Recently, Clo Willaert , our belgian queen of the blog & organiser of the Girl Geek Dinner group , invited 40 bloggers for a special day event in London. I was honoured to be part of this community beeing able to test a new ground-breaking application for smart phones using Flickr to share photos & Twitter for tips messages. The idea is to be able to follow and contact each other in real time during a Shopping day in London.
Eurostar brought us to London for an exclusive shopping hunt and gave us a number of great advantages. In more than 9 shops in Regent Street, we enjoyed discounts and whole bunch of other advantages : a glass of Champagne in the Swarovski Crystallized Lounge, …
We also followed an unique presentation in the Apple Store. Molly Flat, female blogger for the Guardian and Jess Greenwood of Contagious Magazine, gave us an overview of the top 10 trends of 2009.
As you can see here, this great application contains an interactive map of London where you can see all the participating shops and the precise position of all the 40 bloggers. We can also post messages and pictures with the application and automatically exchange them with the others!
Just listen to an interview about what a Girl Geek really is here:
And now back to online shopping!
The application looks like a very nice mashup of different services like Flickr, Twitter …
I really like the idea of extending an offline activity like shopping into an online environment!
By: Bert Schols on April 20, 2009
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