Music continues to be one of the leading categories for emerging technologies.
This week marked the launch of mashup BandsInTown.
BandsInTown is an online community that lets users track concerts for their favorite bands. BandsInTown imports your music preferences from last.fm, then matches that to concert schedules from your geographic region. The resulting concert cloud helps you find upcoming shows you might not be aware of.
While the cloud can include acts you don't listen to, the larger items match to the ones that show up higher in your last.fm rankings. You can mouse over a link to see their upcoming shows in your area.
Clicking any of the bands brings you to a wiki-styled landing page which shows the upcoming show(s) but also has links to an artist page, maps to the venue and space for additional images or band info. All of these pages are designed for user-generated content.
The event awareness space is attracting attention with sites like eventful, Oodle's Bandtracker and others. What separates BandsInTown is its ability to import your last.fm preferences, its easy-to-navigate tag cloud and its focus on wiki-like features. I'd like to see them add a Facebook plugin to make it easier to share events with friends.
Thanks to Frank Gruber for the heads up on BandsInTown.
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