Werchter Mobile Tourguide

Werchter is great! 4 days of top quality music & entertainment, Belgian beer and one of the best crowds in the world. It's just plain perfect. Or no, nearly perfect... The one thing I hate about festivals is the carrying around of way-too-big and totally impractical guides, schedules and info-brochures.

Not only does it take ages to discover which artist plays where, the (inevitable - it's still Belgium, right) rain and beer (it's still werchter, right) makes it impossible to decipher the letters and numbers after a few hours of partying. This is exactly what causes you to end up at the main stage, thinking you're going to enjoy a good 2 hour set of Digitalism, but eventually find out you're stuck at a 2 hour best-of concert of Neil Young..

Luckily, today I found a solution! Or at least,  I found someone else who did! Wandering around some of my bookmarks, I ended up at Thomas Joos' blog. He's a very talented old friend of mine, who recently graduated and is now working for Boulevart. He created a mobile tour guide for Rock Werchter 2008, suited for all Flash Lite-enabled phones, using the (beta version of the) b.Tween framework (more tech-talk here).

It is the first Flash application that works on the iPhone and the result is truly amazing. Check out the YouTube video:

Not only is it a very functional schedule, it is also a roadmap, covering the whole Werchter-area. So even if you're drunk and it's already dark, you should have no trouble relocating your tent (or someone else's?) ! Download it here!

Congrats and thanks, Thomas!