Threadless Order Map… why?

by Andy on July 25, 2007

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File this under pointless but fun: Threadless has a real-time map of orders being placed on their site, I dunno if they’ve had this for ages, but it does feel like they only way that they were going to cram some kind of google maps mashup onto Threadless.

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  • http://www.thetshirtblog.com Alex@thetshirtblog

    I am looking at this in the middle of the night, and the orders are popping up every 10 seconds, and they definitely seem to be looping, so I don’t know how “real time” this can be. Could be a really cool idea for an e-commerce site to have a real time feed of what items are being bought – might be insteresting for shoppers to see and boost sales. Wonder if there are any privacy issues there though?

  • harper

    Hi. i wrote the order map awhile ago. It was a fun little hack. I think it launched a little over a year ago. anyway. it is barely real time. it does loop – but only if there haven’t been many updates. but it is fun.

    In regards to the privacy issues – The original internal version had full addresses and what not. Now it is just the center of the order’s zip code. still a little crazy eh.

    hope you like it.

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