As ‘chief technologist’ for the event I wanted to make sure the whole team could report back to base on what’s going on during the 4 day ride. While some of the team have the very latest in mobile communication devices, there are also some old school work horses that just phone and text.
So I went ahead and fired up a virtual mobile number, connected it to the web site using the Esendex API and we were live. I’ve mixed in a Flickr stream as well and very easily we have a live view, updatable by everyone from wherever they are.