand" }, "sounce": "http://carpool.mytechnopark.com", "url":"http://carpool.mytechnopark.com/index.php/lift/tripdetail/p_id/23"}

12. API Usage User profiles Trip Information And more….. - Coded by Binny V A - www.BinnyVA.com

13. Have a safe ride….. A Proposal for TEN India