A pé em Londres.

Um app que anda a pé com você em Londres e vai contando, pelo celular, as histórias da cidade. Nesta outra idéia aqui você também pode inserir a sua história na caminhada. Essa iniciativa poderia, sim, inspirar projetos bacanas no DF. Até onde eu sei, não há algo parecido funcionando na cidade. Também nunca ouvi falar que exista em Brasília o projeto Walking Tour (quando o guia turístico apresenta a cidade para você caminhando contigo por ela). Certamente, andar pela "capital dos carros", das avenidas sem esquina,  do sol a pino, do clima seco, precisaria combinar trechos de van e trechos a pé. Mas para conversar com a cidade, não precisa de celular, nem ser turista: quando se anda a pé, por menor que seja o trecho, a cidade, suas criaturas, suas coisas, falam com a gente. Infelizmente, também se ouve os gritos de sempre: falta segurança, falta manutenção das calçadas, falta respeito ao pedestre, falta uma política do andar... 

King's Cross, London - Streetstories: guide to a new Guardian app. 

King's Cross Streetstories is a new immersive audio guide, available for iPhone and Android. It helps you explore the King's Cross area of London -- home to the Guardian's HQ - and discover a wealth of stories about King's Cross, London - Streetstories is a new immersive audio guide, available for iPhone and Android. It helps you explore the King's Cross area of London -- home to the Guardian's HQ - and discover a wealth of stories about the neighbourhood. If you're in King's Cross, your smartphone knows exactly where you are, and plays audio relevant to your location. You can also listen if you're not near King's Cross

- http://www.guardian.co.uk/mobile/streetstoriesi
- Iphone treetstories extra (with 70 stories)
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/kings-cross-london-streetstories/id504574433?mt=8
- Iphone Streetstories (with 10 stories):
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/kings-cross-london-streetstories/id505955550?mt=8
- Android (with 10 stories):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.guardian.GSSKingsCrossLondon

Tagwhat does something similar with stories, videos, pics worldwide.  
Also for iPhone and Android.  
And you can add your stories to any spot on the globe at its publish site.www.tagwhat.com

The Guardian Brings Its Local History to Life With a Walking, Talking App

For Harry Potter fans, King's Cross is where one boards the train for Hogwarts at "Platform 9 3⁄4."For The Guardian's new media mavens, it's the setting for King’s Cross, London – Streetstories, an immersive app featuring an audio guide about the historic area which automatically activates sounds, music and stories relevant to your GPS location. The free mobile app, available for iPhone and Android devices, launches with ten stories, while Sreetstories Extra (available on iOS) has more than 70 stories and two hours of audio material downloadable via Wi-Fi. Why would a newspaper/web brand launch a travel app? It's the brainchild of Francesca Panetta, special projects editor in the Guardian's multimedia department, who envisions Streetstories as a way to bring storytelling to life on a local, vibrant leve. The historic neighborhood, also The Guardian's London home, boasts a colorful history that includes the likes of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. Now, via a mobile app, the Guardian brand can share those stories via non-linear narratives in an experiential, engaging way.“Along York Way, where our building sits, you would have seen cattle being marched down the road from the Caledonian market, once the largest cattle market in Europe. More recently, King’s Cross was a mecca for thousands of clubbers, The Scala screened B-movies and horror films to devoted fans, and an old coal yard was transformed into a peaceful reserve, Camley Street Natural Park,” comments Panetta.The apps were produced in-house in partnership with Calvium, the Bristol-based company behindAppFurnace.It’s a novel application of new technology to an historic locale that’s weathered changes from the original village known as Battlebridge, through a run-down period as a red-light district, and has now become part of one of the largest construction projects in Greater London in the first quarter of the 21st century. Let us know if you've taken it for a spin and what you think.