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Web In Travel Start-up Pitch Competition!

The Web In Travel (WIT) Start-Up Pitch is part of WIT’s mission to unearth creative ideas in the digital media space and to match entrepreneurs with potential investors.
Held this year from 20 to 23 October 2009, bluewalks was voted as the favourite among the many entires in WIT’s second Start Up Pitch Competition held in [...]

Featured walk: The Cool Walk Around Stockholm City by Preeti Pradhan

This week’s featured walk is also the champion walk for “Where You Walked Last Summer” contest. Remember to click on the points of interests or drag the map
around to explore!
The Cool Walk Around Stockholm City
Congratulation to Preeti Pradhan for the winning iPhone voucher in “Where You
Walked Last Summer” contest. Pretti has been blogging at [...]

Let’s start a walk in bluewalks!

Hello! Hola! Tjena! 你好! こんにちは!
A few days ago, we made a tutorial video (below) to show you how to create a route in bluewalks.

Just like how bluewalkers lily-of-the-valley and Sapphire and have done for their couchsurfing and blog, creating a walk/route can be fun and meaningful.
So, as part of the effort to encourage users [...]

Where you walked last summer update!

Photo taken by: Sameli
Two weeks ago, we opened a contest to find the best summer walk.
You can view the contest ranking here.
As you may know, the contest is only based on popularity of the walk. So, if you want to win the contest, you need to get more votes and views for your submission! Share [...]

Tutorial: Using the bluewalks iPhone app

Now that the long-time waited iPhone app is available on the App Store (and has reached a surprisingly big amount of downloads), let’s see in details what you can do with it. If you don’t have time or prefer moving pictures, we posted a very neat video in previous’s blog post.
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bluewalks mobile on app store!

We are tremendously happy to announce the launch of the bluewalks iPhone Application. It is finally on the App Store!!!
Moving bluewalks to a mobile platform was the most natural move for us and we’ve been working on it for quite a while already. But we’re really happy with the final result [...]

GetSatisfaction helps us take care of your feedback

At Bluewalks, we believe that our community better than anyone else can help us build a better service. That’s why we just finished setting up a GetSatisfaction page. What is Getsatisfaction?

The Forums are here!

Yesterday we finally added the forums to the bluewalks webpage, so you finally have some place where to meet and talk and also tell us your opinion about the site. We’re really looking forward to have your feedback so that we can keep improving the service.
To start, there’s a single forum in english, we’ll add [...]

bluewalks Store

The bluewalks store is here! Now you can get all kinds of bluewalks gear.
This is a first version of the store, so there’s still not that much variety, but we’ll sure be adding more stuff soon! So, if you miss something or have some suggestions, tell us! We’re always happy to get some feedback.
As a [...]

bluewalks API v1.0

We’re really excited to finally announce the first release of the bluewalks API. With this, developers now have access to the same API we use internally for the development of the bluewalks iPhone App. We have also created a developers’ mailing list at api@bluewalks.com.
This first version the API only allows to search and retrieve walks. In [...]