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1. Alex@thetshirtblog

   July 26th, 2007 at 8:29 am

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   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?

2. harper

   July 30th, 2007 at 7:03 am

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   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.