Welcome to the ShoppersMap Orange County blog homepage. This space is the place where the shops located in Orange County that are part of the shoppersmap network have the opportunity to showcase their business.
Our goal is to provide a community forum in which our stores and the people who love to shop in them can get together and share common interests. Store owners are encouraged to discuss, display and share their items, ideas and expertise and make that information available (via RSS) to the entire blogoshpere.
As the era of "geospatial" tourism begins, we at shoppersmap are pioneering the notion of aggregating the interests of the small business community focused on antiques, vintage, retro and thrift inventory. Unlike "high end" sites like Firstdibs or impersonal mediums like eBay, we are all about the survival and flourishing of our community small businesses in our industry. Unlike City Search or Yelp, we aren't inclusive of every business in every town-we are focused community by community on our narrow niche and are confident we will be an effective filter in bringing together the interests of owners and shoppers alike.
So let's "open the conversation" among the locals, folks anywhere on the planet with similar passions and lovers of the new era of interactive map mashups! All comments and suggestions welcome!